Music (MUSC)
Description: Introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet incrementally using song literature of many languages including English, Latin, Spanish, Italian, German, French, and others. Symbols and their physical production in multiple contexts, with discussion on the mechanics of the articulators (lips, tongue, teeth, etc.) and how core sounds associated with each IPA symbol may subtly change from language to language. Active practice with these sounds through both speaking and singing.
Description: The correct pronunciation and diction for singing in Italian and English. Some of the art songs that comprise the standard Italian and English vocal literature.
Description: The correct pronunciation and diction for singing in German. Some of the art songs that comprise the standard German vocal literature.
Description: Introduction for music majors to the development of functional piano technique for application to music theory, music reading, harmonization, improvisation, and other practical skills. Normally taken with MUSC 160, MUSC 165, MUSC 165A as the beginning of the music core curriculum
This course is a prerequisite for: MUSC 132
Description: Introduction to the degree programs in music and resources for the study of music at the university level. Historical, social, and stylistic views of music in western and non-western cultures. Significance of music in cultural history, and the understanding of music as aesthetic expression. How to listen to and appreciate the human and cultural values of music. This class is intended for music majors. Normally taken with MUSC 131, MUSC 165, MUSC 165A as the beginning of the music core curriculum.
Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or permission as informed by diagnostic testing
Description: Intensive drill in skills (ear training, sight singing, and keyboard) to accompany written concepts.
Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program
Normally taken with MUSC 131, MUSC 160, and either MUSC 164H or MUSC 165A as the beginning of the music core curriculum. Letter grade only.
Description: Beginning fundamentals of music. Beginning theory (notation, rhythm and meter, pitch, harmony) and its application to listening, performing, and thinking about music.
Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation.
University Honors Seminar 189H is required of all students in the University Honors Program.
Description: Topic varies.
Description: Introduction to modern and historical keyboard instruments and initial development of skills on each. Emphasis on varied styles of keyboard performance including solo and collaborative, historical, modern, and vernacular. Overview of professional musicianship on keyboard instruments.
Prerequisites: MUSC 265 with a grade of C or better
Description: Continued study of chromatic harmony (later nineteenth-century practice) and of form and analysis (Lied, theme and variation). Twentieth-century materials and techniques (new tonal resources, atonality).
This course is a prerequisite for: MUSC 365
Description: Introduction to basic ethnomusicological terms and techniques, including the distinction between folk, pop, and art music. The first half of class on traditional folk music of Europe, Africa, and America. The second portion on the art musics of the Near East, India, Indonesia, and China-Japan.
Description: Fundamentals of music composition with attention to creating original music in digital mediums including MIDI and digital audio. Theory and practice in improvisation as related to composition as well as techniques for reworking musical ideas towards creating a finished composition.
This course is a prerequisite for: EMAR 363
Description: Introduction to the basic theory, practice, and procedures involved in recording and producing music in the modern digital audio production suite. Principles of sound, acoustics, and the fundamentals of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software and hardware (microphones and mixing consoles).
Description: Fundamental skills in personal and professional use of technology for music production with a focus on MIDI sequencing and music notation software. Foundation of MIDI technology including keyboard and instrument programming, internet applications with sound and MIDI in multimedia.
Description: Survey of the history of rock music including its antecedents in Rhythm & Blues and Country. Two areas: a musical focus on musical characteristics and evolving musical styles, and a consideration of the sociopolitical impact rock music has had on late 20th Century life.
Description: Investigation of selected topics in digital arts.
Description: Exploration of the craft and art of scoring for visual media though practice, analysis and discussion. Develop creative and technical skills in audio editing and music composition for synchronization to picture.
Prerequisites: MUSC 283 or permission
Description: Advanced work in audio recording and production with an emphasis on creating dynamic audio mixes for different musical contexts. Extensive work with DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software and audio hardware such as microphones and mixing consoles, as well as foundational experience in using editing/mastering software.
Description: Investigation of topics in music, and the selection of one topic, for the purpose of preparing a proposal for a research document or undergraduate thesis.
Description: Investigation of topics in music, and the selection of one topic, for the purpose of preparing a proposal for a research document or undergraduate thesis.
Description: Investigation of topics in music, and the selection of one topic, for the purpose of preparing a proposal for a research document or undergraduate thesis.
Description: Investigation of topics in music, and the selection of one topic, for the purpose of preparing a proposal for a research document or undergraduate thesis.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Investigation of selected topics in music.
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 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.
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.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and MUSC 366.
Description: Relationship between musical analysis and musical performance. Individual performance project of a suitable composition and a research paper devoted to the work and its performance.
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.
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.
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.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or equivalent.
Description: Historical and stylistic study of the music composed since World War II.
Description: Culminating experience in music technology. Proposal and production of project blending music and technology.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or equivalent.
Description: Forms, styles, composers, and aesthetics of the classic period.
Prerequisites: MUSC 366 or equivalent.
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.
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: Permission.
Prerequisites: Open to candidates for degrees with distinction, with high distinction, and with highest distinction in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.