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2.00 Credits
Private music lessons designed for organ performance students. One 50-minute lesson per week and one performance class per week. Participation in a department recital and a final jury examination are required. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Perform with applicable technical proficiency. 2. Perform with appropriate artistry and interpretation. 3. Demonstrate musical literacy through relevant style and performance practices. 4. Sight read music as assigned by the instructor. Course fee required. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission. FA, SP
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2.00 Credits
Private music lessons designed for percussion performance students. One 50-minute lesson per week and one performance class per week. Participation in a department recital and a final jury examination are required. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Perform with applicable technical proficiency. 2. Perform with appropriate artistry and interpretation. 3. Demonstrate musical literacy through relevant style and performance practices. 4. Sight read music as assigned by the instructor. Course fee required. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. FA, SP
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3.00 Credits
Required of all Music majors. Third in a series of four Music Theory classes. Includes the study of chromatic harmony, 16th and 18th century counterpoint, 20th century compositional techniques, formal and harmonic analysis. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Analyze the form of a piece of music, and identify standard formal structures, such as Binary, Rounded Binary, Ternary, Sonata, and Rondo. 2. Analyze music that uses a variety of common chromatic devices, including secondary dominant chords, modulations, borrowed chords, Neapolitan chords, Augmented sixth chords, and other voice-leading techniques. 3. Compose music using a variety of common chromatic devices, including secondary dominant chords, modulations, borrowed chords, Neapolitan chords, Augmented sixth chords, and other voice-leading techniques. 4. Examine ways of describing and analyzing highly chromatic tonal music. Prerequisite: MUSC 1120. Corequisite: MUSC 2130. FA
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3.00 Credits
Required of all Music majors. Fourth and final course in Music Theory. Includes the study of chromatic harmony, 16th and 18th century counterpoint, 20th century compositional techniques, formal and harmonic analysis. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Analyze centric post-tonal music from the early-twentieth century, including features such as diatonic modes, non-diatonic scales, extended- and non-tertian harmonies, and polytonality. 2. Use basic pitch class set analysis to analyze post-tonal music. 3. Analyze and compose music using simple serial techniques. 4. Describe and critique 20th- and 21st-century experiments in pitch, rhythm, meter, form, timbre, and chance. Prerequisite: MUSC 2110. Corequisite: MUSC 2140. SP
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1.00 Credits
Required of all Music majors. The third of four courses in a series of ear training and sight singing courses dealing with aural and sight singing skills that parallel the theoretical material of Music Theory. Simple keyboard skills necessary. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Sing melodies with simple chromatic alterations or modulations to closely-related keys, and with increasing rhythmic complexity without aural assistance. 2. Aurally dictate melodies with simple chromatic alterations or modulations to closely-related keys, and with increasing rhythmic complexity. 3. Aurally dictate the outer voices and harmony in short, diatonic, 4-part chord progressions. Prerequisite: MUSC 1140. Corequisite: MUSC 2110. FA
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1.00 Credits
Required of all Music majors. The fourth and final course in ear training and sight singing courses dealing with aural and sight singing skills that parallel the theoretical material of Music Theory. Simple keyboard skills necessary. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Sing melodies with advanced chromaticism, and/or distant modulations without aural assistance. 2. Sing melodies employing diatonic modes without aural assistance. 3. Aurally dictate melodies with advanced chromaticism, and/or distant modulations. 4. Aurally dictate melodies employing diatonic modes. 5. Aurally dictate the outer voices and harmony in short, 4-part chord progressions that include common chromatic harmonies. Prerequisite: MUSC 2130. Corequisite: MUSC 2120. SP
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1.00 Credits
For non-Music majors and non-keyboard music majors. Prepares Music majors for Piano Proficiency Exam, which includes piano technique, sight-reading, accompanying, improvisation, transposition, and performance skills using electronic keyboards. Repeatable up to 2 credits subject to graduation restrictions. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate intermediate competency in note reading, rhythm, notation, and theory. 2. Perform basic intermediate skills in piano technique, repertoire, and sight-reading. 3. Achieve intermediate proficiency in harmonization, improvisation and transposition. 4. Begin completing the piano proficiency requirement for the bachelor's degree in music. Prerequisite: MUSC 1160R. FA, SP
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1.00 Credits
For non-Music majors and non-keyboard music majors. Prepares Music majors for Piano Proficiency Exam, which includes piano technique, sight-reading, accompanying, improvisation, transposition, and performance skills, using electronic keyboards. Repeatable up to 2 credits subject to graduation restrictions. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Perform piano proficiency skills in piano repertoire, technique, and sight-reading. 2. Perform piano proficiency skills in harmonization, improvisation, and transposition. 3. Complete the piano proficiency requirement for the bachelor's degree in music. Prerequisite: MUSC 2150R. FA, SP
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basics of music-specific computer technology. Topics covered include the use of notation software, basics of sound design in a digital audio workstation, MIDI technology, and the use of technology in live performance and in music education. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Create printed music using notation software. 2. Create streaming audio and video media demonstrating competency with various software and hardware tools. 3. Compose an original work utilizing MIDI sequencing. 4. Demonstrate the use of technology as a pedagogical and self-assessment tool. FA
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2.00 Credits
Required of all Music majors, but open to other students with an interest in ensemble conducting. Covers the fundamental aspects of conducting choral and/or instrumental groups. Topics include: basic patterns, cueing, use of the left hand, offbeat entrances, fermatas, caesuras, tenuto, dynamics. Students are involved in conducting the class both as conductor and ensemble member. Concert attendance for purposes of viewing other conductors is required. Students must have some background in vocal or instrumental ensembles and be able to read music. Students who successfully complete this course will have improved ability to conduct choral and/or instrumental music. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Conduct music using fundamental conducting gestures. 2. Use nonverbal communication to convey an aural image. 3. Develop a fundamental understanding of the score. 4. Assess rehearsals and performances of self and others. 5. Demonstrate basic rehearsal methods and techniques. FA, SP (even)
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