Bruce Campbell's Home Page

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an Associate Professor
- - "since 1985" - -

OFFICE LOCATION: 413-MPB

TELEPHONE: 517.353.6607

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OFFICE HOURS (Fall '06): (view complete schedule)

MONDAY & TUESDAY 3-4pm; FRIDAY 11.30am - 12.20 pm

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Preliminary Information for All Classes Taught by Assoc. Prof. Bruce Campbell

Policies about Attendance and Assignments

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Academic Year 2006-07

INCOMING FRESHMAN!

The most practical preparation for basic theory that you can work on over the summer is improving your facility in note-reading of treble and bass clefs, and thorough knowledge of scales and arpeggios. It is possible to incorporate daily review of these important elements in your daily practice routine for any instrument or voice.

If you are not a pianist (and most musicans aren't), consider spending 15 minutes each day playing music in two clefs at once. A beginning piano method or a hymnal will provide plenty of useful material. A serviceable synthesizer is available very inexpensively. It will be very useful in your dorm room for written theory exercises throughout your college career.

The purpose of music theory is to help you "hear" (perceive, analyze and interpret) music more effectively. Eventually you will develop the skill of looking at music notation and knowing how it sounds -- until then, it is crucial that you critique your written exercises by ear, so basic keyboard "know-how" is vital.

Fall Semester 2006 * * COURSES * *

MUS 180 Fundamentals of Music (sections 4, 5 & 6) (meets in room 103-P)

REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Tonal Harmony, FIFTH Edition, by Stefan Kostka & Dorothy Payne;
- Audio CDs for Tonal Harmony;
- Workbook for Tonal Harmony.
LECTURES: Monday, Wednesday: 1.50 - 2.40pm
LAB SESSIONS on Fridays, all meet in room 102-P
- section 4, 10.20am
- section 5, 11.30am
- section 6, 1.50pm

MUS 870 Contrapuntal Techniques I (meets in room 419-P)

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 12.40 - 1.30pm
General Description

MUS 872 Tonal Forms (meets in room 419-P)

Tuesday, Thursday: 1.50 - 2.40pm

Spring Semester 2007 * * COURSES * *

MUS 181 Musicianship I (meets in room 103-P)

REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Tonal Harmony, FIFTH Edition, by Stefan Kostka & Dorothy Payne;
- Audio CDs for Tonal Harmony;
- Workbook for Tonal Harmony.
LECTURES: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 1.50 - 2.40pm
LAB SESSIONS on Fridays, all meet in room 102-P
- section 4, 9.10am
- section 5, 10.20am
- section 6, 11.30am
BLANK MUSIC MANUSCRIPT PAPER in PDF format

MUS 871 Contrapuntal Techniques II (meets in room 419-P)

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 12.40 - 1.30pm

Some Useful Observations about Academic Success from Dr. Ralph E. Taggart, of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Department of Geological Sciences at MSU

Courses available for graduate credit

Courses that have been taught recently by Campbell are shown in the table below.
The courses listed have been assigned to Campbell for academic years 2002-03 through 2005-06.
"YES" or "no" indicate his course assignment for the particular semester that is given at the top of the column.
If a rectangle is empty, it means that the course is not scheduled to be taught by anyone that semester.

NOTE: If you are enrolled in a graduate program in the School of Music, you took a Graduate Orientation (Placement) Exam before signing up for any theory courses. You may have been advised to enroll in MUS 200 and/or MUS 201 prior to or along with other theory courses. It's worthwhile to speak with an advisor, however, about a sensible sequence.

MUS
  Fall '02
  Spr '03
  Fall '03
  Spr '04
  Fall '04
  Spr '05
  Fall '05
  Spr '06
  Fall '06
  Spr '07

  480 18th-Century Counterpoint
YES
YES
no
no
  no
  no
no
no
no

  870 Contrapuntal Techniques I.
YES
     YES
YES
YES

  871 Contrapuntal Techniques II.
YES
YES
YES
YES

  872 Tonal Forms
YES
YES   YES
YES
YES

  874 Schenkerian Analysis
no
no
no
no
no

  972 Analytical Studies
YES
no
no

Teaching assignments are subject to change. Watch this space!

Descriptions of graduate courses previously taught by Campbell:

MUS 480 Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint

MUS 870 Contrapuntal Techniques I.

MUS 874 Schenkerian Analysis

MUS 973 Analytical Studies II.

MUS 975 Computer Applications in Music

OTHER PAGES

Distribution of grades in recent years of courses taught by Campbell

Requesting a Letter of Recommendation

Why Music Theory? -- A Little Story About Joshua Trees

What is a "shibboleth" and what does it have to do with music theory?

Basic Nomenclature in MusicTheory

Chromatic Chords (Neapolitan and Augmented-Sixths)

Quotations from the works of Heinrich Schenker

An American Mosaic, a recent CD of flute & harp music including Campbell's NOCTURNE

A literary passage about joy and courage from Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey.

Quotations from the works of John Muir

Some collected aphorisms that may be thought-provoking

. . . and some humor.

CAMPUS LINKS

Search MSU database for E-mail addresses

University Final Examination Policy & Schedule

MSU Fine Arts Library

An Introduction to Cooperative Learning

MUSIC LINKS

Jokes About Musicians

"Classical" Music Network

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)

College Music Society (CMS)

Society for Music Theory (SMT)

Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI)

Downloadable Music Theory Software (Atonal set theory, Ear-training, Notation)

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	"No football fan has ever found that his enjoyment of the game is impaired by knowing the rules."
	--Ernst Krenek
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MUS	Fall '02	Spr '03	Fall '03	Spr '04	Fall '04	Spr '05	Fall '05	Spr '06	Fall '06	Spr '07
480 18th-Century Counterpoint	YES	YES	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
870 Contrapuntal Techniques I.			YES		YES		YES		YES
871 Contrapuntal Techniques II.				YES		YES		YES		YES
872 Tonal Forms	YES		YES		YES		YES		YES
874 Schenkerian Analysis	no		no		no		no		no
972 Analytical Studies						YES	no		no

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