Students will take a half hour private lesson per week and also meet in a small group once a week for 60 minutes. This section of applied voice will incorporate components of both voice class and private lessons. MU 207 – Applied Lessons: Beginning Collegiate Voice 1 hr. Aural identification, sight-singing, and melodic and harmonic dictation skills continued from MU 153. Content includes use of Roman numerals in major and minor modes, the four-part chorale and voice ranges, root movements, instrumental style, chord inversions, and cadences.
Course content and aural and sight-singing skills are directly related to 17 th– and 18 th-century functional analysis. This course is an introduction to 17 th– and 18 th-century functional harmony.
MU 164 – Eighteenth-Century Functional Harmony 3 hrs. Prerequisite: MU 157 or permission of the instructor.
This course is a continuation of MU 157 that meets two hours each week for Music majors only. MU 158 – Class Piano (Beginning Keyboard Skills for Majors) 1 hr. For Music majors only, it meets two hours each week. The fundamental skills at the beginning level (MU 157 and MU 158) include: major/minor scales interval and chordal identification simple pieces sight-reading and melodic transposition. This continuous course places basic emphasis on the achievement of those keyboard skills required of all Music majors in order to pass their keyboard proficiency examination. MU 157 – Class Piano (Beginning Keyboard Skills for Majors) 1 hr. The student develops skills in aural identification of meter/time signatures, diatonic scales, diatonic melodic and harmonic intervals, and triads diatonic melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation and sight-singing of melodic passages and arpeggiated diatonic triads. This course is required of all music majors and is a prerequisite for all subsequent music theory courses. MU 153 – Sight-Singing, Dictation, and Aural Skills 1 hr. If minimum competencies are demonstrated in each content area, the instructor may elect to excuse the student from the course as a required prerequisite of subsequent music theory courses. All entering students in the music theory course sequence are required to take a comprehensive music fundamentals test during the first regularly scheduled class. Students enrolled in the course are required to attend regularly scheduled sessions twice a week and may be assigned an additional remedial class session once per week if needed. This course is designed as an introduction to written music theory and is the fundamental course for all subsequent study in functional harmony and related music theory courses. MU 151 – Music Theory Fundamentals 2 hrs. Students will learn to read music in standard notation, perform solo and ensemble literature, and acquire basic music theory concepts. No prior knowledge of reading music or keyboard experience is necessary. The class is designed for the beginning pianist with no previous formal piano instruction. This piano class for non-majors emphasizes achievement of beginning-level performance competencies on piano. This class, or one year of previous study, is a prerequisite for Applied Lessons: Guitar. Instruction will be provided in tuning, basic chords, reading music in standard notation, using tablature, learning notes in first position, picking, and strumming. Class guitar is designed for the beginning guitarist with no previous formal guitar instruction. The general objective of this course is to provide the student with a foundation in guitar technique upon which to base further study of the instrument. It provides information of an analytical, stylistic, and historical nature, and is designed to lead the student to a critical understanding of the composer and the musical product.
This course is designed as an introduction to music, presupposing no prior technical knowledge on the part of the student. Through an understanding of its roots, development, formal structure, and design, jazz becomes accessible to students and forms a basis for appreciating its sophistication, subtleties, and various modes of expression. This course is an intensive examination of the social forces, political conditions, personalities, and creative geniuses that combined to form the music that many have called America’s only indigenous art form. Jelly Roll, Kid, Sidney, Duke, Count, Satchmo, Fatha, Miles, and Bird: magical names that evoke the exciting world of jazz: one of America’s greatest gifts to the world.