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1.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) Exploration of the keyboard aimed at fluency in basic chordal progressions in all keys and modes. Simple transposition of melodies stressing interval relationships and using basic accompanying patterns. Sight-reading. Methods of keyboard improvisation are introduced. Regular and accelerated sections are offered. Prerequisites: The ability to read music and some basic piano study.
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1.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Exploration of the keyboard aimed at fluency in basic chordal progressions in all keys and modes. Simple transposition of melodies stressing interval relationships and using basic accompanying patterns. Sightreading. Methods of keyboard improvisation are introduced. Regular and accelerated sections are offered. Prerequisites: MUS-140.
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1.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) Introduction to sight-singing and ear-training through the basic elements of intervallic relationships, rhythm, and chord structure. Emphasis on converting notation to musical sound and musical sound back to notation. Basic conducting patterns must be mastered in conjunction with sight-singing. Use of programmed computer instruction in a lab setting to drill these skills. Students must be able to read music and to match pitch.
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1.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Introduction to sight-singing and ear-training through the basic elements of intervallic relationships, rhythm, and chord structure. Emphasis on converting notation to musical sound and musical sound back to nota- tion. Basic conducting patterns must be mastered in conjunction with sight-singing. Use of programmed computer instruction in a lab setting to drill these skills. Students must be able to read music and to match pitch. Prerequisites: MUS-150.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) Review and continuation, through analysis and composition, of functional harmony. Seventh, ninth, and eleventh chords. Study of form, analysis, counterpoint, 20th century techniques. Harmonic dictation. Prerequisites: MUS-101.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Review and continuation, through analysis and composition, of functional harmony. Seventh, ninth, and eleventh chords. Study of form, analysis, counterpoint, 20th century techniques. Harmonic dictation. Prerequisites: MUS-202.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Spring, and Summer, Course Offered Every Year) A course designed to impart an understanding of music as an element of liberal culture and to develop the power of listening intelligently. Masterworks in music literature will be learned. No technical knowledge is required.
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2.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) An introduction to music from a global perspective, to musical resources such as reference materials, to aural analysis of music, and to score analysis. Students learn to listen actively to music from folk, popular and art traditions, both Western and non-Western. The process of writing about music will be explored as will career opportunities in music. This course is a foundation for more advanced studies in music history and literature and is designed for music majors and for students with some formal music background. Required of freshman majors; prerequisite to music history and literature courses.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Odd-Numbered Years Only) This course in world music seeks to introduce students to the basic elements of music and demonstrate how these elements are used in the context of particular music cultures. Each time the course is offered a different region of the world will be focuses on (i.e. South and Central America, Asia and Oceania, Africa, Europe and North America, and the Middle East and Southern Asia). The course may be repeated for credit each time the focus changes. Prerequisite: CORE-100.
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2.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Survey of beginner methods and elementary literature, technique, and theory. Observation of lessons of beginning and elementary students. One class meeting and one observation per week. A separate section is offered for each applied area as needed. Prerequisites: MUS-101 MUS-215.
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