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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. MU 151 - The student solidifies her understanding and skills learned in MU 151 and expands her ability to identify basic elements by seeing them in various contexts, such as tonal function, stylistic traits, or formal patterns. She continues using the multiactivity approach initiated in MU 151. Melodic and rhythmic content include one- and two-part exercises in major, minor, and church modes. The harmonic content includes choral style, using primary and secondary triads, dominant seventh chords, and simple modulatory processes. The student reinforces and demonstrates her understanding of musical elements and procedures through practical application of the keyboard. The Kodaly concept of solfège is continued.
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0.00 Credits
- At the end of every semester of private lessons in an instrument or voice, the student performs material that she has studied to receive feedback from a cross-section of music faculty. These assessments, traditionally called music juries, are graduated in number based upon the minimum three consecutive years of private instruction that a major takes in preparation for her culminating recital.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - The student works with the materials of improvisation in an accessible way in "fail-safe," hands-onmusical activities, and she studies how improvisation operates in a number of different music cultures. The course is open to students with any degree of musical experience; however, students who play an instrument or who sing are expected to participate in these activities.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - The student explores the music of African-Americans as it expresses their lives and values, in slavery as well as in post-slavery times in the United States. The student learns about the contributions that black musicians have made to the richness of American music, the impact made on European-based musical styles, and vice versa.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - The music of various Native American groups within the Americas yields many varieties of style according to the cultural practices and habitats of these groups. The student relates the music of each area to its cultural characteristics and beliefs. Influences of other nations, such as Spain, are also explored in relation to attitudes toward change.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - Music in Caribbean and Latin American countries features a blending of Spanish, West African, Indian, and European traditions. The student listens to music examples and analyzes them for cultural influences. She reads about music styles in Mexico, Trinidad, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil and examines Hispanic music in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
- In this course, the student continues the study of tonality as it is affected by chromatics and exemplified in music of the Classical and Romantic periods. She sharpens her perception of tonality scheme and interplay of elements within larger and more complex works. The student reinforces and demonstrates her understanding of musical elements and procedures through practical application of the keyboard. The Kodaly concept of solfège is continued.
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3.00 Credits
- See DA 250.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - In this first of two period courses, the student is introduced to music within a historical perspective. She learns how to explore the interrelationships of music events, musical styles, forms and genres, and contemporaneous societal conditions. Representative works of earlyWestern music through Baroque are studied, along with selected world music. (The 3-credit course for music majors includes a lab.)
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3.00 Credits
Prereq. MU 261 - The student continues to examine music within its historical setting. The music studied is from the Classical and Romantic periods; music from the 20th century is introduced. (The 3-credit course for music majors includes a lab.)
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