Music

MUP100 1 credit

Applied Lessons

Establishes credit for private music lessons.

MUP102 1 credit

Concert Band

Offers applied study and performance of concert band literature. Course may be repeated for up to 6 total credits. Prerequisites: Musical ability with an instrument and music reading skills.

MUP105 1 credit

Jazz Ensemble

Offers applied study and performance of jazz band literature. Course may be repeated for up to 6 total credits. Prerequisites: Musical ability with an instrument and music reading skills.

MUP142 1 credit

Chamber Orchestra

Offers applied study and performance of chamber orchestra literature (Renaissance through Modern) in a small group atmosphere. Course may repeated for up to 6 total credits. Prerequisites: Musical ability with an instrument and music reading skills.

MUP151 3 credits

Music Theater

Gives actors, singers, and dancers credit for participation in musical productions.

MUS101 3 credits

Music Fundamentals I

Focuses on reading and writing basic music notation. Includes note names, scales, key signatures, overtone series, intervals, basic rhythms and meters, spelling triads and seventh chords, and basic ear training skills. Prerequisite: RD30 or designated placement test score as shown on current indicator chart.

MUS105 3 credits

Music Appreciation

Introduces music appreciation from an international and cross-cultural perspective. Explores both commonalities and differences in how music is defined, valued, and used in many cultures around the world. Prerequisites: RD30 or designated placement test score as shown on current indicator chart; WR121 (may be taken concurrently).

MUS111 4 credits

Music Theory and Aural Skills I

Examines the fundamentals of tonal music including the overtone series, major and minor scales, keys, intervals, spelling triads and seventh chords, and harmonic analysis. Includes ear training (dictation) and sight singing skills using diatonic melodies in major keys in simple meter. Introduces solfege as a tool for sight singing. Prerequisites: RD30 or designated placement test score as shown on current indicator chart; WR121 (may be taken concurrently); MUS101 or a basic knowledge of music fundamentals.

MUS112 4 credits

Music Theory and Aural Skills II

Continues the examination of tonal music including harmonic analysis in a key/tonal context, harmonic progression, realizing a figured bass, and part-writing procedures using a figured bass and soprano line. Continues dictation and sight singing skills using diatonic melodies, dyads, and harmonies in major and minor keys using simple and compound meter. Introduces basic keyboard harmony. Prerequisite: MUS111 or permission of the instructor; RD30 or designated placement test score as shown on current indicator chart.

MUS113 4 credits

Music Theory and Aural Skills III

Continues the examination of tonal music including harmonic analysis in a key/tonal con-text with secondary tonal levels or modulation, harmonic progression, and part-writing procedures introducing secondary dominants and modulation, and realizing more advanced figured bass lines. Continues dictation and sight singing skills using diatonic and chromatic melodies, dyads, and harmonies in major and minor keys. Continues with more advanced keyboard harmony. Prerequisite: MUS112 or permission of the instructor; RD30 or designated placement test score as shown on current indicator chart.

MUS137 1 credit

Group Guitar

Covers basic construction of the guitar, principles of tuning, maintenance, and treatment of the instrument. Key signatures, scales, primary chords and their structures, as well as fingering methods, right hand picking styles and techniques specific to the guitar will be covered. Students will also learn how to accompany solo and group singing.  Students may repeat course for up to three terms. Prerequisite: None.

MUS201, 202, 203 3 credits each

Introduction to Music and its Literature I, II, III

Studies styles and historical contexts of music from antiquity to the present. No musical background required. Prerequisites: RD30 or designated placement test score as shown on current indicator chart; WR121 (may be taken concurrently).

MUS205 3 credits

Introduction to Jazz Music and its Literature

Surveys jazz styles from its origins to the present as revealed through the study of the most innovative and influential artists of this uniquely American musical form. Emphasis is placed on building listening and comprehension skills through listening to jazz, in-class discussion of the music, class assignments, research, and reading of the text. Prerequisites: RD30; WR121 (may be concurrent).

MUS206 3 credits

Introduction to Rock Music and its Literature

Surveys rock music from its origins to the present as revealed through the study of the most innovative and influential artists of this American musical form. Emphasis is placed on building listening and comprehension skills through listening to rock, in-class discussion of the music, class assignments, research, and reading of the text. Prerequisites: Prerequisites:RD30; WR121 (may be concurrent).

MUS220 1 credit

Chorus

Offers applied study and performance of choral music. Course may be repeated for up to six (6) credits. Prerequisites: Musical ability and ability to read music.

MUS261, 262, 263 3 credits each

Music History I, II, III

Primarily for music majors, studies development of western musical style from antiquity through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras. Prerequisites: RD30 or designated placement test score as shown on current indicator chart; WR121 (may be taken concurrently). Students must be able to read music.

MUS280 Variable credit

Cooperative Work Experience/Music

Provides work-related study and experience in selected musical environments.