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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the musical figures, styles, and cultures of popular music in the US and the UK since 1945.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes reading, discussion, and writing on specialized topics in the history of American music. The topic varies from semester to semester and are announced before registration. Addresses such topics as Art Music in American Culture, Music and the Moving Image, Popular Music, Music and Drama, or Virtuoso Performers in America.
Prerequisite:
( MUHI 301 or MH 301 ) and ( MUHI 302 or MH 302 )
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3.00 Credits
Examines the musical and historical aspects of some representative works in foursignificant repertoires of nineteenth-century music: songs, characteristic works for piano,opera, and symphonies. Further examines how the works intersect with a number of social,cultural, aesthetic, political and economic themes that pervade the century, such as the riseof the middle class, city cultures, the domestic music market, the invention of the folk, nationalism and exoticism, social and political revolutions, idealism and its successors, and the virtuoso.
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2.00 Credits
Introduces skills musicians need to discern, recall, translate, and reproduce musical events. Explores treble and bass clef, rhythm in common meters, diatonic melody, and chord quality. Involves basic improvisation and keyboard harmony.
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2.00 Credits
Develops skills musicians need to discern, recall, translate, and reproduce musical events. Explores alto clef, rhythm in less common meters, diatonic melody and harmony, and instruments in B-flat. Involves basic improvisation and keyboard harmony.
Prerequisite:
( MUSC 111 or MU 111 )
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1.00 Credits
Reinforces the core concepts of MUSC 115 via recitation, written coursework, guided listening, and musicianship drills. Students who fail the department's undergraduate diagnostic exam must complete MUSC 113 in conjunction with MUSC 115.Prerequisite: Music major or instructor permission
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3.00 Credits
Introduces active listening and the materials of Western music via contemporary popular repertoire. Covers notation, basic pitch, and rhythm constructs, and analysis with and without score, as well as aspects of songwriting, production, and recording.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the materials, forms, and aesthetics of Western music, including popular music. Explores basic notation, temperament, scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, chord labels, and elements of musical form. Involves basic model composition.
Prerequisite:
MUSC 113
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3.00 Credits
Investigates the materials, forms, and aesthetics of Western music, including popular music. Explores diatonic harmony, embellishing tones, tonicization, common chord loops, and Classical phrase structure. Involves basic model composition.
Prerequisite:
( MUSC 115 or MU 115 )
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1.00 Credits
A chamber ensemble experience for brass performers.
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