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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
1 hour A continuation of MUS 231L. Normally taken concurrently with MUS 332. Prerequisites: MUS 231, 231L.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
1-2 hours Individual composition lessons designed to develop compositional facility in a variety of styles and media. Students also participate in a weekly composition seminar and interact with guest composers. May be repeated for credit. May be taken for 1 or 2 credits as directed by instructor. Prerequisite: MUS 238 or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours A survey of musical life and literature from Ancient Greece through the Baroque era: the Greek theoretical legacy; sacred and secular developments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; invention of opera and growth of idiomatic instrumental styles; life and works of Bach and Handel; American topics: early psalters and hymnals. Prerequisites: MUS 122, 122L. (R, W)
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2.00 Credits
2 hours A survey of musical life and literature from 1730 to 1825: origins and development of the divertimento, symphony, string quartet, piano concerto, and related genres; developments in opera and sacred vocal forms; life and works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven; American topics: early instruction books and singing schools, shape-notes, the Moravians, William Billings. Prerequisites: MUS 122, 122L.
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2.00 Credits
2 hours A survey of musical life and literature in the 19th century: the Lied and song cycle, romantic opera, concert overture, symphonic poem, program symphony, virtuoso violin and piano schools; survey of the life and works of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss; American topics: the Negro spiritual, minstrel shows, Lowell Mason, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Stephen Foster. Prerequisites: MUS 122, 122L.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours A survey of musical life and literature from the latenineteenth century to the present: tonality in its luxuriant-chromatic phase; the fin-de-siècle in Europe and America; jazz, atonality and serialism; mid-century symphonic music; popular music, concert music, and performance art since 1945. Prerequisites: MUS 332, 332L. (R, W)
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2.00 Credits
2 hours A detailed study of rehearsal techniques, musical components and conducting expressiveness and effectiveness related to a choral rehearsal. Additional attention is given to a general choral repertoire survey and written self-evaluations. Strongly recommended for vocal performance music majors and required for vocal music education majors. Prerequisite: MUS 250.
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2.00 Credits
2 hours A study of advanced gesture technique as applied to instrumental rehearsal and performance. Additional attention is given to rehearsal techniques, score study, accompaniment, and performance practice. Prerequisite: MUS 250.
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2.00 Credits
2 hours An introductory course in electro-acoustic music in which students: 1) listen to music which uses technology in an essential way, 2) study the physics of sound and digital signal processing, and 3) create original music using a digital audio workstation.The course culminates in a recital of original works. This course is normally required as preparation for advanced independent work in the Presser Electronic Music Studio. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Alternate years.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
1-2 hours Guidance in the proper execution of vocal music dealing with diction, musical style, and assistance in repertoire selection. Prerequisites: upper level (MUS 330) voice and consent of instructor.
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