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  • 2.00 Credits

    Private music lessons designed for guitar performance students. One 50-minute lesson per week and one performance class per week. Participation in a department recital and a final jury examination are required. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Perform with applicable technical proficiency. 2. Perform with appropriate artistry and interpretation. 3. Demonstrate musical literacy through relevant style and performance practices. 4. Sight read music as assigned by the instructor. Course fee required. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission. FA, SP
  • 2.00 Credits

    Private music lessons designed for organ performance students. One 50-minute lesson per week and one performance class per week. Participation in a department recital and a final jury examination are required. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Perform with applicable technical proficiency. 2. Perform with appropriate artistry and interpretation. 3. Demonstrate musical literacy through relevant style and performance practices. 4. Sight read music as assigned by the instructor. Course fee required. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission. FA, SP
  • 2.00 Credits

    Private music lessons designed for percussion performance students. One 50-minute lesson per week and one performance class per week. Participation in a department recital and a final jury examination are required. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Perform with applicable technical proficiency. 2. Perform with appropriate artistry and interpretation. 3. Demonstrate musical literacy through relevant style and performance practices. 4. Sight read music as assigned by the instructor. Course fee required. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. FA, SP
  • 3.00 Credits

    Music Theory involves the study of the elements and structures of music and how they interact. Music Theory III goes through tonal chromatic harmony and whole-piece forms, and explores more advanced techniques in analyzing and composing tonal music. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Analyze the form of a piece of music, with emphasis on common choral and instrumental forms. 2. Analyze music that uses a variety of common chromatic devices, including secondary dominant chords, modulations, borrowed chords, Neapolitan chords, Augmented sixth chords, and other voice-leading techniques. 3. Compose music using a variety of common chromatic devices, including secondary dominant chords, modulations, borrowed chords, Neapolitan chords, Augmented sixth chords, and other voice-leading techniques. 4. Experiment with analyzing tonal music using at least one advanced analytical method. Prerequisite:?? MUSC 1120. Corequisite:?? MUSC 2130. ?? FA
  • 3.00 Credits

    Music Theory involves the study of the elements and structures of music and how they interact. Music Theory IV explores techniques, ideas, and experiments in music throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Analyze centric post-tonal music from the early twentieth century, including features such as diatonic modes, non-diatonic scales, extended- and non-tertian harmonies, and polytonality. 2. Use basic pitch class set analysis to analyze post-tonal music. 3. Analyze and compose music using simple serial techniques. 4. Describe and critique 20th- and 21st-century experiments in pitch, rhythm, meter, form, timbre, and chance. ?? Prerequisite:?? MUSC 2110. Corequisite:?? MUSC 2140. ?? SP
  • 1.00 Credits

    Required of all Music majors. The third of four courses in a series of ear training and sight singing courses dealing with aural and sight singing skills that parallel the theoretical material of Music Theory. Simple keyboard skills necessary. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Sing melodies with simple chromatic alterations or modulations to closely-related keys, and with increasing rhythmic complexity without aural assistance. 2. Aurally dictate melodies with simple chromatic alterations or modulations to closely-related keys, and with increasing rhythmic complexity. 3. Aurally dictate the outer voices and harmony in short, diatonic, 4-part chord progressions. ?? Prerequisite:??MUSC 1140. Corequisite:?? MUSC 2110. ?? FA
  • 1.00 Credits

    Required of all Music majors. The fourth and final course in ear training and sight singing courses dealing with aural and sight singing skills that parallel the theoretical material of Music Theory. Simple keyboard skills necessary. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Sing melodies with advanced chromaticism, and/or distant modulations without aural assistance. 2. Sing melodies employing diatonic modes without aural assistance. 3. Aurally dictate melodies with advanced chromaticism, and/or distant modulations. 4. Aurally dictate melodies employing diatonic modes. 5. Aurally dictate the outer voices and harmony in short, 4-part chord progressions that include common chromatic harmonies. ?? Prerequisite:?? MUSC 2130. Corequisite:?? MUSC 2120. ?? SP
  • 1.00 Credits

    For non-Music majors and non-keyboard music majors. Prepares Music majors for Piano Proficiency Exam, which includes piano technique, sight-reading, accompanying, improvisation, transposition, and performance skills using electronic keyboards. Repeatable up to 2 credits subject to graduation restrictions. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate intermediate competency in note reading, rhythm, notation, and theory. 2. Perform basic intermediate skills in piano technique, repertoire, and sight-reading. 3. Achieve intermediate proficiency in harmonization, improvisation and transposition. 4. Begin completing the piano proficiency requirement for the bachelor's degree in music. Prerequisite: MUSC 1160R.?? ?? FA, SP
  • 1.00 Credits

    For non-Music majors and non-keyboard music majors. Prepares Music majors for Piano Proficiency Exam, which includes piano technique, sight-reading, accompanying, improvisation, transposition, and performance skills, using electronic keyboards. Repeatable up to 2 credits subject to graduation restrictions. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Perform piano proficiency skills in piano repertoire, technique, and sight-reading. 2. Perform piano proficiency skills in harmonization, improvisation, and transposition. 3. Complete the piano proficiency requirement for the bachelor's degree in music. Prerequisite: MUSC 2150R.?? ?? FA, SP
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to the basics of music-specific computer technology. Topics covered include the use of notation software, basics of sound design in a digital audio workstation, MIDI technology, and the use of technology in live performance and in music education. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Create printed music using notation software. 2. Create streaming audio and video media demonstrating competency with various software and hardware tools. 3. Compose an original work utilizing MIDI sequencing. 4. Demonstrate the use of technology as a pedagogical and self-assessment tool. FA