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  • MU 127: Class Piano

    1.00 Credits
    Baker University

    This piano class, for non-majors, provides emphasis on achievement of beginning level performance competencies on piano. No prior knowledge of reading music or keyboard experience is necessary. It meets for two hours each week.
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  • MU 151: Music Theory Fundamentals

    2.00 Credits
    Baker University

    This course is designed as an introduction to written music theory and is the fundamental course for all subsequent study in functional harmony and related music theory courses. Students enrolled in the course are required to attend regularly scheduled sessions twice a week and may be assigned an additional remedial class session once per week if needed. All entering students in the music theory course sequence are required to take a comprehensive music fundamentals test during the first regularly scheduled class. If minimum competencies are demonstrated in each content area, the instructor may elect to excuse the student from the course as a required prerequisite of subsequent music theory courses. Co-requisites: MU 153 and 157.
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  • MU 153: Sight- Singing, Dictation, and Aural Skills

    1.00 Credits
    Baker University

    This course is required of all music majors and is a prerequisite for all subsequent music theory courses. The student develops skills in aural identification of meter/time signatures, diatonic scales, diatonic melodic and harmonic intervals, and triads; diatonic melodic, harmonic and rhythmic dictation; and sight-singing of melodic passages and arpeggiated diatonic triads. Co-requisites: MU 151 and 157.
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  • MU 157: Class Piano

    1.00 Credits
    Baker University

    This continuous course places basic emphasis on the achievement of those keyboard skills required of all music majors in order to pass their keyboard proficiency examination. The fundamental skills at the beginning level (MU 157 and MU 158) include: major/minor scales; interval and chordal identification; simple pieces; sight-reading; and melodic transposition. For music majors only, it meets two hours each week. Co-requisites: MU 151 and 153.
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  • MU 158: Class Piano

    1.00 Credits
    Baker University

    This course is a continuation of MU 157 that meets two hours each week for music majors only. Prerequisite: MU 157 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite: MU 164.
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  • MU 164: Eighteenth- Century Functional Harmony

    3.00 Credits
    Baker University

    This course is an introduction to 17th- and 18th-century functional harmony. Course content and aural and sight-singing skills are directly related to 17th- and 18th-century functional analysis. Content includes use of Roman numerals in major and minor modes; the four-part chorale and voice ranges, root movements, instrumental style, chord inversions, and cadences. Aural identification, sight-singing, and melodic and harmonic dictation skills continued from MU 153. Prerequisites: MU 151 and 153. Co-requisite: MU 158.
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  • MU 222: Orchestra

    1.00 Credits
    Baker University

    The orchestra at Baker is offered each semester and is open to all orchestral string players without audition. Repertoire performed includes classical and light classical music for string orchestra and full orchestra. The group performs several formal concerts and in area schools and churches each year.
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  • MU 223: Instrumental Chamber Ensembles

    1.00 Credits
    Baker University

    Students registered for this course are assigned participation in strings, brass, woodwind, guitar, percussion, and jazz combo chamber ensembles. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Co-requisite: enrollment in appropriate large ensemble.
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  • MU 232: Symphonic Band

    1.00 Credits
    Baker University

    The Symphonic Band, open to both music majors and non-music majors, performs contemporary as well as traditional literature for wind ensemble. This band performs campus concerts, for ceremonial functions, tours each spring, and features guest artists and conductors. In the fall semester, members of the Symphonic Band also perform as the Wildcat Pride Athletic Band for home varsity football games and marches in the Maple Leaf Festival Parade. Instrumentation is limited to balance sections. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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  • MU 233: Jazz Ensemble

    1.00 Credits
    Baker University

    The jazz ensemble rehearses and performs a variety of "big band" jazz literature in styles found throughout the world. Students are encouraged to develop and expand improvisational skills within the rehearsal setting and through public performance. Open to all Baker students through audition, prior experience in similar jazz ensembles is not required for enrollment. Prerequisite: Audition.
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