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  • 4.00 Credits

    Introduction to music production using computer technology. Topics include music notation, MIDI control, digital audio editing, and software synthesis as it relates to digital arts technology. Fundamental operation and interfacing of current digital audio computer hardware examined. For both musicians and non-musicians.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Beginning level course. How to Practice and approach beginning creative jazz improvisation. Emphasis hands-on performance and ear training, all participants must perform on their major instrument. Areas of study include ear training exercises, performances of jazz standards appropriate for this level, creation and performance of chord patterns and arpeggios, critical listening, and analysis of jazz standards and solo transcriptions. Prerequisites: Full Major status in Music.
  • 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- and 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 2110
  • 3.00 Credits

    Individual instruction in composition. Admission by audition. Special fee required. Prerequisites: 'C' or better AND at least six credits in MUSC 2570
  • 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.