• MUSC 4350: Advanced Conducting

  2.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course continues with concepts introduced in Beginning Conducting. Students will learn more about scores, including transposition of instruments, ranges and tonal colors of voices and instruments, and advanced baton and hand-conducting techniques. Assignments will include the conducting of Snow College ensembles. Students will learn to function as ensemble leaders and will also demonstrate and defend their musical decision-making, both individually and collaboration with other students. Students will have the opportunity to synthesize the theoretical, analytical, historical and cultural components of their coursework in the process of functioning as a leader in the music making process.
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• MUSC 4363: Film Scoring

  2.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course focuses on the techniques used in contemporary film scoring, including creation of realistic, electronically produced mockups of orchestral compositions. Students will make an in-depth study of sample-based virtual instruments and their manipulation through Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). Emphasis will be placed on achieving realism by controlling various MIDI parameters. They will also study the methods used to apply their orchestra mock-ups to film scoring.
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• MUSC 4400: Survey Contemporary MuscStyles

  3.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course provides an opportunity for students to learn about and perform contemporary repertoire with feedback from the instructor and students. The course provides a forum for covering elements of improvisation, sight reading, stylistic interpretation, stage presence, repertory technique and pedagogy. The course also provides students with an understanding of current musical practices in the contest of the historical practices from which they evolved. Corequisite:    MUSC 4147
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• MUSC 4405: World Music Studies

  3.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course provides students with a rigorous introduction to selected musical traditions from various parts of the globe. Through the use of a comparative analytical framework, which includes perspectives from ethnomusicology, the cognitive sciences, and psychoacoustics, students will learn to critically analyze and appreciate the selected musical traditions. These traditions will be approached from within their own cultural contexts and viewed as a social process. Students will develop an understanding of what music is, what it means to its practitioners and audiences, and the means by which musical meaning is transmitted. Emphasis is placed on recognition and analysis of the salient musical characteristics of each tradition, the artists who made major contributions to those traditions, and the particular musical instruments that are iconic to each.
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• MUSC 4406: Jazz Chamber Music IV

  1.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  Chamber ensemble groups for jazz musicians. 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 knowlege into meaningful artistic expression. Registration by permission of instructor. Audition required. May be repeated for credit.
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• MUSC 4440: Audio Recording Theory

  3.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course focuses on the study of the fundamentals of sound and how it can be captured, manipulated, and reproduced. It includes the study of the history of recording and studio equipment, digital recording and other audio processing tools, as well as techniques for mixing and mastering. This course also begins the development of technical aural perception skills needed when making decisions pertaining to recorded or live music or audio. Corequisite:    MUSC 3350
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• MUSC 4450: Audio Production I

  2.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course focuses on the study of advanced techniques involved in audio production that build on the concepts covered in Audio Fundamentals I and II. It is the first of two course that comprise the Production Track core. Audio Production I focuses on the recording (tracking or capturing) process, which includes the study of various tracking and microphone techniques involved in recording all types of instruments, ensembles, and situations.
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• MUSC 4556: Private Guitar IV

  1.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course provides students with individual guitar instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. The course promotes synthesis various types of musical knowledge. A jury is required at the end of the semester. The jury accounts for 20% of the grade for the course. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 3000 level private instruction in order to register for 4000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required.
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• MUSC 4566: Private Organ IV

  1.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course provides students with individual organ instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedigogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. The jury accounts for 20% of the grade for the course. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 3000 level private instruction in order to register for 4000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required.
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• MUSC 4596: Private Piano IV

  1.00 Credits

  Snow College

  
  This course provides students with individual piano instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedigogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. The jury accounts for 20% of the grade for the course. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 3000 level private instruction in order to register for 4000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required.
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