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  • 1.00 Credits

    The course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on application of the skills learned in class piano to jazz and popular music. Assignments will focus on chording, improvisation, lead-sheet reading and writing sight reading and other keyboard skills for popular and jazz music genres. This course gives students the opportunity to continue to improve piano skills acquired during the proficiency process as well as adapting those skills to commercial music applications.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course involves participation in ensemble performances supporting Snow College athletic events. This course is repeatable for credit. Corequisite:    MUSC 2116
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the practical application of composition skills learned in Music Theory I-IV. Emphasis will be placed on the creation of musical arrangements for a wide variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles. Topics of study will include the ranges and colors of instruments and voices and their idiomatic styles. Additional topics will include an emphasis on commercial arranging, alteration, and other forms of musical adaptation and their relation to copyright laws and licensing.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course includes a study of serious wind ensemble literature. Concerts are performed each semester as part of the course. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. An audition is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
  • 2.00 Credits

    This course includes a study of the characteristics of woodwind, brass, percussion, and string instruments and the process of orchestrating for those instruments and their application to contemporary music. Assignments will focus on the practical application of orchestration for popular and jazz music genres.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Jazz Ensemble is a standard jazz big band. The jazz ensemble will perform literature inclusive of all jazz styles. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Addition required. May be repeated for credit.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This ensemble provides students completing the bachelor of music degree with an opportunity to synthesize skills learned in required courses, including music theory, commercial arranging, music technology, private lessons, & music business. The course is required once during the junior year and once during the senior year.
  • 2.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the practical application of composition skills learned in Theory I-V to the area of commercial music. Additional topics will include the writing of music for TV/film and other visual media. Activities will include writing charts for class members and the performances of these works in class.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course will provide group training in a variety of choral music literature. Those registering are expected to participate in major activities of the department. This course is open only to music majors pursuing the B. Mus. degree or by permission of instructor. Audition required. May be repeated for credit.