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3.00 Credits
(formerly History of Music in Western Civilization) 3 units 3 hours weekly Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 151. This course presents a historical overview of western music from Ancient Greece to about 1750. Students will incorporate study of composer 's lives and the historical period in which they lived with score study and listening to recordings of the standard repertoire. They will develop the ability to identify a composer's work by the distinctive characteristics displayed by each composer. Students will begin to put into perspective the historical context of various pieces of music, the artistic, political, and sociological influences on composers of music, and learn to intelligently analyze and dissect different music styles. [CAN MUS 8] (CSU, UC, AVC)
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3.00 Credits
(formerly History of Music in Western Civilization) 3 units 3 hours weekly Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 251A. This course presents an historical overview of western music from about 1750 to the present. Students will incorporate study of composer's lives and the historical period in which they lived or continue to live with score study and listening to recordings of the standard repertoire. They will develop the ability to identify a composer's work by the distinctive characteristics displayed by each composer. Students will begin to put into perspective the historical context of various pieces of music, the artistic, political, and sociological influences on composers of music, and learn to intelligently analyze and dissect different music styles. [CAN MUS 10] (CSU, UC, AVC)
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3.00 Credits
2 units 3 hours weekly Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 132. A continuation of piano skills begun in MUS 132. (CSU, UC, AVC)
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3.00 Credits
2 units 3 hours weekly Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 231. A continuation of piano skills begun in MUS 231. (CSU, UC, AVC)
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4.00 Credits
2 units 4 hours weekly A course is designed for pianists who wish to gain experience accompanying voice classes or choral ensembles. Advanced students will be assigned to accompany MUS 121, 122, 123, 181, 185, 186, 187, 191, 222, 223, 241 or 291. (CSU, UC, AVC) ( R3)
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1.00 Credits
1 unit 27 hours total Limitation on Enrollment: Audition required. Advisory: Eligibility for READ 099. This course focuses on aspects of choral performance, including repertoire selection, rehearsal organization, conducting technique, and ensemble development. It may include a public performance conducted and performed by the students. (CSU, UC, AVC) ( R3)
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3.00 Credits
3 units 3 hours weekly Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 151. Advisory: Concurrent enrollment in MUS 253A. A continuation of the study of traditional voice leading in four-part choral writing, traditional methods of writing harmonic progressions, a basic tour of historical style periods, traditional usages of the dominant seventh, diminished seventh, and half-diminished seventh chords, basic modulation techniques, study of the function of non-dominant seventh chords, study of secondary dominant and leading tone chords, and review of basic forms. Appropriate for any member of the AVC community that desires a strong foundation in common practice music theory. [CAN MUS 4] (CSU, UC, AVC)
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3.00 Credits
3 units 3 hours weekly Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 251A. Advisory: Concurrent enrollment in MUS 253B. A study of advanced methods of writing harmonic progressions, a basic tour of the late nineteenth and twentieth century stylistic periods, usage of borrowed and altered chords, enharmonic modulation techniques, study of new scales and sonor i t i e s a s soc i a t ed wi th pos t - romanticism, impressionism, atonality, serialism and chance music. Appropriate for any member of the AVC community that desires a strong foundation in common practice music theory. (CSU, UC, AVC)
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3.00 Credits
(formerly MUS 154, Musicianship II) 2 units 3 hours weekly Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 153. A continuation of the study of the aural aspect of music theory begun in Music 153. Students continue to develop the ability to identify and transcribe rhythms, intervals, chords, scales, and chord progressions. Students will also learn to sing intermediate melodies at sight. (CSU, UC, AVC)
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3.00 Credits
(formerly MUS 253, Musicianship III) 2 units 3 hours weekly Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 253A. A continuation of the study of the aural aspect of music theory begun in Music 253A. Students continue to develop the ability to identify and transcribe rhythms, intervals, chords, scales, and chord progressions. Students will also learn to sing advanced melodies at sight. (CSU, UC, AVC)
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