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Music and Technology: Live Electronics Performance Practices, Spring 2011
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This course is a creative, hands-on exploration of contemporary and historical approaches to live electronics performance and improvisation, including basic analog instrument design, computer synthesis programming, and hardware and software interface design.

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Career and Technical Education
Creative and Applied Arts
Electronic Technology
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ariza, Christopher
Date Added:
01/01/2011
Music on the Move
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Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
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Textbook
Provider:
University of Michigan
Author:
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Date Added:
02/14/2022
Playwrights' Workshop, Spring 2012
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This course provides continued work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained pieces in weekly workshop meetings, individual consultation with the instructor, and in collaboration with student actors, directors, and designers. Fully developed scripts are eligible for inclusion in the Playwrights' Workshop Production.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Alan Brody
Date Added:
01/01/2012
Playwriting I, Spring 2005
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This course includes an introduction to the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly exercises and work on a sustained piece, students explore the problems of scene structure, action, and their relation to the dialogue. Class meetings include examination of produced playscripts and discussion of student work.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Harrington, Laura
Date Added:
01/01/2005
Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context
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Welcome to Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context! Although this book is intended primarily for use in the college music appreciation classroom, it was designed with consideration for independent learners, advanced high school students, and experienced musicians. That is to say, it includes enough detail that expert guidance is not required and is written using broadly-accessible language. At the same time, it addresses advanced topics and positions music as a serious object of study.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
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Textbook
Provider:
University of North Georgia
Author:
Esther Morgan-Ellis
Date Added:
02/14/2022
Seminar on Deep Engagement, Fall 2004
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Innovation in expression -- as realized in media, tangible objects, and performance, and more -- generates new questions and new potentials for human engagement. When and how does expression engage us deeply? While "deep engagement" seems fundamental to the human psyche, it is hard to define, difficult to reliably design for, and hard to critically measure or assess. Are there principles we can articulate? Are there evaluation metrics we can use to insure quality of experience? Many personal stories confirm the hypothesis that once we experience deep engagement, it is a state we long for, remember, and want to repeat. We need to better understand these principles and innovate methods that can insure higher-quality products (artifacts, experiences, environments, performances, etc.) that appeal to a broad audience and that have lasting value over the long term.

Subject:
Anatomy/Physiology
Creative and Applied Arts
Life Science
Performing Arts
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Breazeal, Cynthia
Davenport, Glorianna
Date Added:
01/01/2004
Shakespeare, Film and Media, Fall 2002
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Investigates relationships between the two media, including film adaptations as well as works linked by genre, topic, and style. Explores how artworks challenge and cross cultural, political, and aesthetic boundaries. Topic for Fall: Shakespeare, Film, and Media. Meets with CMS.840, but assignments differ. Filmed Shakespeare began in 1899, with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree performing the death scene from King John for the camera. Sarah Bernhardt, who had played Hamlet a number of times in her long career, filmed the duel scene for the Paris Exposition of 1900. In the era of silent film (1895-1929) several hundred Shakespeare films were made in England, France Germany and the United States, Even without the spoken word, Shakespeare was popular in the new medium. The first half-century of sound included many of the most highly regarded Shakespeare films, among them -- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Henry V, Orson Welles' Othello and Chimes at Midnight, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, Polanski's Macbeth and Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. We are now in the midst of an extremely rich and varied period for Shakespeare on film which began with the release of Kenneth Branagh's Henry V in 1989 and includes such films as Richard Loncraine's Richard III, Julie Taymor's Titus, Zeffirelli and Almereyda's Hamlet films, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and Shakespeare in Love. The phenomenon of filmed Shakespeare raises many questions for literary and media studies about adaptation, authorship, the status of "classic" texts and their variant forms, the role of Shakespeare in youth and popular culture, and the transition from manuscript, book and stage to the modern medium of film and its recent digitally inflected forms. Most of our work will involve individual and group analysis of the "film text" -- that is, of specific sequences in the films, aided by videotape, DVD, the Shakespeare Electronic Archive (http://shea.mit.edu), and some of the software tools for video annoatation developed by the MIT Shakespeare Project under the MIT-Microsoft iCampus Initiative. We will study the films as works of art in their own right, and try to understand the means -- literary, dramatic, performative, cinematic -- by which they engage audiences and create meaning. With Shakespeare film as example, we will discuss how stories cross time, culture and media, and reflect on the benefits as well as the limitations of such migration. The class will be conducted as a structured discussion, punctuated by student presentations and "mini-lectures" by the instructor. Students will introduce discussions, prepare clips and examples, and the major "written" work will take the form of presentations to the class and multimedia annotations as well as conventional short essays. The methodological bias of the class is close "reading" of both text and film. This is a class in which your insights will form a major part of the work and will be the basis of a large fraction of class discussion. You will need to read carefully, to watch and listen to the films carefully, and develop effective ways of conveying your ideas to the class.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Literature
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Donaldson, Peter Samuel
Date Added:
01/01/2002
Sound Reasoning
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Sound Reasoning is a web-based, introductory music appreciation course. It offers a new approach to music appreciation for adults, focusing on style-independent concepts. While the course concentrates primarily on Western classical and modern music, the concepts that are introduced apply to music of any style or era. The goal of "Sound Reasoning" is to equip you with questions that you may ask of any piece of music, thereby creating a richer and more comprehensive understanding of music both familiar and unfamiliar. Here are some additional features of the course. "Sound Reasoning" is completely listening based. No ability to read music is required. The course assumes little or no musical background. A minimum of terminology is invoked. Musical examples are interpolated directly into the text. The course is interactive. A "listening gallery" with exercises follows each module, so that you may practice and refine your listening skills. The modules may be studied in sequence or individually. You may easily print a .pdf of any module. "Sound Reasoning" is designed as both a stand-alone, self-paced course as well as a supplement to existing university classes.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Rice University
Author:
Anthony Brandt
Robert McClure
Date Added:
08/13/2020
Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Company, Spring 2014
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Taking as its starting point the works of one of Britain's most respected, prolific—and funny—living dramatists, this seminar will explore a wide range of knowledge in fields such as math, philosophy, politics, history and art. The careful reading and discussion of plays by (Sir) Tom Stoppard and some of his most compelling contemporaries (including Caryl Churchill, Anna Deveare Smith and Howard Barker) will allow us to time-travel and explore other cultures, and to think about the medium of drama as well as one writer's work in depth. Some seminar participants will report on earlier plays that influenced these writers, others will research everything from Lord Byron's poetry to the bridges of Konigsberg, from Dadaism to Charter 77. Employing a variety of critical approaches (both theoretical and theatrical), we will consider what postmodernity means, as applied to these plays. In the process, we will analyze how drama connects with both the culture it represents and that which it addresses in performance. We will also explore the wit and verbal energy of these contemporary dramatists…not to mention, how Fermat's theorem, classical translation, and chaos theory become the stuff of stage comedy.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Diana Henderson
Diane Henderson
Date Added:
01/01/2014
Studies in Drama: Too Hot to Handle: Forbidden Plays in Modern America, Fall 2008
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Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that censors content. So plays have had more freedom to explore and to transgress normative culture. Yet censorship of the theater has been part of American culture from the beginning, and continues today. How and why does this happen, and who decides whether a play is too dangerous to see or to teach? Are plays dangerous? Sinful? Even demonic? In our seminar, we will study plays that have been censored, either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists). We'll look at laws, both national and local, relating to the "obscene", as well as unofficial practices, and think about the way censorship operates in American life now. And of course we will study the offending texts, themselves, to find what is really dangerous about them, for ourselves.

Subject:
Creative and Applied Arts
Gender Studies
Language, Philosophy, and Culture
Literature
Performing Arts
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Anne
Fleche
Date Added:
01/01/2008
Studies in Western Music History: Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Music History, Spring 2012
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The disciplines of music history and music theory have been slow to embrace the digital revolutions that have transformed other fields' text-based scholarship (history and literature in particular). Computational musicology opens the door to the possibility of understanding - even if at a broad level - trends and norms of behavior of large repertories of music. This class presents the major approaches, results, and challenges of computational musicology through readings in the field, gaining familiarity with datasets, and hands on workshops and assignments on data analysis and "corpus" (i.e., repertory) studies. Class sessions alternate between discussion/lecture and labs on digital tools for studying music. A background in music theory and/or history is required, and experience in computer programming will be extremely helpful. Coursework culminates in an independent research project in quantitative or computational musicology that will be presented to the class as a whole.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Michael Scott Cuthbert
Date Added:
01/01/2012
Studio Seminar in Public Art, Spring 2006
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Focuses on the production of visual art for public places outside the gallery/museum context. Readings and discussions that engage aesthetic, social, political, and urban issues relevant to this expanded public context complement studio production. Traditional approaches of enhancement and commemoration are contrasted to more temporal and critical methodologies. Historical models are studied and discussed, including Russian Constructivist experiments, the Situationists, Conceptual Art, and more recent interventionist tactics.

Subject:
Art History
Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Muntadas, Antonio
Date Added:
01/01/2006
A Survey of Form in Music for the College Classroom
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A Survey of Form in Music for the College Classroom is a concise and practical text for use in undergraduate music form and analysis classes. It is an extension of A Survey of Form in Music for the College Classroom, a text for freshman and sophomore music theory courses, and shares two chapters – Cadences and Small-Scale Form and Binary and Ternary Form – with that text.

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Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
09/28/2022
A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom: Chromatic Harmony 1
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A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom is a concise, practical, and readable text and workbook for use in the freshman and sophomore music theory curriculum.

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Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
12/18/2021
A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom: Chromatic Harmony 2 and 20th Century Music
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A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom is a concise, practical, and readable text and workbook for use in the freshman and sophomore music theory curriculum.

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Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
12/18/2021
A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom: Diatonic Harmony
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A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom is a concise, practical, and readable text and workbook for use in the freshman and sophomore music theory curriculum.

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Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
12/16/2021
A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom: Fundamentals
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A Survey of Music Theory for the College Classroom is a concise, practical, and readable text and workbook for use in the freshman and sophomore music theory curriculum.

Subject:
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Stephen Emmons
Date Added:
09/05/2021
TA 121 - Oral Interpretation of Literature - OER Course
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Students will be able to foster an appreciation of literature and develop creative skills in public speaking and performance. Students will analyze various literary forms (poetry, novels, plays, letters, diaries, etc.) as texts for oral presentation. Students will explore oral traditions and other nonliterary sources and events as oral presentation material. Class exercises introduce vocal, physical and other speaking techniques to effectively communicate a point of view. Recommended: College-level reading and writing skills are highly recommended for success in this course.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
Linn-Benton Community College
Author:
Tinamarie Ivey
Date Added:
06/03/2021
TA 147 -  Introduction to Theater
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A comprehensive introduction to the art, history and workings of the theater. Students will be given a broad and general background in theater including production elements (lights, sound, sets, costumes, make-up, etc...) of acting, theater history and criticism. Students will attend live performances, view videos of plays and write reviews of live and filmed theater. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Develop a working definition of theatre. Identify the roles of theatre practitioners. Identify the basic structure of a play script. Apply the basic criteria for theatre criticism. Identify the various theatre genres. Identify and describe the functions and use of different lighting, sound and other stage equipment. Examine the values within the range of the human experience and its impact in the expression of Theater.

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Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Linn-Benton Community College
Author:
Dan Stone
Tinamarie Ivey
Date Added:
06/03/2021
TA 240 - Creative Drama for Classroom - OER Course
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This course is designed to train prospective teachers, theatre practitioners and those interested in broadening their skills in the of leading creative drama sessions within the classroom, studio or recreational facility. Class activities are designed to support curriculum development as well as promoting drama as an art and discipline. Through active learning students explore theories and concepts of Creative Drama practices that are used in the development of curriculum-based lesson plans. Creative Drama focuses on process.

Subject:
Creative and Applied Arts
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Linn-Benton Community College
Author:
Tinamarie Ivey
Date Added:
06/03/2021