Department Materials

AMUS 100 Placement Test
Music Theory Placement Test

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Music Program Requirements for:

General Program
Music Minor
Composition, Musicology, or Theory
Conducting
Performance
Vocal Performance

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UAlbany's Alma Mater (sung by the Chamber Singers)
College of the Empire State (music and lyrics to UAlbany's Alma Mater)

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UAlbany's Fight Song (sung by the Earth Tones)
Purple and Gold (music and lyrics to UAlbany's Fight Song)

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Syllabus for Professor Janower's AMUS 360: Conducting I

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Materials for Professor Robert Gluck's courses:

AMUS/AAFS 209: Black American Music
AMUS/AAFS 209 Syllabus
Olly Wilson, "Black Music as an Art Form"
Thomas A. Parham, "Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence"
Kevin Fellezs, "Emergency! Race and Genre in Tony Williams's Lifetime"
Scott McFarland, "Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Harmonies"
Michael Veal, "Miles Davis's 'On the Corner'"
Robert Gluck, "What is Funk"
Greg Tate, "Jimi Hendrix"

AMUS 426: Music Composition in Electronic Media I
AMUS 426 Syllabus
Freeware & Shareware Audio Applications
Robert Gluck, "The Nature and Practice of Soundscape Composition"

AMUS 427: Music Composition in Electronic Media II
AMUS 427 Syllabus

AMUS 429: Seminar in Musical Improvisation
AMUS 429 Syllabus
Robert Gluck, "Live electronic music performance: innovations and opportunities"
Alvin Curran, "On Spontaneous Music"
Richard Teitelbaum, "Improvisation, Computers and the Unconscious Mind"
George E. Lewis, "Improvisation and the Orchestra: A Composer Reflects"