Music (MUSC)
Prerequisites: 10 hrs applied piano.
Description: The history, materials, and methodologies of piano pedagogy from a perspective of wellness promotion. Special issues pertaining to teaching beginning, intermediate, and advanced students. Observation experience and a supervised teaching practicum.
Prerequisites: MUSC 424/824.
Description: Issues pertinent to studio piano teaching, including business issues, developing effective strategies for teaching selected musical and technical skills. Observation experience and a supervised teaching practicum.
Prerequisites: MUSC 824
MUSC 826 requires observation experience and a supervised teaching practicum.
Description: Teaching methods and literature. Identification of musical/interpretive and technical challenges in literature. Development of strategies for sequencing literature.
This course is a prerequisite for: MUSC 827
MUSC 827 requires observation experience and a supervised teaching practicum.
Description: Teaching piano in group settings. Relational dynamics and curricular issues. Individual research and writing on selected topic of interest serves as a culminating experience for the piano pedagogy course sequence.
Description: Music as a field of scholarly inquiry, incorporating basic research tools and techniques.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366.
Description: The history of jazz from its musical antecedents in the Nineteenth Century to the birth of modern jazz via Bebop in the 1940s. Important musical artists and trends within the larger context of American history in the Twentieth Century.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366.
Description: The development of modern jazz from the late 1940s to the present. Important artists and trends within the larger context of American history in the Twentieth Century.
Description: Roles and functions of music among various groups of people. Importance of music in the development of children and young people, specialized meanings of music that distinguish musicians from non-musicians, and a survey of musical cultures from around the world.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission
Description: Concepts and models of creativity applied to the practice and performance of music. Integration of digital music resources with analog / acoustic mediums, especially in real-time.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or equivalent.
Description: Historical and stylistic study of the life and music of one or more important composers and/or performers in the European-American or non-Western musical traditions.
Description: Review of music history for graduate students including examples from all major style periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary. Enrollment will be required as determined by the results of the Graduate Diagnostic Survey in Music History.
Description: Review of music theory. Fundamentals, diatonic and/or chromatic harmony, form, and analysis.
Description: Introduction to part writing and voice leading.
Description: Chromatic theory.
Description: Sonata and fugue.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366.
Description: Historical and stylistic study of medieval music and its antecedents.
Prerequisites: MUSC 266.
Description: Counterpoint from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Analysis of excerpts from the literature and composition of representative musical examples.
Description: Study of prolongation and structural counterpoint in tonal music and the hierarchical perspectives that result.
Prerequisites: MUSC 266.
Description: Overview of recent techniques for the analysis of twentieth-century music. Evaluation of the theories of Schönberg, Forte, Babbitt, Perle, Lewin, Morris, and others. Application of musical examples.
Prerequisites: Senior standing or MUSC 366.
Description: Literature of the opera from its prehistory and beginnings to the present.
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing or MUSC 366.
Description: Literature of the symphony orchestra from the Baroque era to the present.
Prerequisites: MUSC 266.
Description: The formal structure and design in music of the common practice period and the present, smaller structural units, motivic processes, binary and ternary forms, vocal forms, theme and variation, sonata, rondo, concerto, suite, ostinato, and contrapuntal forms.
Prerequisites: MUSC 266.
Description: Analysis of music within historical and stylistic contexts with the goal of informing score study and preparation for performers, conductors, and music educators. Analysis of music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and contemporary eras.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Description: Survey of the pedagogy and the solo, chamber and pedagogical literature of instruments from elementary to advanced levels, for class as well as private instruction.
Prerequisites: MUSC 465/865
Description: Exploration of the uses the elements of music (melody, harmony, rhythm, articulation, dynamics, form, etc.) in consonant and dissonant ways to create expressive, emotional and substantive improvisations. Topics include the role of the ear; free playing; intervalic and melodic construction; tone and chord character; and transcription.
Description: Acquaints student with musical repertoire and rehearsal technique of the school jazz ensemble, the various methods of jazz improvisation instruction, the musical roles of the rhythm section, and the materials (books, audio, and video recordings, etc.) that are available to the jazz teacher.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: The processes of teaching singing, basic physiology, and scientific and acoustical terms. Developing processes to teach breathing, phonation, registration, resonance strategies, and sound concept through discussion and evaluation of practice teaching, and on how to manage a private studio.
This course is a prerequisite for: MUSC 971
Prerequisites: Junior standing or above.
Description: Development of the art song, emphasizing the European and New World traditions from the eighteenth century to the present.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: Intensive study of the German, French and American art song literature from the eighteenth century to the present.
Prerequisites: 10 hrs organ or equivalent.
Description: Survey of the most important trends in organ literature and pedagogy from medieval times to the present day. The interrelationships between the music and organ design.
Prerequisites: 10 hrs organ or equivalent.
Topics will rotate.
Description: Seminar in specific focus areas of organ literature.
Description: Seminar in specific focus areas of organ literature.
Description: Seminar in specific focus areas of organ literature.
Description: Seminar in specific focus areas of organ literature.
Description: Seminar in specific focus areas of organ literature.
Prerequisites: 12 hrs undergraduate piano.
Description: Literature for solo piano from the early Baroque through the Twentieth Century, with emphasis on musical styles.
Prerequisites: 12 hrs undergraduate piano.
Specific style periods rotate.
Description: Literature for solo piano.
Description: Literature for solo piano.
Description: Literature for solo piano.
Description: Literature for solo piano.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or equivalent.
Description: Historical and stylistic study of the music composed from the last decade of the nineteenth century through World War II.
Prerequisites: MUSC 266
Description: Examination of important works for orchestra by American composers from the late 1800s to the present day.
Prerequisites: MUSC 266.
Description: Compositional practices of late nineteenth-century European music. Chromatic harmony and devices of tonal and motivic expansion. Analytical concepts of Schenker, Schönberg, and others. Application of music examples.
For DMA and MM option 1A and 1B
Description: Explores the strategies and understanding of scholarly bibliographic and research procedures and standards in music disciplines.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or equivalent.
Description: Historical and stylistic study of the music composed since World War II.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Twentieth century art and vernacular music in the social and historical contexts of its creation, including issues and repertoires that involve multiculturalism and the relationship between popular and art traditions and genres.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or permission.
Description: Forms, styles, composers, and aesthetics of the classic period.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or permission
Description: Forms, styles, composers, and aesthetics of music of the Renaissance.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366.
Description: Forms, styles, composers, and aesthetics of the Baroque Era.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366.
Description: Forms, styles, composers, and aesthetics of the Romantic Era.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or equivalent.
Description: American music and musical life in its cultivated and vernacular traditions including a consideration of its cultural and social background as well as principal stylistic trends and predominant musical attitudes.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission
Description: Explores an understanding of music and its meaning through new ideas and questions generated within the field of ethnomusicology. Through this ethnomusicological lens, examine the ways music reflects culture, daily life, aesthetic, and religious expression.
Description: Covers the practical aspects of a successful music career, including finances, self-presentation, publicity, and marketing for both new and traditional career directions.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Supervised practicum and/or field work in an area related to music under the direction of a university staff/faculty member and a cooperating professional in the particular area(s) of interest.
Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Current materials and approaches for the teaching of music fundamentals, harmony counterpoint, ear training, sight singing, form and analysis. Activities.
Prerequisites: Permission
Oriented to students in music including performance, composition, music education, music theory, and music history.
Description: Current materials and approaches for the teaching of music history in the post-secondary academic environment.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or equivalent
Description: Recent developments in church music seen in the light of twentieth-century theological trends. New directions in church music.
Description: Lyric diction in English, Italian, ecclesiastical Latin, French, and German.
Prerequisites: MUSC 470/870
Description: The science of singing. The physiology, functioning, and acoustics of the singing voice. Research in singing and the various applications of scientific concepts. Research in the art of teaching singing.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Designed for the serious conductor. Analytical and stylistic study of choral literature from the beginning of the respective genre. Major works of the ensemble's history and important contemporary works.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Designed for the serious conductor. Analytical and stylistic study of orchestral literature from the beginning of the respective genre. Major works of four distinct historical periods.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Major works and compositional trends of wind band literature. Insights into historical and cultural influences, composers' biographies, analysis of form and style, and correlation with other media (orchestra, choral, etc.).
Description: Problems of interpretation and execution in music literature with emphasis on examination of literary and musical sources bearing on performance.
Description: History of music theory, in the works of major theorists, or in special problems in music theory.
Description: Interpretative and historical studies in music; intensive study of special topics in the history and literature of music.
Description: Methods and state of research in the disciplines--art, music, literature, language, history, philosophy--dealing with the Middle Ages. Assistance in independent reading and research in subjects related to the student's own research interests. Taught jointly by faculty members in art, music, theatre, English, history, classics, modern languages, and philosophy.
Description: Methods and state of research in the disciplines--art, music, literature, language, history, philosophy--dealing with the Renaissance. Assistance in independent reading and research in subjects related to the student's own research interests. Taught jointly by faculty members in art, music, theatre, English, history, classics, modern languages, and philosophy.
Prerequisites: Permission
obtain adviser¿s permission to repeat for credit
Description: Individual research projects in musicology, music theory, or music education.
Description: Individual research projects in musicology, music theory, or music education.
Description: Individual research projects in musicology, music theory, or music education.
Description: May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair