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1.00 Credits
This course is for students wanting additional experience playing in a jazz band ensemble. Music reading ability and facility on an instrument is required. Attendance at weekly rehearsals and concerts is required. Students will learn proper performance styles for the jazz and commercial idiom. Solo opportunities for improvisation are afforded each performer. Lecture ( 7.50) Laboratory ( 30.00) Prerequisites: MUS-115
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3.00 Credits
No previous music training is needed for this course, which is an introduction to the technicalities of music and the skills needed to interpret written music. For music majors, this course is a pre- requisite or may be taken concurrently with Music Theory I. This course also serves as an elective for non-music majors. Lecture ( 45.00)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the technicalities of ear training and sight reading. Students will acquire some proficiency in the basics of identifying and vocally reproducing musical elements. Lecture ( 45.00) Prerequisites: MUS-121
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn to construct and recognize: clefs, note values, simple and compound meters, enharmonic equivalents, circle of fifths, key signatures, major and minor scales; relative major and minor and parallel major and minor, intervals, triads, seventh chords, root position, 1st and 2nd inversions, and figured bass. Lecture ( 45.00)
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn to identify and construct triads on each step of major and minor scales, primary and secondary triads, rules governing doubling and spacing of root position and 1st and 2nd inversion, phase structure, six cadences, and basic harmonic progressions and substitutions. Lecture ( 45.00) Prerequisites: MUS-123
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Class Piano I is a beginning course in piano instruction intended to provide students with a hands-on introduction to keyboard musicianship and proficiency within a group setting. Piano is arguably the most vital instrument in developing both theory and musicianship skills. Therefore, students will be expected to develop class concepts with numerous hours of practice outside of class. Lecture ( 7.50) Laboratory ( 30.00)
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Rhythm Workshop is a course designed to give students a practical knowledge of each instrument of the rhythm section. Students will acquire basic skills on guitar, bass, and drums. Classes will focus on the technical aspects of each of the instruments. This experience will help the student to better understand and appreciate performances of rhythm instruments. Lecture ( 7. 50) Laboratory ( 30.00)
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3.00 Credits
Fundamentals of Music for Sound Engineers is a course in aural skills development and music theory. Focus is placed on fundamental skills and knowledge necessary for working in a recording studio. This course includes study of pitches and rhythms, the grand staff, various historical styles of music, acoustic and electronic instrument timbres, general instrument ranges and sonic properties, analysis and application of melodic and rhythmic constructions, chord progressions and song forms, harmonic techniques used in commercial music, modern chord notation and chord voicing, tools of the recording process, balance, equalization, panning, reverb, compression and limiting. Lecture ( 45.00)
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1.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide students in the Music Recording Certificate program the means to gain functional proficiency in piano and keyboard skills. The keyboard is the primary musical instrument with which modern recording engineers and producers interact with computer-based recorders and digital audio workstations. Emphasis is on the operation of modern electronic keyboard instruments, MIDI, and developing the fundamental musical skills used in contemporary music production. These skills will be applied to individual projects in the course. Lecture ( 15.00)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Audio Recording is an introduction to the physical properties of sound and to the various technologies used to record and reproduce sound. This course includes a study of the physical attributes of sound and the physics of musical instruments, acoustic properties of the ear and of closed environments, the interrelationships and differences of physical acoustics and psychoacoustics. This course also includes a study of the fundamentals of sound recording techniques and methodology, a general history of recording, acoustics, basic electronics, the decibel, magnetism, tape recorders and tape formats, mixers, signal processing, monitoring systems, acoustic, electronic and wave-form analysis concepts, microphone characteristics, selection, and placement, proper studio etiquette, and professionalism. This course also emphasizes the importance of sound aesthetics and ethics in the sound recording process, signal routing, tape machine operation techniques, console and tape machine theory and operation concepts, studio production procedures including recording, overdubbing, mixing, and editing, reaction of sound to surfaces and time delays. No previous musical background or recording experience required. However, an active interest in digital audio, recording techniques, sound reinforcement and sound studio maintenance is necessary. Lecture ( 45.00)
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