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  • 1.00 Credits

    The University Singers is open to all University students. It provides performance experiences and opportunities for the Baker student who wishes to sing, but who does not desire the intensity of the Concert Choir experience. This ensemble rehearses two days each week and may provide worship music at Baker and area church services as well as sharing performances at formal concerts with the Concert Choir. Ensemble literature will include both sacred and secular choral music.
  • 1.00 Credits

    The Baker University Concert Choir is open to all University students through audition. The Concert Choir tours to churches, public schools, and concert halls, in addition to performing on campus in formal concerts, including candlelight Christmas Vespers and Spring Vespers. Students interested in auditioning for Concert Choir are strongly encouraged to plan on two semesters of enrollment each year. Choral literature performed by the Concert Choir will include the finest sacred and secular choral works written for large choral ensembles. Prerequisites: Audition and permission of the instructor.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Baker University Chamber Singers is open to all University students by audition only. Ensemble size will be limited to a maximum of twenty singers each year. Music studied and performed will be limited to choral music composed for small ensembles between the 16th and 20th centuries. This ensemble will represent Baker University in formal concert settings and as an "ambassador" at less formal settings. Prerequisites: Audition and permission of the instructor.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Students prepare and perform scenes from the standard literature of opera and musical theatre. When conditions permit, a major musical or operatic production will be performed. Open to music majors and selected non-music majors. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Co-requisite: Enrollment in Applied Lessons: Voice.
  • 1.00 Credits

    The course introduces basic choral and instrumental conducting techniques including patterns, score analysis, score vocabulary, and rehearsal planning. It meets three hours per week for one-half semester. Prerequisites: MU 158 and 164.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course is a continuation of MU 157 and 158. The intermediate level of keyboard skills deals with the continuation of major and minor scales; interval and chord identification; intermediate level piano pieces; and simple harmonizations. For music majors only, it meets two hours each week. Prerequisite: MU 158 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite: MU 263.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course is a continuation of the intermediate level keyboard skills, MU 257. The successful completion of MU 258 is equivalent to the requirements of the piano proficiency examination. This class meets two hours each week. Prerequisite: MU 257 or permission of the instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces and develops the concept of chromatic harmony from non-dominant seventh chords through secondary dominants to the principles of modulation and altered chords. Emphasis is placed upon part-writing, analysis of literature, and imitative compositional skills. The sight-singing of tonal melodies, and dictation of melodies, rhythms, intervals, and two- and four-part music continue from MU 164. Prerequisite: MU 164. Co-requisite: MU 257.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This advanced music theory course emphasizes study of post-Romantic/Impressionistic/Contemporary harmonies, serial techniques, and the manipulation, and formal development techniques of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students' aural skills development continues throughout the semester. Emphasis is placed upon the analysis of composer styles and techniques, and in imitating such accepted techniques through student composition. Prerequisite: MU 263. Co-requisite: MU 258.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course provides students with basic teaching skills for orchestral string instruments. Attention is given to the literature available for teaching and performance. Students enrolled are instructed in the care, selection, and idiosyncrasies of each respective instrument.
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