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Malin, Yonatan

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  • music theory, music analysis, rhythmic theory, music and text, song analysis, German Lied, Jewish music, klezmer music, schema theory, analytical approaches to world music

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  • JWST 4122 - Music in Jewish Culture
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
    Introduces students to a wide range of musical styles, traditions, genres, performers, composers, events and works that are part of Jewish culture, focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Provides tools for understanding music on its own and in connection with issues of identity, diaspora, memory and liturgy. Includes opportunities for creative and critical engagement with Jewish music. Same as MUSC 4122.
  • MUEL 1081 - Basic Music Theory
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Summer 2023
    Introduction to music notation, meter and rhythm, scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, fundamentals of harmonic progression, voice leading, aural skills and composition. For nonmusic majors who have little or no previous background in the subject.
  • MUSC 1101 - Semester 1 Theory
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    Introduces the fundamentals of diatonic harmony and voice leading, focusing on model composition (including one-, two- and four-voice writing) and analysis of excerpts from music literature. Offered fall only.
  • MUSC 1111 - Semester 2 Theory
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
    Continuation of MUSC 1101. Explores principles of harmony, voice leading and form. Continues emphasis on both model composition and analysis. Introduces chromatic elements (such as applied dominants and modulation), harmonic syntax and structural analysis of excerpts from music literature. Offered spring only.
  • MUSC 4122 - Music in Jewish Culture
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
    Introduces students to a wide range of musical styles, traditions, genres, performers, composers, events and works that are part of Jewish culture, focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Provides tools for understanding music on its own and in connection with issues of identity, diaspora, memory and liturgy. Includes opportunities for creative and critical engagement with Jewish music. Same as JWST 4122.
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