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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Class Hours Prerequisite: MUB 201 Focus on how digital technology, and the legal and business issues surrounding it, has transformed the world of music publishing, licensing and recording. Hit songs are explored from the craft up to the ultimate financial opportunities responsible for the international surge in buying and selling copyrights.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the elements, forms and styles of music, from the Medieval period through the Twentieth Century. Emphasis on the historical and sociological contexts as a means of developing a sense of stylistic understanding.
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3.00 Credits
Sociological origins and history of the jazz idiom. Survey and analysis of the maj or schools and trends ofj azz. In-depth study of performers, bands, and smaller jazz combinations which have influenced twentieth century music.
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3.00 Credits
Development of j azz between the two World Wars, from roots in ragtime, the blues, and other traditions to the beginnings of bebop. Study of two key decades: the 1920s, with such towering figures as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Coleman Hawkins, Adrian Rollini, and Jack Teagarden, and the 1930s, period of intersection with popular music now called the Swing Era. The music of prominent soloists and bands such as Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Roy Eldridge, Count Basie, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw, Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter, Bunny Berigan and Jimmie Lunceford are explored and analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the repertoire of music of various genres, styles and cultures that represent the peoples of the world and their manifestations in the United States, including the personal and cultural forces that influence music and how music in turn influences the diverse cultures of past and present society.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MUH 101/102 Study and analysis of American popular music with emphasis on its major composers and performers. Social, economic, and historical contexts are examined. Classification and comparison of often used syntax and popular styles. Emphasis on Jazz, Swing, Country, Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and the Rock genre.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Class Hours Prerequisite: MUH 101/102 Development of musical theatre in America from 1800 to 1940. Study of the cultures, social customs, production techniques and theatres that influenced music in this type of production. Emphasis on the works of George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin, and Jerome Kern.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Class Hours Prerequisite: MUH 101/102 Development of musical theatre in America from 1940 to present. Study of the cultures, social customs, production techniques and theatres that influenced music in this type of production. Emphasis on the works of Rodgers and Ham-merstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Lowe, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MUH 101/102 Historical survey of the Big Bands that dominated American music from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Harry James, Stan Kenton, Guy Lombardo, and Artie Shaw bands are studied together with others whose distinctive styles and artistic creativity made significant musical contributions to the genre.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Class Hours Prerequisite: MUH 101/102 An exploration of the fascinating lives of the great singers, such as Al Jolson, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Barbra Streisand, who gave life to classic popular music. Their influence and role in America's cultural history from the 1920s to the present day are emphasized.
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