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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) An introductory course open to all non-music majors, as well as music majors who have had no previous piano training.This class will include the elements of music, fundamental skills of sight reading, piano technique, and keyboard harmony. Pieces assigned will provide experience with a wide range of piano literature - Baroque through 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) Designed for the student to begin the development of basic vocal technique through class ensemble and solo singing. Repertoire will be chosen from a broad spectrum of styles and periods.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of accurate and idiomatic pronunciation in the French, German, and Italian languages, with emphasis on classic lyric (sung) diction. Students learn to read and write in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and learn the process of analyzing and transcribing foreign pronunciation using the IPA.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) Open to all non-music majors, this course has as its main objective the training of students in intelligent listening and seeks to acquaint them with a variety of musical works. Listening, selected readings, live performance, and discussion will form a part of the course.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) A study of the historical and cultural background of Medieval and Renaissance music, both sacred and secular, with special attention given to the forms which developed during these periods.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) A study of the origins and development of Baroque music and its culmination in the works of the masters of the late Baroque. Emphasis will be placed on the developing instrumental genres as well as on the rise of opera and other vocal forms.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) A study of the development of themusic of the Classical period within the context of the late 18th century European society. Special emphasis will be on the lives and the works of Haydn,Mozart, early Beethoven, and on the development of the sonata, symphony, the opera, and the concerto.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) A study of the development of Romantic literature from Beethoven throughWagner and post-Romantic. Attention will focus on symphonic forms, piano, vocal literature, opera,music, drama, and the expression of nationalism through music.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) This course is a study of 20th-century art music, tracing its roots in post-Romanticism and Impressionism and its development throughout the century. Emphasis is given to important composers, including Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg, Copland, Cage, and Varese, as well as major musical trends, primitivism, nationalism, neoclassicism, neo-romanticism, serialism, electronic music, and aleatoric approaches.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) Beethoven's biographical data, letters, conversation notebooks as well as his responses to and relationships with Napoleon, Schiller, Goethe, patrons, friends,musical colleagues, and nephew are studied. Representative musical works and the societal and historical forces that affected and influenced the development of his musical style are also explored.
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