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3.00 Credits
MUSC 2025 Intro to World Music (3L,3CR) Students learn strategies for how to listen to and compare the sound of various musical cultures. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of the local contexts of these musical expressions and how music carries meaning through complex networks of signification (e.g. ethnic identity, race, class, political, religious, economic, historical, technological, etc.)
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3.00 Credits
MUSC 2030 Written Theory III (3L,3CR) [E] A continuation of MUSC 1040. Covers two- and three-voice counterpoint; common classical schemata, including cadences, sequences, and the Rule of the Octave; the nature of chordal inversion, harmonic dissonance and resolution, chromatic alterations, and modulation; and simple classical forms. Required for all music majors. Prerequisite: MUSC 1040.
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1.00 Credits
MUSC 2035 Aural Theory III (2LB,1CR) [E] A continuation of MUSC 1045. Instruction in how to hear (dictate) and read (sight-sing) music fluently. Includes continued instruction in rhythms (supertriplets and hemiola); chromatic melodies in major and minor featuring stepwise motion and chromatic skips; and chromatic harmonies. This course is designed to be taken with MUSC 2030. Required for all music majors.Prerequisite: MUSC 1045.
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3.00 Credits
MUSC 2040 Written Theory IV (3L,3CR) [E] A continuation of MUSC 2030. Covers enharmonicism, linear chromaticism, and basic neo-Riemannian theory; pitch centricity, symmetry, and atonality; basic set theory; and other rhythmic, formal, melodic, and harmonic processes of 20th- and 21st-century classical music. Required for all music majors. Prerequisite: MUSC 2030.
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1.00 Credits
MUSC 2045 Aural Theory IV (2LB,1CR) [E] A continuation of MUSC 2035. Instruction in how to hear (dictate) and read (sight-sing) music fluently. Includes continued instruction in meter and rhythms (asymmetric and changing meters, quintuplets, and septuplets); melodies and harmonies featuring modulation; melodies featuring whole tone and octatonic scales and other common non-diatonic pitch collections; and aural recognition of musical forms. This course is designed to be taken with MUSC 2040. Required for all music majors.Prerequisite: MUSC 2035.
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3.00 Credits
MUSC 2050 Historical Perspectives in Music II(3L,3CR) Continuation of materials and topics covered in Historical Perspectives in Music I. Study of the composers and repertoire from ca. 1600 to 1800.
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3.00 Credits
MUSC 2055 Historical Perspectives in Music III (3L,3CR)[E] Continuation of material and topics covered in Perspectives in Music II. Study of composers and repertoire from 1800 to the present.
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1.00 Credits
MUSC 2060 Jazz Improvisation I (2LB,1CR) Offers the jazz-oriented student an organized approach to learning the extemporaneous creation of music in the jazz idiom. This creation is expressed by music performance. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
MUSC 2063 Blues, Jazz, and Rock (3L,3CR)Blues, Jazz, and Rock traces the roots of American popular music from its inception during the 16th century until the present day. The course will discuss the genres of blues, jazz, and rock and how each of these grew from the musical tradition that preceded it. Additionally, the course will explore the unique geography and cultural influences that helped inspire each of the three genres discussed in the course.
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1.00 Credits
MUSC 2065 Jazz Improvisation II (2LB,1CR) A continuation of Jazz Improvisation I. Students will apply skills acquired in Improvisation I to jazz standards while learning more advanced scales, chord structures and techniques. Prerequisite: MUSC 2060.
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