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3.00 Credits
Development of aural skills (sight singing, dictation, transcription), scale/cord theory, and part-writing.
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3.00 Credits
Development of aural skills (sight singing, dictation, transcription), diatonic harmony, modal systems, chromaticism, and elementary composition. Recommended Preparation: MUSC 203, or passing score on Theory Diagnostic Exam.
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2.00 Credits
Private or small group music lessons. Prerequisites: Normally open only to Visual and Performing Arts Music Option students with less than one year of lower-division studio music study or who are placed at this level through audition. Students approved for MUSC 293 must be enrolled in appropriate ensembles at CSUSM. May be repeated for a maximum of eight (8) units. Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to computers and their use in a musical context. Includes an historical overview of the field and in-depth investigation of the use of computers and synthesizers in creating musical compositions (both printed and recorded). Students will learn the basics of synthesis, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface, the language by which computers and synthesizers can "talk" to each other),sequencing, computer music notation, and random computer-generated compositional processes. Computer ethics and word processing will also be covered. Projects will be completed in Microsoft Word (word processing), Vision (sequencing), Finale (notation), and M (random compositional processes.) Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced work in the analysis of music and the application of current and historical theories. A study of the elements, genre and structures using examples drawn from a broad historical and cultural spectrum to be taken concurrently with Process of Art I. Enrollment Requirement: MUSC 205.
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3.00 Credits
A technical review of the art of studio and field recording techniques. Students will learn basic and advanced microphone techniques, the uses of analog and digital recording devices, special signal processing, and digital and analog mixing. Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Helps the student develop highly honed listening skills. Music from many cultures including Euro-American concert music, music from India, Japan, Africa, South America, Eastern Europe, and the United States form the core of the examples studied. No single historical period or national style dominates. The emphasis is placed on perception of musical elements that are common to all music of the world, the acoustical foundations of music, and aesthetics. Music is viewed within a social and cultural context. Attendance of concerts is a required part of the course.
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3.00 Credits
Study of selected folk songs from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Explores issues associated with the context of the songs, their social function, gender, status, and age differences of the performer/composer. Requires students to learn to sing songs in their original language, complete group research projects that focus on a single cultural group, learn the techniques of song analysis, and complete an ethnographic case study with a local folk musician.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural studies of the music identified with worship. Examples drawn from Africa, Europe, United States, the Caribbean, South America, Islam, East Asia, and India.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction both to the great diversity of the world's popular musics, and to some of the issues involved in the production of popular music worldwide. Musics addressed will cover a broad geographic area, including parts of Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Middle-East, and South, East, and Southeast Asia. Issues of religion, gender, politics, ethnic or regional identity, cultural property, appropriation, and mass-media will be examined as influential factors informing popular music practices across geographic and cultural boundaries.
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