Course Criteria

Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Music 4A or 41A. Study of the harmonic and melodic materials of jazz, blues, standard tunes, and modal jazz. Emphasis on the ability to play with a jazz feel, create bass lines, accompany singers and instrumentalists, and effectively sight read lead sheets. Technical exercises to improve piano efficiency for jazz and other related styles. Recommended Music 36A. Maximum credit 2 units, 1 unit each semester. Total of 36 hours lecture and 18 hours music laboratory. Formerly Music 34. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC credit under review.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Music 34A or retention based on successful audition. Study on the keyboard of advanced techniques and materials of jazz such as: blues, ballads, standard tunes, and modal jazz. Emphasis on the advanced ability to play with a jazz feel, create bass lines, accompany singers and instrumentalists and effectively sight read lead sheets. Advanced technical exercises to improve piano efficiency for jazz and related styles. Maximum credit 2 units, 1 unit each semester. Total of 36 hours lecture and 18 hours music laboratory. Transfer credit: CSU; UC credit under review.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Music 1 or placement based on the Music assessment process. Notating music with pen, pencil and computer software. Preparing lead sheets. Extracting parts and producing reduced scores. Reproduction techniques. Pertinent music business aspects. Maximum credit 4 units, 2 units each semester. Total of 36 hours lecture and 18 hours music laboratory. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Music 1 or placement based on the Music assessment process. Major, minor, modal jazz scales. Chord construction: triads through 13th's with alterations, poly chords. Chord families and functions. The II-V-I progression with variations and voice leading. Ear training. Total of 54 hours lecture and 18 hours music laboratory. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Music 36A or placement based on the Music assessment process. Jazz-oriented scales and their applications, contemporary chord voicings, polychords, substitutions. Moving line patterns and harmonic counterlines. Basic chord progressions. Song forms. Four- part writing and arranging. Ear training. Total of 54 hours lecture and 18 hours music laboratory. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 8.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Music 36A or placement based on the Music assessment process. Scoring and arranging for instrumental and vocal ensembles in traditional and contemporary styles and formats. Each course 2 units and a total of 36 hours lecture and 36 hours laboratory. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC MUSIC 37A BIG BAND MUSIC 37B COMBOS MUSIC 37C VOCAL MUSIC 37D STRINGS
  • 2.00 Credits

    Recommended preparation: Music 23. Music theory, musicianship, and performance of music from various cultural perspectives including Africa, South and East Asia, Indonesia, Oceania, and the Americas. Music as an expression of its culture. The elements of music, development of reading, writing, and aural skills. Improvisation, part-singing, and instrument making. Application to each student's area of performance specialization. Maximum credit 4 units, 2 units each semester. No credit if taken after Music 38. Total of 18 hours lecture and 54 hours laboratory. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 1.00 Credits

    Performance techniques within the cultural context of African music. Combining various drumming patterns for group performance. Includes ritual and social functions. For student interested in understanding and performing African music. Maximum credit 4 units, 1 unit each semester. Total of 18 hours lecture and 36 hours laboratory. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 1.00 Credits

    Performance techniques and cultural context of Chinese music. Playing techniques in the zheng (Chinese long zither) and other Chinese musical instruments. Music for duo and small ensemble performance. For students interested in understanding, appreciating, and performing Chinese music. Maximum credit 4 units, 1 unit each semester. Total of 18 hours lecture and 36 hours laboratory. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Music 1 or placement based on the Music assessment process. Corequisites: Music 2A, 4B and 10. Diatonic harmony, including primary and secondary triads with inversions. Nonchordal tones introduced. Harmonization of given and original melodies. Harmonic analysis of music literature. Study of figured bass. Recommended enrollment for music majors inMusic 8, 9, 18, 108 or 118. Total of 54 hours lecture. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC. *CAN: MUS 2
To find college, community college and university courses by keyword, enter some or all of the following, then select the Search button.
(Type the name of a College, University, Exam, or Corporation)
(For example: Accounting, Psychology)
(For example: ACCT 101, where Course Prefix is ACCT, and Course Number is 101)
(For example: Introduction To Accounting)
(For example: Sine waves, Hemingway, or Impressionism)
Distance:
of
(For example: Find all institutions within 5 miles of the selected Zip Code)
Privacy Statement   |   Terms of Use   |   Institutional Membership Information   |   About AcademyOne   
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.