2023-2024 Undergraduate General Catalog


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MUSI 210 Music History and Literature to 1750 (WT)

A general survey of the great movements in the development of music as an art form from the ancient times through the Baroque period. Emphasis is placed on score reading and analysis. The ability to read music notation is assumed for a student taking this class.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

MUSI 121

MUSI 212 Music History and Literature: 1750 to Present

A general survey of the development of music during Viennese Classical and nineteenth century Romantic periods to the present. Emphasis is placed on score reading and analysis. The ability to read music notation is assumed for a student taking this class.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

MUSI 121

MUSI 214 Music History and Literature of the Non-Western World (PW)(W)

Explores the music history and literature of nine major cultural areas: India, the Middle East, China, Japan, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin Ame4rica, ethnic North American, and Native American music. The compositional makeup, theoretical practices, genre specific style characteristics, function and sound quality of musical instruments will be explored. Each musical system will be examined in a selective manner as to how it functions in the lives of the culture, how it is viewed and what the definition of music is for that culture.

Credits

3

MUSI 220 Music Theory III: Chromaticism and Formal Practices

Chromaticism is approached through the study of secondary function harmonies, including secondary dominants and secondary leading-tone chords and how they function in modulations to closely related keys. Basic formal practices are covered including binary, ternary and variation forms. Larger formal units such as sonata and rondo forms are also introduced. Emphasis is placed on writing modulations to closely related keys through the use of secondary function chords in a formal context.

Credits

2

Prerequisites

MUSI 121

Corequisites

MUSI 220L

MUSI 220L Aural Skills III

This course develops aural and rhythmic skills toward a goal of comprehensive musicianship training. Aural identification of musical concepts and realization of concepts through sight-singing are stressed through group activities, software programs, dictation exercises and class lectures. Must be taken concurrently with MUSI 220.

Credits

1

Corequisites

MUSI 220

MUSI 221 Music Theory IV: Extended Chromaticism and Contrapuntal Genres

This course begins with contrapuntal genres including the chorale prelude, the two-voice invention and fugal processes. Expanded chromatic harmonies such as Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords are followed by modulation to distantly related keys. Increased chromaticism and tonal ambiguity are explored by expanded tertian structures, enharmonic usages of chromatic harmonies, and chromatic third relationships.

Credits

2

Prerequisites

MUSI 220

Corequisites

MUSI 221L

MUSI 221L Aural Skills IV

This course develops aural and rhythmic skills toward a goal of comprehensive musicianship training. Aural identification of musical concepts and realization of concepts through sight-singing are stressed through group activities, software programs, dictation exercises and class lectures. Must be taken concurrently with MUSI 221.

Credits

1

Corequisites

MUSI 221

MUSI 236 Singer's Diction

This course is designed to increase the signer's awareness of the structure and characteristics of diction in English and foreign language song texts. The International Phonetic Alphabet will be used extensively. The student will develop the ability to transliterate Italian, German, French, and English song texts into IPA symbols. He/she will also learn to read IPA transliterations of those languages with stylistic accuracy. The anatomy of consonant and vowel formation in the various languages will be studied. Recommended Freshman or Sophomore year.

Credits

2

MUSI 250 Brass Pedagogy and Performance

General instructional content, performance practices, and discovering problems relating to all brass instruments are explained. History, fingerings, acoustics, mouthpieces, mutes, transpositions, literature, pedagogical resources, listening, and instructional techniques are among the materials covered in this course.

Credits

2

MUSI 251 String Pedagogy and Performance

Elementary class instruction in violin, viola, violoncello, and contrabass. This class is designed to introduce undergraduate music education students to the elementary playing techniques of orchestral stringed instruments through demonstration and explanation of such fundamentals as correct position, correct holding, tuning, LI and RH techniques, intonation, tone production, and various bowing articulations.

Credits

2

Corequisites

MUSI 253

MUSI 252 Woodwind Pedagogy and Performance

A pedagogical study of clarinet, saxophone, flute, oboe and bassoon designed for the student who is preparing to be an instrumental teacher. Students who successfully complete the requirements of this course will be able to provide instruction on woodwind instruments and have basic performing skills necessary for demonstration purposes in teaching.

Credits

2

MUSI 253 Percussion Pedagogy and Performance

This course prepares future music educators for the task of teaching percussionists. Emphasis is on identifying basic techniques for the development of good percussionists and appropriate literature to achieve this goal. Students will experience percussion instruments first-hand through performance.

Credits

2

Corequisites

MUSI 251