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Create Your Own Music
Summary
If you’ve ever wanted to compose your own music, this course is for you! Beginners: Complete six composition activities modeled after exercises assigned to great composers. Experienced composers: Stretch your ideas in new or already completed pieces. Prerequisite: basic music notation skills.
Please contact Dr. Jamie Henke at jamie.henke@wisc.edu before you register to discuss content for your individually designed course. Email is the best way to accomplish this. It is helpful to have a written record of your planned course content.
If you’ve ever wanted to compose your own music, this course is for you! Beginners: Complete six composition activities modeled after exercises assigned to great composers. Experienced composers: Stretch your ideas in new or already completed pieces. Prerequisite: basic music notation skills.
Please contact Dr. Jamie Henke at jamie.henke@wisc.edu before you register to discuss content for your individually designed course. Email is the best way to accomplish this. It is helpful to have a written record of your planned course content.
Upcoming Dates
Register by phone: 608-262-2451
Schedule
Start anytime.
Instructor(s)
JAMIE HENKE
JAMIE HENKE (PhD, UW-Madison) is a distinguished Faculty Associate and UW-Madison Chancellor's Hilldale Teaching Award recipient. She teaches music theory for non-majors at the School of Music and online courses in music theory and composition, and directs a children's choir.
Coordinator of Independent Learning in Music
Chair of the Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization
2006 recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
2011 Honored Instructor Award
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, Music Theory, 1989
BM University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vocal Performance, 1985
“It is not enough to make someone learn, you have to make them WANT to learn.”
“It is almost impossible to teach anything important to people who are not our friends.”
-Aristotle
“To study music we must learn the rules. To create music we must forget them.”
-Nadia Boulanger
Dr. Jamie Henke is a Distinguished Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches music theory, music history, jazz and appreciation courses for the Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts and the School of Music. She is the coordinator of the Independent Learning program in music. She also teaches two non-credit online courses in music theory and composition. She teaches Music 660-151 Basic Concepts of Music for the School of Music.
In 2006, Dr. Henke was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is a member of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy, and also is a member of the Teaching Academy Executive Committee. Dr. Henke has been heavily involved with the Engage program on campus. This program transforms teaching and learning through technology. To date, she has won two podcasting grants, a video podcasting grant, a collaborative learning project grant, and three simulations and games grants. She has also served as a faculty advisor for the collaborative learning project grant. Dr. Henke is currently working on two new simulation and game proposals for the Engage program. Her work for the podcasting grants is published on itunes U. She is one of the co-founders of the Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization, dedicated to the improvement of all aspects of music learning through enhanced pedagogical techniques.
Dr. Henke is the author of a new and innovative online textbook, now in its second edition, titled “Theory Gizmos” published by the Textbook Consortium. The book is available in an interactive online format with both visual animations and sound, as well as in a traditional print format.
Dr. Henke continues to be an active performer. She has appeared on many recitals, and performs on a regular basis at other area churches. Her repertoire includes works that range from J. S. Bach to Gershwin and Kern. She is currently a children’s choir director at Bethel Lutheran Church.
MACRO
Macro is a non-profit professional organization for all musicians. It is dedicated to the enhancement of all aspects of music, including pedagogy, performance, analysis, composition, and informed listening through the use of macro analytical techniques.
Fee
$215
Location
Complete Online
Questions?
Contact:You can contact Customer Service at info@dcs.wisc.edu or 608-262-1156.
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Cancellation Policy:
Our cancellation policy varies by type of program. View our policies page for more details about cancelling a program.
Our cancellation policy varies by type of program. View our policies page for more details about cancelling a program.
Have Questions?
You can contact Customer Service at info@dcs.wisc.edu or 608-262-1156.
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JAMIE HENKE
JAMIE HENKE (PhD, UW-Madison) is a distinguished Faculty Associate and UW-Madison Chancellor's Hilldale Teaching Award recipient. She teaches music theory for non-majors at the School of Music and online courses in music theory and composition, and directs a children's choir.
Coordinator of Independent Learning in Music
Chair of the Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization
2006 recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
2011 Honored Instructor Award
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, Music Theory, 1989
BM University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vocal Performance, 1985
“It is not enough to make someone learn, you have to make them WANT to learn.”
“It is almost impossible to teach anything important to people who are not our friends.”
-Aristotle
“To study music we must learn the rules. To create music we must forget them.”
-Nadia Boulanger
Dr. Jamie Henke is a Distinguished Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches music theory, music history, jazz and appreciation courses for the Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts and the School of Music. She is the coordinator of the Independent Learning program in music. She also teaches two non-credit online courses in music theory and composition. She teaches Music 660-151 Basic Concepts of Music for the School of Music.
In 2006, Dr. Henke was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is a member of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy, and also is a member of the Teaching Academy Executive Committee. Dr. Henke has been heavily involved with the Engage program on campus. This program transforms teaching and learning through technology. To date, she has won two podcasting grants, a video podcasting grant, a collaborative learning project grant, and three simulations and games grants. She has also served as a faculty advisor for the collaborative learning project grant. Dr. Henke is currently working on two new simulation and game proposals for the Engage program. Her work for the podcasting grants is published on itunes U. She is one of the co-founders of the Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization, dedicated to the improvement of all aspects of music learning through enhanced pedagogical techniques.
Dr. Henke is the author of a new and innovative online textbook, now in its second edition, titled “Theory Gizmos” published by the Textbook Consortium. The book is available in an interactive online format with both visual animations and sound, as well as in a traditional print format.
Dr. Henke continues to be an active performer. She has appeared on many recitals, and performs on a regular basis at other area churches. Her repertoire includes works that range from J. S. Bach to Gershwin and Kern. She is currently a children’s choir director at Bethel Lutheran Church.
MACRO
Macro is a non-profit professional organization for all musicians. It is dedicated to the enhancement of all aspects of music, including pedagogy, performance, analysis, composition, and informed listening through the use of macro analytical techniques.
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Register by phone: 608-262-2451
Questions about this program?
You can contact Customer Service at info@dcs.wisc.edu or 608-262-1156.
Cancellation Policy:
Our cancellation policy varies by type of program. View our policies page for more details about cancelling a program.
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