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  • 1.00 Credits

    This course provides basic instrumental or vocal techniques and beginning literature in a variety of styles from classical to jazz to modern. Performance and applied students are assigned to private instructors by the Music Coordinator. Students must pay instructors directly for their lessons. An agreement between the student and the instructor regarding the cost of the lessons and the schedule of payments will be determined during the first lesson of the semester.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course is a continuation of Performance and Applied Music I. It provides instrumental or vocal techniques and beginning to intermediate level literature in a variety of styles from classical to jazz to modern. Performance and applied students are assigned to private instructors by the Music Coordinator. Students must pay instructors directly for their lessons. An agreement between the student and the instructor regarding the cost of the lessons and the schedule of payments will be determined during the first lesson of the semester.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed for musicians and requires prior knowledge and ability to read music. The place of music in Western civilization as studied in representative works of each period is examined. It is a comprehensive chronological study of the periods and schools of vocal and instrumental music, sacred and secular, and a study of the beginnings of Western musical thought in ancient Greece to the end of the Baroque era in 1750.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A continuation of MUS 201, this course covers music history from 1750 to the present. Developments, trends, and styles in instrumental and vocal genres of representative composers of the classic, romantic, impressionist, and modern periods are studied and compared. Prerequisite: MUS201
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course provides a laboratory environment for the aspiring musical theater student to enhance his/her vocal skills and overall stage presentation through the study of selected repertoire from the musical theater genre. Songs from different periods of musical theater will be studied to familiarize the student with the wide variety of repertoire in the genre. Classroom performance of the repertoire is required. A public concert may be scheduled at the end of the semester. Note: Enrollment in MUS 121 is strongly encouraged. Pre- or Co-requisite: MUS 113.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course is a continuation of Vocal Repertoire I. It will provide a more advanced laboratory environment for the aspiring musical theater students to enhance his/her vocal skills and overall stage presentation through the study of selected repertoire from the musical theater genre. Songs from different periods of musical theater will be studied to familiarize the student with the wide variety of repertoire in the genre. Classroom performance of the repertoire is required. A public concert may be scheduled at the end of the semester. Note: Enrollment in MUS 121 is strongly encouraged. Prerequisite: MUS 205. Pre- or Co-requisite: MUS 113.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is individual intensive private study of an instrument or voice preparing for entrance into a four-year college or conservatory applied music program. The student should have previous private instrumental or vocal instruction. Students are responsible for substantial additional fees to private lesson instructors.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is continued intensive private study of an instrument or voice directed toward auditions for entrance into a four-year college or conservatory applied music program. Students should have previous private instrumental or vocal instruction. Students are responsible for substantial additional fees to private lesson instructors.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed for both musicians and non-musicians. It is a comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and major trends in American Musical Theater. The course moves chronologically from the late nineteenth century genres of vaudeville and minstrel shows to the early twentieth century genre of the operetta. Tin Pan Alley composers are studied along with the emergence of the musical comedy. Major musical comedy composers such as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and George Gershwin are introduced. The great "book" musicals of the 1950's and 1960's are studied. The era of the rock musical is followed by recent trends in musical theater.
  • 0.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Basic techniques of creating electronic music will be explored beginning with simple techno and techno-ambient loops gradually moving into the more experimental and complex structures of avant-guard electro-acoustic music. A basic music course or some basic knowledge of the notes on a keyboard and ability to play an instrument is helpful. More serious music study is useful but not required. Students unsure of their background should seek permission of the instructor. Note: Students must register for both a lecture and a lab. 2 Lecture, 2 Lab, 3 Credit Hours.
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