The practical study of small ensemble performance, including public presentations and group recitals. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement interview required. Small Ensembles attempts to accommodate everyone but is not a course to learn an instrument for the first time.

The continuing development of musicianship through music-making and creation, including elementary harmony, musical forms, introductory analytical and compositional techniques, and aural training.

Building upon Developing Musicianship, this course involves further study of musicianship through music-making and creation, with increased emphasis on composition. The course will provide theory and formal analysis, dictation, notation methods, and ear-training skills.

Our local communities are rich with music-making engagement. Students will critically examine community music in the GTA through the lenses of intergenerational music-making, music and social change, music and wellbeing, and interdisciplinary musical engagement. Off-campus site visits are required.

This course extends the examination of theories and practices covered in MUZA02H3. Students will develop deeper understandings of how music can be used for therapeutic and non-therapeutic purposes. Off-campus observations and musical participation outside of class time are a requirement of this course.

This course examines the synergistic relationship between the moving image and music and how these synergies result in processes of meaning-making and communication. Drawing on readings in cultural theory, cultural studies, musicology and film studies, the course considers examples from the feature film, the Hollywood musical, and the animated cartoon.

This course examines the unique role of music and the arts in the construction and maintenance of transnational identity in the diaspora. The examples understudy will cover a wide range of communities (e.g. Asian, Caribbean and African) and places.

A history of jazz from its African and European roots to present-day experiments. Surveys history of jazz styles, representative performers and contexts of performance.

An investigation into significant issues in music and society. Topics will vary but may encompass art, popular and world music. Issues may include music’s relationship to technology, commerce and industry, identity, visual culture, and performativity. Through readings and case studies we consider music's importance to and place in society and culture.

Students will write original works for diverse styles and genres while exploring various compositional methods. The class provides opportunities for students to work with musicians and deliver public performances of their own work.

This course will explore various techniques for digital audio production including recording, editing, mixing, sequencing, signal processing, and sound synthesis. Students will develop creative skills for electronic media through theoretical, aesthetic, and practical perspectives.

This course will explore music production and sound design techniques while examining conceptual underpinnings for creating works that engage with space and live audiences. Students will develop creative skills for electronic media through theoretical, aesthetic, and practical perspectives.

This course examines critical issues of music technology and the ways in which digital technology and culture impact the ideologies and aesthetics of musical artists. Students will become familiar with contemporary strategies for audience building and career development of technology-based musicians.

The practical study of instrumental ensemble performance in the Concert Band setting. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement interview required. Concert Band attempts to accommodate everyone, but is not a course to learn an instrument for the first time.

The practical study of instrumental ensemble performance in the Concert Band setting. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement interview required. Concert Band attempts to accommodate everyone, but is not a course to learn an instrument for the first time.

The practical study of vocal ensemble performance in the Concert Choir setting. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement Interview required. Concert Choir attempts to accommodate everyone.

The practical study of vocal ensemble performance in the Concert Choir setting. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement Interview required. Concert Choir attempts to accommodate everyone.

The practical study of instrumental ensemble performance in the String Orchestra setting. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement interview required. String Orchestra attempts to accommodate everyone, but is not a course to learn an instrument for the first time.

The practical study of instrumental ensemble performance in the String Orchestra setting. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement interview required. String Orchestra attempts to accommodate everyone, but is not a course to learn an instrument for the first time.

The practical study of small ensemble performance, including public presentations and group recitals. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement interview required. Small Ensembles attempts to accommodate everyone, but is not a course to learn an instrument for the first time.

The practical study of small ensemble performance, including public presentations and group recitals. Students are normally expected to complete both Fall and Winter sessions in the same ensemble. Placement interview required. Small Ensembles attempts to accommodate everyone, but is not a course to learn an instrument for the first time.

The investigation of an area of current interest and importance in musical scholarship. The topic to be examined will change from year to year and will be available in advance on the ACM department website.

Popular music, especially local music, are cultural artifacts that shape local communities and the navigation of culturally hybrid identities. Music is also a significant technology of “remembering in everyday life,” a storehouse of our memories. In this course we examine acts of popular music preservation and consider questions such as: what happens when museums house popular music exhibitions? Who has the authority to narrate popular music, and how does popular music become a site of cultural heritage? Throughout this course, we will work with a notion of “heritage” as an act that brings the past into conversation with the present and can powerfully operate to bring people together while simultaneously excluding others or strategically forgetting. We will spend time with bottom-up heritage projects and community archives to better understand how memory is becoming democratized beyond large cultural institutions. As more and more cultural heritage becomes digitally born, new possibilities and new risks emerge for the preservation of popular music cultures.

Through advanced studies in community music, students will combine theory and practice through intensive seminar-style discussions and an immersive service-learning placement with a community music partner. Off-campus site visits are required.

This course will help students develop their self-directed projects that will further their research and interests. This project is intended to function as a capstone in the Major program in Music and Culture, reflecting rigorous applied and/or theoretical grounding in one or more areas of focus in the Music and Culture program.

A directed research, composition or performance course for students who have demonstrated a high level of academic maturity and competence. Students in performance combine a directed research project with participation in one of the performance ensembles.
Note: Students must submit a proposed plan of study for approval in the term prior to the beginning of the course, and must obtain consent from the supervising instructor and the Music Program Director.

This course introduces basic hardware and software for new media. Students will learn basics of HTML (tags, tables and frames) and JavaScript for creation of new media. Discusses hardware requirements including storage components, colour palettes and different types of graphics (bitmap vs. vector-based). Students will be introduced to a variety of software packages used in new media production. This course is taught at Centennial College.

This course enables students to develop strong written communications skills for effective project proposals and communications, as well as non-linear writing skills that can be applied to a wide range of interactive media projects. The course examines the difference between successful writing for print and for new media, and how to integrate text and visual material. This course is taught at Centennial College.

This course introduces the fundamentals of two-dimensional design, graphic design theory, graphic design history, colour principles, typographic principles and visual communication theories applied to New Media Design. Working from basic form generators, typography, two-dimensional design principles, colour and visual communication strategies, learners will be introduced to the exciting world of applied graphic design and multi-media. This course is taught at Centennial College.

This course introduces students to the discipline of user interface and software design, and in particular their impact and importance in the world of new media. The course uses theory and research in combination with practical application, to bring a user-centred design perspective to developing new media software. This course is taught at Centennial College.