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Course Criteria
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0.00 Credits
To be a successful musician, it is essential to develop excellent listening skills. Professional musicians are familiar with a wide variety of genres and styles. This course provides music students with opportunities to become familiar with the diversity of music that exists in our world. With this in mind, music majors and minors are expected to attend concerts and recitals on a regular basis. During the first two years of study, concert attendance is required and tracked by the department office staff. Students must concurrently enroll in applied music lessons. Credit/no credit grading.
Prerequisite:
MUSC 1601 and MUSC 1610 and MUSC 1611 and MUSC 1620 and MUSC 1630 and MUSC 1631 and MUSC 1632 and MUSC 1633 and MUSC 1634 and MUSC 1640 and MUSC 1641 and MUSC 1642 and MUSC 1643 and MUSC 1650 and MUSC 1651 and MUSC 1652 and MUSC 1653 and MUSC 1654 and MUSC 1655 and MUSC 1660 and MUSC 1673
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to music, its elements, language, and historical development. The course focuses on European and American music with components of jazz, world, and popular genres. Concert attendance outside of regularly scheduled class time is required. Not available to music majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a broad Introduction to the Arts and Humanities as seen through the lenses of Plato's "Big Three": The Good, The True and The Beautiful. The perspective of the Good will be taken to look at the Arts and Humanities in society (their Role), that of the True to explore their scientific side (their Nature), and that of the Beautiful to investigate our interior, personal experience (their Meaning).
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Country Music styles from ca. 1920 to the present. We also discuss related styles such as Hillbilly, Rock, jazz, folk, Bluegrass and popular song, reaching back into the nineteenth century. We will not only study the changing history of country music (which requires discussion of non-country music as well), but also the cultural forces that gave rise to those changes. Because of this historical perspective, our approach will be largely chronological, with an eye toward how various styles influenced one another.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of jazz in America, including blues, ragtime, traditional jazz, swing, bebop, cool, and fusion. Concert attendance outside of regularly scheduled class time is required.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of music in America, including classical, jazz, rock, folk, and ethnic, within the context of American history.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Rock Music styles from ca. 1950 to the present. We also discuss pre- and proto- rock styles such as Jazz, Blues, and popular song, reaching back into the late nineteenth century. In the course we will not only study the changing history of rock music (which requires discussion of non-rock music as well), but also the cultural forces that gave rise to those changes. Because of this historical perspective, our approach will be largely chronological, with an eye toward how various styles influenced one another.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the music of cultures around the world, including India, Middle East, China, Japan, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Latin America, Carribbean, Native American music and Ethnic North America. The course discusses the influence of music on, and its relationship to, the various cultures and populations.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a chronological introduction to mostly western music that also explores its relationship to the other arts.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to music in world religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism.
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