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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Becker Content: Developing listening skills, understanding musical concepts and the elements of music, examining the work of several major jazz figures. Styles from jazz roots through contemporary. For students with little or no background in music. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
E. Beck, Skipworth, Staff Content: Characteristics and sources of musical sounds, elements of music, musical texture. Examples from a variety of forms, periods, and styles including non-Western and popular music. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Berkman, Staff Content: Examination of musics from around the world. Familiarity with a variety of musics, understanding them in their own terms and in relation to the cultures that produce them. Specific content may change from year to year. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Pitch, interval recognition, sight-singing; musical elements of melody, rhythm, basic harmony; rudiments of conducting and music notation. Prerequisites: Music 101 or placement examination. Concurrent enrollment in Music 121. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Functional diatonic harmony and voice leading in the styles of the common practice period. Keyboard harmony and figured bass in four voices. Elementary counterpoint, formal analysis, rhythmic structures, modulation. Prerequisites: Music 101 or placement exam. Concurrent enrollment in Music 111. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: New music examined through recordings, articles, reviews, lectures, live concerts. Focus on Western classic tradition of the last decade, at times crossing over to jazz, multimedia rock, non-Western culture. Recent developments in music worldwide, new material each year. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 2 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
E. Beck Content: Compositions from the Middle Ages to Bach and Handel. Medieval, Renaissance, baroque periods; musical forms developed during these periods; evolution of musical theory and performance practice. Prerequisite: Music 121 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
E. Beck Content: Representative compositions from Haydn and Mozart to those by living composers. Classical, romantic, and modern periods; musical forms developed during those periods; evolution of musical theory and performance practice. Prerequisite: Music 162 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Berkman Content: Intensive study of four music culture areas: India, Indonesia, West Africa, and Latin America. Hands-on exploration of specific genres and their structural principles. Corresponding readings that seek to understand how music functions in or as culture. Prerequisite: Music 111, 121, or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Music representing formal and informal traditions in American culture, especially in the 20th century. Emphasis on oral traditions, roots of blues and jazz, and the relationship of music to other arts, society, and culture. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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