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An exciting and diverse range of instrumental music is welcome at Stanford. In over 150 concerts a year, students, faculty, and guest artists perform music from around the world. The instruments and styles taught include Western classical, jazz, calypso, taiko, and Chinese traditional, among others. Participation in all instrumental ensembles, lessons, and activities is available by audition to students in any major. Some ensembles are open to community members as well.
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MUSIC 160B. Stanford New Ensemble
Performing compositions of the 20th century, recent works of this century, and new works by Stanford faculty and student composers. Musicians collaborate with composers and artists visiting and performing at Stanford. One concert per quarter.
MUSIC 153. Online Jamming and Concert Technology
Today's vast amount of streaming and video conferencing on the Internet lacks one aspect of musical fun and that's what this course is about: high-quality, near-synchronous musical collaboration. Under the right conditions, the Internet can be used for ultra-low-latency, uncompressed sound transmission. The course teaches open-source (free) techniques for setting up city-to-city studio-to-studio audio links. Distributed rehearsing, production and split ensemble concerts are the goal. Setting up such links and debugging them requires knowledge of network protocols, network audio issues and some ear training.
MUSIC 6F. Art is My Occupation: Professional Development in Music
This course is designed for students wishing to explore their personal and artistic identities as they embark on careers in performance and/or music industry. Weekly guest speakers provide real world insights on topics related to professional advancement. Open to majors and non-majors.
MUSIC 70: Stories and music of refugees
As part of a creative project to gather cultural materials of people who inhabited the shores of the Mekong River, this course will combine ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural history with creative projects based upon gathering and compiling first hand materials through interviews and recordings of people around the Bay Area, and perhaps beyond, who were transplanted from their native homes in the Mekong region.
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