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1.00 Credits
This ensemble is a second tier introductory level course for the smaller pop/rock combo. The song-based repertoire for the course is drawn from straightforward arrangements of traditional popular music material, including rock, pop and R&B. The course addresses the application of musicianship skills as they apply to ensemble awareness and effective rehearsal and performance techniques. 1 CREDIT COREQUISITES: 32-1100 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING I, 32-1120 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS I CONCURRENT: PRIMARY PRIVATE LESSONS
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3.00 Credits
Course is for sound engineers who wish to have working knowledge of music to function in a recording environment with musicians. Students gain understanding of different musical terms related to recording; learn to recognize different musical idioms; visually and aurally distinguish orchestral instruments; learn basic music theory; and follow a lead sheet, jazz score, or classical score. 3 CREDITS
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the various technology tools that will be used in courses throughout the music program. Topics will include softwares for score and lead sheet preparation, and an introduction to music creation in digital environments using virtual instruments, soft-synths, and the digital/audio workstation. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING I, 32-1120 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS I COREQUISITES: 32-2132 KEYBOARD II
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2.00 Credits
Knowledge obtained in Sightsinging, Musicianship, and Ear Training I is applied with extensive sightsinging and dictation of rhythmic exercises and diatonic melodies in one and two parts. Major, minor, and modal scales are explored as are more sophisticated rhythmic values and time signatures. Students perform a diatonic melody in major or minor without the aid of an instrument, sightsing a diatonic melody in major or minor, and sing a melody while playing a simple accompaniment on the piano. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING I, 32-1120 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS I
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2.00 Credits
Course continues development of skills acquired in Sightsinging and Musicianship I with extensive dictation and sightsinging of melody and rhythm in one, two, three, and four parts. Nondiatonic melodies as well as compound meters and polymeters are explored. Students perform chromatic melody in major, minor, or any mode without aid of an instrument; sightsing a chromatic melody in major, minor, or any mode; and sing a melody while playing a two-hand accompaniment on the piano. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-1120 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS I, 32-2111 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING II
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2.00 Credits
Course continues development of skills acquired in Sightsinging, Musicianship, and Ear Training II with extensive dictation and sightsinging of melody and rhythm that includes current musical procedures. Students perform one, two, three, and four part music containing chromatics, seventh chords, and mixed meters; sightsing a melody employing mixed meters; and sing a melody while playing an accompaniment that includes chromatics, seventh chords, and mixed meters. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2112 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING III, 32-2122 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS III, 32-2132 KEYBOARD II OR 32-2311 JAZZ KEYBOARD
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3.00 Credits
This is a harmony course with an emphasis on practical application. Material includes major and minor keys, the modes, inversions, voicing, harmonizing a melody, harmonic analysis, and extensive drill in recognizing and replicating triads and seventh cords. Students write chord progressions in four voices using diatonic and nondiatonic chords showing thorough voice-leading principles; effectively harmonize a melody with cadences, nonchord tones, root movements, and harmonic rhythm; and hear and identify harmonic progressions through dictation. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING I, 32-1120 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS I
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3.00 Credits
Advanced course in harmony emphasizes 19th century procedures including large chords in thirds, nonthird chords, and chord streams. Course deals with relationships among harmony, melody, and form. Students write chord progressions using diatonic and nondiatonic chords, including all types of seventh chords, secondary chords, modulatory progressions, and chord streams, and they hear and identify chord progressions through dictation. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2121 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS II, 32-2131 KEYBOARD I
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2.00 Credits
Students are instructed in playing the piano and becoming acquainted with the grand staff and note values. Students play major scales using both hands in any key; play pentachords and cadential sequences in all major and minor keys; analyze, play, and transpose short melodies in major and minor keys in either hand; harmonize longer melodies in major and minor keys; and perform a short piece from a piano score using both hands. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-1110 SIGHTSINGING, MUSICIANSHIP, AND EAR TRAINING I, 32-1120 THEORY, HARMONY, AND ANALYSIS I
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2.00 Credits
Continuing the work begun in Keyboard I, this course expands the sightreading of simple two-part pieces for the piano. Emphasis is on strength and positioning; coordination of the hands is more highly developed and stressed. Students harmonize melodies using broken chords and hand position changes; perform piano music using inversions and arpeggiated figures; and perform short ensemble pieces and longer solos from a piano score. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 32-2131 KEYBOARD I
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