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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the basic concepts of music theory and beginning compositional skills.Starting with the notation of pitch and rhythm, the course investigates the major/minor key system, intervals, chord construction, melody writing, and rudimentary harmonization.No background in music is expected.Three credits.
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This course, designed for majors and minors in jazz performance, gives students a working knowledge of jazz and pop harmony.Students attain keyboard proficiency through an emphasis on ear-training, voicings, tritone substitutions, and improvisation theory; this proficiency can be used on other instruments.Students learn all upper-structure chords in all keys as well as ways to improvise on various chord structures.Students should be able to play through lead sheet material with reasonable proficiency using jazz voicings and voice-leading techniques.Basic knowledge of the keyboard is recommended, but the course is open to all instrumentalists and vocalists.(Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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This course provides students with an introduction to the use of musical instrument digital interface and its various formats.Participants study principles of MIDI, the use of computers in music, and music software as it applies to composition, arranging, sequencing, and music notation, examining how these formats enhance the performance of music and music production.Students learn the technology used in pop music, soundtracks, and commercial music.This course requires a basic knowledge of music and is open to students with some musical background.Three credits.
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This course introduces students to the various aspects of the music industry.Students discuss the history and process behind the creation, manufacture, and distribution of prerecorded music.The course covers the earliest record companies, changes in the technology, and the growing awareness and sophistication of the consumer and the artists, as well as the function of managers, attorneys, musicians, and agents in the music industry.Three credits.
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The course demonstrates and emphasizes the physics and theory of acoustical sound in a studio and live environment, giving student recording engineers the ability to capture that sound in a high-quality recording environment.Students learn the fundamentals of recording equipment, such as microphone placement, dynamic processors, echo, delay, reverb, equalizers, and the mixing console, gaining the ability to organize, set-up, and administer a recording session.The portability of the equipment enables potential tie-ins to the Regina A.Quick Center, studio arts, Theatre Fairfield, the Levee, and other campus events.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This upper level lecture course provides an in-depth look at the important musical, social, and racial issues in American popular music, from the media exploitation of the blues in the 1920s through current issues in hip hop.Subject areas will include blues and its origins, jazz and modernism, the obstacles of race in music, the death of rhythm and blues, rock's evolution in the '50s, rap and hip hop culture, and issues in both postmodernism and perverse as seen by many music and art critics.(Prerequisite: MU 101, MU 102, or MU 112. ) This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement . Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
During the classical era (about 1750 to 1830), music shifted from an aristocratic concern to the favorite popular art of the middle class.The course examines the lives and music of the three most important composers of this period: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.Three credits.
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This comprehensive survey of 19th-century romanticism in music considers the music of Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, and Wagner, among others.The music of the romantic era contains some of the richest masterpieces in music history.The course considers the relationship between music and the other arts.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This introduction to the mainstreams of music of our time begins with Debussy, Ravel, and the French moderns.After investigating the music of Stravinsky, Bartók, and other European composers, the course concludes with such modern trends as electronic music, film music, jazz, and popular music.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
In this continuation of MU 150 students build a theoretical and compositional foundation by studying 7th chords, part-writing, harmonic progressions, and chromatic harmony.In addition, students compose original melodies and learn how to harmonize them, and undertake simple analysis projects to further understand how music is put together.(Prerequisite: MU 150 or permission of instructor) Three credits.
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