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4.00 Credits
The Chamber Orchestra consists of string players from the College and surrounding community. This group rehearses twice a week and performs at least once each semester. Music ranges from the Baroque era to popular contemporary. Smaller string ensembles are formed from the larger group, providing experience in chamber music performance. Students wishing to participate in orchestra as a non-credited course must fulfill credited class requirements and have permission of the director. Students receive one course unit of credit upon completion of four semesters of MUS 104 with a grade of C or better. For non-concentrators, this fulfills the general studies fine arts requirement. An additional four semesters may be taken for elective credit.
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4.00 Credits
The Concert Choir rehearses twice weekly in preparation for various on-campus programs. The choir experience includes choral literature from chant through the present, giving all members opportunity for personal vocal development through a variety of choral traditions. Membership is determined by audition. Students wishing to participate in concert choir as a non-credited course must fulfill credited class requirements and have permission of the director.
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1.00 Credits
Equivalent to one-quarter unit for a one-half hour private lesson per week per semester. This applied music credit cannot be used to satisfy the general studies requirement. The course may be repeated. Four applied music semesters will count as one elective course. Students are expected to spend three hours per week in outside preparation and to advance according to the level of their ability. Students registering for any section of MUS 109 are automatically placed with a teacher who will contact them to arrange a lesson time. Students wishing to take lessons without academic credit must fulfill credited lesson requirements. See the department chair for details. Additional music lab fee. NOTE: A student will receive one course unit of credit after successfully completing (with a grade of C or better) four semesters of MUS 109. The grade for each semester is determined by a jury performance evaluation. This course unit is for elective credit only and cannot be used to satisfy the general studies arts requirement.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the genesis of popular music in English-speaking North America from the colonial period to the present, with emphasis on the period beginning in the 1890s just before the breakout of jazz, to the present-day multi-billion dollar industry of rock, pop, R&B, rap/hip-hop, country, dance/electronica and the emergent world styles that also form part of the evolving contemporary American musical scene. Lectures place equal emphasis on the musical styles themselves and their social context, including the role of composers, audiences, promoters, money and music industry organizations. Lectures and discussion are enlivened by diverse music listening experiences. Films and film excerpts showing the influence of popular music in the movies will be viewed and discussed.
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4.00 Credits
From software to sound mixer, music management to music sales, composer to copyright administrator, advertising to attorney, teacher to technician, this course examines the many different career fields that make the music industry profitable and progressive. Each week focuses on a different area of the music business that drives performing artists to stardom- or not. Class discussion includes basic information about potential earnings, education required, job potential and personal qualifications and skills required for a career in the music industry. Guest artists and visits to music retail and manufacturing outlets augment the learning experience. Elective credit only. This course does not fulfill the general studies fine arts requirement.
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4.00 Credits
This course offers an overview of Western classical musical styles, with an emphasis on the symphonic repertory and music by well-known composers such as Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. Other genres including opera, chamber music, the art song and church music, will also be explored. The course focuses on developing basic musical vocabulary and listening skills, skills that are also applicable to listening to and thinking about popular musical styles. The connections between music and social context are also be discussed. Concert attendance and listening assignments are part of the course experience.
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4.00 Credits
A grand tour of the musical styles of the world's large culture regions: sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the Islamic world, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, East Asia, Amerindia and the Western world. Students are introduced to basic musical concepts with emphasis on understanding musical instrument types and their characteristic sounds. Students listen to recordings of ancient and medieval folk music types of traditional rural communities (work songs, harvest songs, lullabies); the art music of the aristocratic courts (including the South Asian raga and the Western symphony); and the modern musical styles emerging in the contemporary urban and electronic age, from Chinese rock to African rap. Film viewings help students link the diverse musical sounds with social contexts. A visit from a world musician is planned each semester.
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4.00 Credits
This course covers jazz history from its obscure origins in the post-Civil War period to the present. The focus is on important instrumentalists and vocalists of the 20th century, and how they helped to create the different jazz and jazz-related styles, including: ragtime, blues, hot jazz, Dixieland, swing, bebop, cool jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion. Among the key perform ers and composers to be discussed are Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett. Basic concepts of jazz performance and various jazz styles are explored through independent research, listening and discussion. When possible, field trips to live jazz performances are incorporated.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the role of music in cinema, with emphasis on North American films between the 1930s and the present. Students learn how music aids in the creation of mood, atmosphere and characterization in films. Special topics include music in the silent film era, musicals, science fiction and horror films, the role of women as subjects and creators in modern cinema, music in the avant-garde and experimental cinema, popular music, rock and rap in film soundtracks, and music in selected non-Western film industries. Films to be discussed include classics such as Star Wars, The Godfather and Casablanca, as well as popular recent releases.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic concepts and applications of music theory. Topics include pitch notation, scales, key signatures, intervals, chords and simple harmonization, and rhythmic notation. This course is designed for students with little or no musical background.
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