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3.00 Credits
General Education Attributes 4 This course provides an in-depth analysis of the lives and works of the main composers and music styles from Beethoven to the present. Major composers, styles, music forms, historical and social events and their effect on the development of music are examined closely. Students get the opportunity to identify the various styles, major works and forms of these periods through aural review.
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3.00 Credits
General Education Attributes. 4, 8 This non-technical course is designed to increase interest in all styles of music through the broadening of the student's experience in music and growth in appreciation of music in relation to general culture and history. In order to develop a heightened sense of aesthetic awareness, the course will examine the essential elements of musical composition, develop listening skills and trace the historical progression of major composers and musical styles of each era, and is not limited to the western world.
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2.00 Credits
General Education Attributes. 2, 4 The student will perform simple chords and chordal progressions, various strumming patterns and simple melodies. Music reading and elementary theory will be stressed. The student will be required to play at least two complete compositions of a guitar score selected from a required list of compositions. The student will be required to own or have access to an acoustic six-string guitar. Nylon strings are preferred but not required.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MUS 1570 General Education Attributes. 2, 4 A thorough knowledge of the material taught in Guitar I is necessary in order to qualify for Guitar II. Students will execute advanced chords and chordal progressions with various strumming and picking patterns. They will develop advanced music reading skills that will enable them to undertake the study of classical guitar and flamenco guitar. They will be required to play at least two complete compositions of a guitar score from a required list of compositions. The student will also play major scales using only fretted strings. The student will be required to own, purchase or have access to a non-amplified 6-string guitar from the outset of the class. Nylon strings are preferred but not required.
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3.00 Credits
General Education Attributes 4, 8 This course provides an introduction to the major musical traditions of the world by emphasizing their diversity and uniqueness. The course focuses on folk, ethnic, dance, and ceremonial music from different regions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Concepts such as ethnicity, ethnocentrism, racism, and gender issues are addressed as they apply to each culture individually. This course relies heavily on guided listening of authentic recordings and/or performances.
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3.00 Credits
General Education Attributes. 2, 4 Students will trace the development of rock music, beginning with pre-rock influences in jazz, classical, and traditional pop. They will identify the major artistic, technical, historical, social, economic, and entertainment aspects of rock by means of a variety of recorded examples, classroom presentation and written materials.
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2.00 Credits
The student will identify and construct basic elements of music including names of lines and spaces of the treble, bass, and alto clefs; note values and time signatures; major and minor scales; modes; intervals; and triads.
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2.00 Credits
The student will write melodies which are dictated, will learn sight reading of melodies and will emphasize aural rather than theoretical music.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MUS 1610 or equivalent This course is designed to provide the student with the necessary tools to harmonize a given bass or soprano line in the style of Bach. The major/minor system is covered extensively. Topics include identification of all triads and seventh chords and their inversions, use and analysis of tonal harmony, cadences and non-harmonic tones. Additionally, works of Bach and others will be analyzed (with special emphasis on chorales). The course focuses on part-writing, but students that wish to do so may write the assignments in keyboard style.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: MUS 1610, MUS 1620 The student will write melodies more difficult than in MUS 1620 with two-part dictations being given along with simple three and four-part harmonies. The emphasis will be on the aural aspects of harmony rather than the theoretical aspects as well as more advanced sight singing exercises.
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