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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
The third semester of a four-semester series on the fundamentals of ear training, sight-singing, and dictation skills. Students demonstrate an understanding of notation, intervals, major and minor scales, key signatures, rhythm (including triplets and syncopation), and melodic sequences (including chromaticism). Students study and notate harmonic structures including all diatonic triads, dominant, and leading-tone seventh chords. Students apply appropriate principles of transforming sound into notation through the writing of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic examples from dictation, and the transformation of notation into sound with sight-singing with solfege. Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC 1045.
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3.00 Credits
The final semester of a four-semester series on the fundamentals of music and written harmony. Students demonstrate an understanding of the principles of late 19th-century impressionism, the music of the 20th century, such as modes, pantriadic technique, quartal harmony, 20th-century rhythm, polychords, pandiatonicism, serial, and 12-tone technique. Students apply appropriate principles of harmonization, melody, and form to basic musical composition and analyze these elements in musical exemplars. Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC 2030.
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The fourth semester of a four-semester series on the fundamentals of ear training, sight-singing, and dictation skills. Students demonstrate an understanding of notation, intervals, major and minor scales, key signatures, rhythm (including triplets, syncopation, and complex meter), and melodic sequences. Students study and notate harmonic sequences including diatonic, chromatic, secondary dominants, modulation, and 20th century harmonic language. Students apply appropriate principles of transforming sound into notation through the writing of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic examples from dictation, and the transformation of notation into sound with sight-singing with solfege. This course is offered in the spring.
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3.00 Credits
The first in a series of two courses on the history and literature of music. Students develop strategies for listening to the sounds of music in Western culture. Students identify the instruments, aesthetic structures, major composers, and typical styles of musical works from the Baroque through early 19th-century Romanticism. Including critical comparison with non-western and contemporary popular forms of music, students analyze the context, meaning, and historical impact of music in Western society. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1010.
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3.00 Credits
The second in a series of two courses on the history and literature of music. Students develop strategies for listening to the sounds of music in Western culture. Students identify the instruments, aesthetic structures, major composers, and typical styles of musical works from late 19th-century Romanticism through the present. Including critical comparison with non-western and contemporary popular forms of music, students analyze the context, meaning, and historical impact of music in Western society. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1010.
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1.00 Credits
A course designed to provide students with the materials, techniques, and concepts needed for developing basic jazz improvisation skills. Students acquire and apply knowledge about scales, chord structure, common chord progressions, and developing improvisational ideas. Prerequisite: Ability to perform on a musical instrument or voice, including (but not limited to) piano, guitar, bass, trumpet, trombone, and saxophone.
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1.00 Credits
A continuation of MUSC 2060. A course designed to provide students with the materials, techniques, and concepts needed for developing intermediate and advanced jazz improvisation skills. Students acquire and apply knowledge about scales, chord structure, common chord progressions, and developing improvisational ideas. Prerequisite: Successful completion of MUSC 2060.
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1.00 Credits
Private music lessons in voice, piano, organ, guitar, woodwind, brass, percussion, and string instruments with an approved college instructor. The student pays an additional lesson fee. May be repeated for up to eight times for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC 1052 on the same instrument.
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1.00 Credits
Private music lessons in voice, piano, organ, guitar, woodwind, brass, percussion, and string instruments with an approved college instructor. The student pays an additional lesson fee. May be repeated for up to eight times for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in MUSC 2071.
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1.00 Credits
A continuation of MUSC 1150. Students build on fundamentals and review bar chords, major and minor scales, two- and three-part harmony and various arpeggio picking patterns. Melodic development and solo playing will be included. May be repeated twice for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC 1150.
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