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Goal To introduce students to basic musical concepts. Content Students will develop and understanding of musical notation, scales, intervals, and basic harmony, and will learn to use the keyboard and solfège as tools for studying music. Taught Fall. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal This course will focus on understanding the compositional process in common practice Western music as well as developing the skills of sight singing and ear training. Content This course deals with harmony, the sound that results from the combination of two or more pitches, and how it was handled by the great composers of Western music. Understanding will be gained by analyzing music as well as the writing of short musical examples Taught Spring. Prerequisite MUS 181. Credit 3 hours. (the class will meet 5 days a week)
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Goal To provide students with staged musical performance experiences. Content Participation in rehearsal and production of operas, operettas, musical theater pieces, or scenes programs. Content will vary. Taught Spring. Alternate years. Prerequisite Audition and permission of instructor. Credit 1.
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Goal To prepare classroom teachers to conduct appropriate music activities and to teach music effectively in grades P- 5. Content Basic music concepts, skills, and materials appropriate for elementary school children in the classroom. Taught Spring. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as EDU 278 for education majors only.
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Goal This course will focus on a more advanced understanding of the compositional process in common practice Western music as well as further developing the skills of sight-singing and ear training. Content The goal of this course is to expose students to more advanced harmonic procedures, such as secondary dominants, modulations, and borrowed chords, as well as techniques used in modern music. These goals will be accomplished by analyzing music as well as the writing of short musical examples and more extended compositions. Taught Fall. Prerequisites MUS 182. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal An exploration of the principles governing large-scale musical organization from Renaissance polyphony to the Innovative approaches to musical form in the 20th century. Content The course develops understanding of contrapuntal forms In the Renaissance and Baroque (including fugue), Classical forms such as sonata and rondo and their expansion In the Romantic era, as well as formal procedures In modern music. Aural and visual recognition of composers, compositional processes, and genres will be emphasized. Taught Spring. Prerequisites MUS 280. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal Student will organize and articulate ideas related to music studied. This will include concerto, chamber works and solo work. Cultural frame of reference will be addressed. Content Students will respond to a list of questions appropriate to each masterwork studied. Then a similar piece will be assigned to the student for performance, and after the necessary research, she will put the piece into perspective using similar criteria. Technical and musical demands will be researched as well as attention to form and some harmonic analysis. Taught Fall. Alternate years. Prerequisite MUS 181 and MUS 182. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To examine how cultural attitudes toward women affect the roles of women in opera. Content Analysis of female characters in selected operas through papers and oral presentations, in light of social, economic and/or political situation of the opera. Taught Regularly Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To learn correct pronunciation and articulation for singing in English, Italian, Latin, French, German, and Spanish. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) will be an integral tool in this process. Content The literature covered will include pieces from choral and solo vocal literature in various languages. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisite Two semesters of Applied Voice. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To acquaint the student with the wide body of literature available to pianists from the late Renaissance through the present. Emphasis will be placed on sight reading quantities of example literature from this time span. Content A survey of literature for the piano from the early English school through the present. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisite Two semesters of applied piano study and the permission of the instructor. Credit 3 hours.
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