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2.00 Credits
This course provides group instruction for beginning level students. Students learn to read music and develop technical facility at the piano through preparation and performance of progressively difficult music. Keyboard ensemble activities provide additional opportunities for musical development. F, S
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2.00 Credits
This course provides group instruction for intermediate level students. Students further develop music skills and technical facility at the piano through reparation and performance of progressively difficult music. Keyboard ensemble activities provide additional opportunities for musical development. PR: MUS 181 F, S
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3.00 Credits
This course explores practical, legal and procedural problems encountered in the music industry with emphasis upon music merchandising, music publishing, recording, arts management and copyright law. A variety of other career areas are surveyed, providing orientation for those preparing for employment in the music business as well as those preparing to transfer to four-year programs in music merchandising and other fields. S
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2.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the study of jazz improvisation. Topics to be discussed include chord scales, modes, arpeggios and harmonic formulae. Special emphasis will be placed on common compositional forms such as ABA, AABA, The Blues, and "rhythm" changes.The music to be studied includes compositions by Ellington, Parker, Coltrane, Gershwin and Kern. PR: MUS 152 F
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2.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the musical craft of arranging, the setting of music for various combinations of instruments. Topics will include transpositions, instrument ranges, voicings, and writing for jazz and commercial rhythm sections. Students will participate in class exercises and prepare and conduct weekly assigned arrangements as well as a final project. PR: MUS 152 S
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2.00 Credits
Theory III builds on the concepts of Theory II and covers two-voice eighteenth century counterpoint, extended and chromatic harmony (extensions, borrowed chords, Neapolitan 6th chords, augmented 6th chords, and altered dominants) and sonata form. The course begins with a review of the basic concepts of Theory II. PR: MUS 152 CR: MUS 255 F
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2.00 Credits
Theory IV builds on the concepts of Theory III and covers rondo forms, chromaric mediants, variation technique, enharmonic modulation, common tone diminished 7th chords, Impressionism, the contemporary period, set theory and twelve-tone technique. PR: MUS 251 CR: MUS 256 S
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1.00 Credits
This course continues with the fundamentals of tonal music, scales, rhythmic patterns, modes, triads, seventh chords, and chord patterns and includes modulations, non-harmonic tones, inversions of seventh chords and four-voice chord progressions and patterns. It adds chromatic and secondary harmonies, ninth chords and non-traditional meters. Students are trained to aurally recognize, notate and vocally reproduce these elements. The course also emphasizes sight singing and the use of solfeggio as a learning and study tool. PR: MUS 156 CR: MUS 251 F
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1.00 Credits
This course continues with the fundamentals of tonal music, scales, rhythmic patterns, modes, triads, seventh chords and chord patterns, and includes modulations, non-harmonic tones, inversion of seventh chords, four-voice chord progressions and patterns, chromatic and secondary harmonies, ninth chords, borrowed chords, altered dominant harmony, chromatic mediant harmonies, foreign modulation, and non-functional harmony. It adds Impressionist devices, 12-tone technique and other 20th century elements. Students are trained to aurally recognize, notate, and vocally reproduce these elements. The course also emphasizes sight singing and the use of solfeggio as a learning and study tool. Preparing for transfer auditions is emphasized. PR: MUS 255 CR: MUS 252 S
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3.00 Credits
Literature and Style I is a comprehensive survey of Western art music dating from ancient Greece through the end of the Classical period. The course also includes a brief introductory unit surveying each of the major style periods of Western music. PR: Successful music degree program audition CR: MUS 151, 155 F
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