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3.00 Credits
An introductory course covering the aural and visual elements of music, pitch, notation, rhythm/meter, scales, tonality, key signatures, modes, intervals and triads. This course is designed for the beginning student with no music theory background. Students with previous theory background may test out of this course by passing the Fundamentals Exam (see instructor). Students are required to attend one weekly lab session in ear training, sight singing and keyboard harmony. Winter 2008
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Begins with a review of basic music fundamentals. Continued study of tonality in vocal and instrumental music. Four-part writing and analysis of diatonic triadic progressions. Also includes the study of harmonic cadences, nonharmonic tones, melodic organization, rhythm, texture and voice leading procedures. Students are required to attend one weekly lab session in ear training, sight singing and keyboard harmony. Prerequisite: MUSC 114 or successful completion of Fundamentals Exam Spring 2009
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Study of harmonic progressions including dominant sevenths, leading tone sevenths, nondominant sevenths, modulation, secondary dominants, introduction to basic binary and ternary forms. Students are required to attend one weekly lab session in ear training, sight singing, and keyboard harmony. Prerequisite: MUSC 115 Fall 2007
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This introductory level music appreciation course focuses on fine art (classical), folk and popular American music from ca. 1900-1960. Music styles studied in this course include early American folk music, Native American folk music, popular songs of Tin Pan Alley, American jazz (early Dixieland, big band swing, bebop and contemporary jazz), rhythm and blues, rock and roll, folk, revival, gospel, bluegrass and country music. Fine art (classical) American music is also introduced in this course as well as the evolution and development of the American musical theatre. Fall
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Open to students who wish to engage in directed research in a selected area. With departmental approval
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The course is designed as a survey of music literature with the purpose of furnishing a basis for intelligent listening to music. Includes lectures, collateral reading, directed listening and is open to all students. Fall, Winter, Spring
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A study of musical developments from their origin through the Baroque period, with emphasis on the evolution of forms and styles, instrumentation and performance practices. Fall
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A study of the Pre-Classical and Romantic periods (1725-1890) with emphasis on the emergence of the symphony, sonata, concerto, art song and opera. Aural analysis of the music and forms of this period. Winter
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The history of 20th century music from impressionism to present-day music (1890-present). Areas to be explored include impressionism, expressionism, neoclassicism, primitivism, Gebrauchmusik, serial technic, chance music, jazz and electronic music. Spring
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Begins with an introduction to late Renaissance polyphony, eighteenth-century counterpoint and the fugue. Continued study of chromatic harmony of the nineteenth century including borrowed chords, Neapolitan 6th chords and augmented 6th chords. Variation technique, sonata form and rondo form are also included. Students are required to attend one weekly lab session in ear training, sight singing and keyboard harmony. Prerequisite: MUSC 116 Winter 2007
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