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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
A piano ensemble open to students form all departments, which will give a limited number of on-campus concerts and local performances. The ensemble will perform piano works written for four or more hands in a variety of genres and styles. Admissions by audition.
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2.00 Credits
The study of fundamentals in elementary theory of music, note reading, rhythm, key signatures, major scales, letter names, bass clef, and treble clef. Sight-singing is integrated with the conducting of simple compositions and hymns. (Required of all students whoseMusic Entrance Exam score indicates a need for rudimentary studies.)
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4.00 Credits
Basic musical elements including pitch notation, rhythmic notation, key signatures, meter signatures, intervals, scales, chords, cadences, inversions, and part writing. Singing in treble and bass clefs; introduction to alto and tenor clefs. Aural study of intervals; study of beats and divisions of beats; and melodies having harmonic backgrounds of principal chords. These elements are learned through hearing, singing, and keyboard activities, while developing skills in reading and writing simple melodies.
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2.00 Credits
The study of fundamentals in elementary theory of music, note reading, rhythm, major scales, minor scales, part writing, intervals, chords, and harmonies. Further development of aural skills with sight-singing and ear training. (Required of all students whoseMusic Entrance Exam score indicates a need for rudimentary studies.)
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4.00 Credits
Continuation ofMUS 1114 using similar activities to develop skills in four-part diatonic harmony, non-harmonic tones, seventh chords, binary and tenary forms, secondary dominants, and modulation. Aural study of intervals and melodies with diatonic harmonic backgrounds and further study of the subdivision of beats. (Prerequisite:MUS 1114)
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1.00 Credits
Group music instruction. Class Piano will emphasize basic piano instruction, note reading, pedaling, major scales, intervals, simple improvisation, and basic accompaniment patterns. This course sequence is designed for those students who are not piano majors to attain proficiency at the piano. Required of all music majors with a specialization other than piano, whose Piano Placement Assessment score indicates a need for rudimentary studies. (This course is considered an elective and does not apply toward the applied piano requirement for music majors.)
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1.00 Credits
Groupmusic instruction. Continuation of the skillsmastered inMUS 1131 includingmajor scales,minor scales, arpeggios, cadential patterns, intervals, simple improvisation , and basic accompaniment patterns.This course sequence is designed for those students who are not pianomajors to attain proficiency at the piano. (Prerequisite:MUS 1131 or approval of instructor. This course is considered an elective and does not apply toward the applied piano requirement formusicmajors.)
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1.00 Credits
Group music instruction. Class Voice will emphasize basic vocal technique, posture, breathing, tone color, note and rhythm reading, and basic performance techniques . (Course is to be repeated until proficiency is attained. Required of all music majors whose Vocal Placement Assessment score indicates a need for rudimentary studies.)
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2.00 Credits
Diction and pronunciation skills for singing. Introduction to phonetic analysis in English, Italian, German, and French. No attempt will be made to develop grammar or vocabulary skills.
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4.00 Credits
Continuation ofMUS 1124 using similar activities to further develop skills in part writing and analytical skills through study of harmonic sequence, secondary dominants, modulations, sevenths, mode mixture. Neapolitan chords, augmented sixth chords, and standard formal structures. Aural skills such as syncopation (simple and compound), melodic and harmonic dictation with intervals in contexts other than tonic and dominant, and inversions of major, minor, diminished and seventh chords will be studied. (Prerequisite:MUS 1124)
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