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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0; J Introduction to music from the Middle Ages to the present; study of forms and styles, composers and performers, cultural and social backgrounds, and parallel developments in other arts. Lecturer and listening assignments. Concert attendance required.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 An exploration of the roots of blues, jazz, and rock music in America. Musicological and socio-historical developments that helped formulate today's jazz and rock movements from the 1920s to the 1990s.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0; J Survey of representative art and popular music cultures of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Lectures and listening assignments. Concert attendance required.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/ 0J Music notation, aural and written. Scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, rhythms, simple and compound meters, elementary recitation, dictation, analysis, and composition.
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1.00 Credits
1, 0/3 Corequisite: MUS 230. Laboratory course for those with basic music-reading skills. Reinforces theoretical music concepts in the form of sight singing, rhythmic, melodic dictation, and basic musicianship. A diagnostic test is given at the beginning of the semester. Required for music majors.
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1.00 Credits
1, 0/3 Prerequisites: MUS 218 and MUS 230. Corequisite: MUS 231. Continuation and development of the melodic, rhythmic, and musicianship skills acquired in MUS 218. Required for music majors.
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2.00 Credits
2, 3/0 Prerequisites: MUS 230 and MUS 231, or permission of instructor. Students gain knowledge of current technology applications suitable for music instruction, including administrative applications, software for notation and composition, and MIDI-based sequencing, as well as teaching methods and strategies for using technology in music classrooms and ensembles; incorporates extensive hands-on activities.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: Basic music-reading skills. Corequisite: MUS 218. Fundamentals of music, including notation, scales, modes, tonality, key signatures, intervals, basic chords, basic harmony, voice leading, melodic structures, and the general stylistic features of the various epochs of Western music.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: MUS 230 and MUS 218. Corequisite: MUS 219. Continuation of the fundamentals of music, with emphasis on harmony, voice leading, and simple formal structures within the contexts of the various historical periods of Western music. Required for music majors.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair. Supervised projects in an area of music study not addressed by current offerings, such as, but not restricted to, composition and theory, sound recording, computer music and computer music editing; common seminar. MUS 450 is an all-college elective.
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