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  • 2.00 Credits

    Intermediate level course. 3350 is prerequisite. Same approach as Jazz Improvisation I, with the following additions: Students must transcribe, analyze, and perform jazz solo transcriptions. Pentatonic Scales (major and minor.) Sectional forms and "I Got Rhythm" changes and variations. Diminished Scales, Diminished and Altered Dominant 7th Chords. Whole Tone Scales and Augmented Chords and Scales. Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales. Locrian #2 and Diminished/Whole Tone (Superlocrian) Scales. Lydian Augmented and Lydian Dominant Scales. Prerequisites: "C" or better in MUSC 3350.
  • 2.00 Credits

    This course uncovers technical and musical problems related to conducting. Students discuss study score analysis techniques and will complete lab sessions for direct application of classroom content, gaining knowledge of appropriate conducting gesture. This course focuses on the needs of public school music educators. Prerequisites: 'C' or better in MUSC 2350 AND Emphasis in (Music Education Choral OR Music Education Instrumental)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course covers diverse topics in music theory relevant to the study of 20th-century concert music. Topics may include Modernism, Neo-Classicism, Post-Modernism, chromatic and atonal voice leading, harmonic function based on symmetrical divisions of the octave, music at the limits of tonality, pitch-class set theory (with the emphasis on transpositional equivalence and inversional symmetry), pitch-centricity, and twelve-tone/serial procedures. The course may also cover musical practices prevalent since 1950, including minimalism, aleatoric procedures, and other techniques. Prerequisites: "C" or better in MUSC 2110.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course introduces the common musical forms of 18th- & 19th-century literature. Topics include small musical structures such as sentences and various periods, and larger structures such as binary forms, variations, rondo, ternary forms, and sonata form. The course also introduces methods for representing musical forms, such as formal diagrams and hierarchical outlines. Prerequisites: "C" or better in MUSC 3550.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Individual instruction in composition. Admission by audition. Special fee required. Prerequisites: "C" or better in MUSC 2571.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A selective survey of the music of the indigenous peoples of Africa, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Americas. The course will examine the ways that music functions within these cultures. The students will study the music itself, the people who make it, the instruments they use, and the complex of ideas, behaviors, and processes that are involved in the production of this music. This course is open to all University of Utah students. This lecture course will serve as the School of Music's elective for the Baccalaureate International Requirement.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines Western art music from the development of notation through the mid 18th century in its social, cultural, and political contexts. Students will explore the development of musical forms and genres, notational systems, aesthetics, performance practices, institutions, and audiences during this period. Prerequisites: "C" or better in MUSC 1120.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines Western art music of the mid 18th through the late 19th centuries in its social, cultural, and political contexts. Students will explore the development of musical forms and genres, aesthetics, performance practices, institutions, and audiences during this period. Prerequisites: "C" or better in MUSC 2110.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines Western art and popular musics of the late 19th century through the present in their social, cultural, and political contexts. Students will explore the development of musical forms and genres, aesthetics, performance practices, institutions, and audiences during this period. Prerequisites: "C" or better in MUSC 3645.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A historical analysis of the development of jazz from various pre-jazz influences through contemporary approaches, including the study of individual artists, particularly those whose work has effected important stylistic change. Special emphasis will be placed on the aural analysis of course topics. Prerequisites: Full Major status OR Full Minor status in Music.