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3. Students with emphasis in music education must complete the music education workshops as well as appropriate level music education courses. The total music units required in the Bachelor of Music program is as follows: Applied Music 76 Composition · 76 Music Education 67 Bachelor of Arts candidates must complete 55 units in music including 101 (fulfills general education requirements for fine arts) , 103, 104, 201, 202, 203, 204, 301 , 302, 305, 306, 313, 401, 402 ; applied music, 8 units ; ensemble 6 units. Special note: Non-music majors are limited to maximum of eight units of credit as electives in applied music (including ensembles). MUSIC COURSES 50 A, B,-INTRODUCTION TO THE KEYBOARD (1) Designed for the non-music major. Notation reading, technique, rhythm, interpretation, sight-reading designed to develop general keyboard facility. 60 A, B,-VOICE CLASS (1) For the student with no previous voice training who desires to study applied music. 70 A, B,-ORGAN CLASS (1) For the student with no previous organ training Basic keyboard and pedal technique. Pipe organ construction and repertoire .

Prerequisite: ability to play hymns on piano. 80 A, B,-CLASS INSTRUCTION (1) Class instruction in various instruments other than voice, piano, or organ - such as guitar and recorder. 90 APPLIED MUSIC (1-2)

Applied instruction for non-music majors and for music majors, secondary instrument. Instruction in piano, organ , harpsichord, voice, brass instruments, string instruments, woodwind instruments, percussion instruments, conducting, composition, and hymn playing. 100 APPLIED MUSIC-PRIVATE (1-2) Private instruction offered to music majors in the following: Piano, organ, harpsichord, voice, brass instruments, string instruments, woodwind instruments, percussion instruments, conducting, composition. 101 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC (3) Elements of music and media of performance in historical perspective. Provides basic background in music literature. Sections for those with musical acquaintance and those without. Offered each semester. 103 MUSIC THEORY-AURAL EMPHASIS (2) Designed for entering music students with sufficient background in music theory. Emphasis on recognition , dictation and singing of major/minor scales, intervals and triads with collateral exercises in notation and timbre discrimination. Performance exercises in simple/ compound meters and standard rhythmic concepts. Three hours each week. 104 MUSIC THEORY - AURAL EMPHASIS (2) Continuation of Music 103, but with more emphasis on sight-singing. Introduction to changing meters, additive rhythms, cross rhythms, and improvisation . Minimal terminal performance : ability to identify, dictate and sing all major and minor scales, all simple intervals in isolation within the compass of an octave, all triads, and perform exercises in simple and compound meters. Three hours each week. Prerequisite: 103. 141 , 142 DICTION I AND II (1 , 1) Principles of pronunciation and enunciation of English, Italian , ecclesiastical Latin, French , German and Spanish texts ; use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. 150 A,B, PIANO PROFICIENCY (1) Literature, technique, scales harmonization, sight reading and transposition. Designed to prepare the student for the piano proficiency examination. Class instruction. 200 APPLIED MUSIC-PRIVATE (1-2) Private instruction offered to music majors in the following: Piano, organ, harpsichord, voice, brass instruments, string instruments, woodwind instruments, percussion instruments, conducting, and composition. Prerequisite: 100. 201 MUSIC THEORY-WRITTEN EMPHASIS (2) Diatonic harmony, melodic construction non-chord tones, harmonization of melodies, four-part writing. Introduction to Schenkerian analysis, harmonization of melodies, creative project. Prerequisite: 104 202 MUSIC THEORY-WRITTEN EMPHASIS (2) Seventh and ninth chords, modulation, secondary dominant chords. Prerequisite: 201. 203 MUSIC THEORY-AURAL EMPHASIS (1) Singing, at sight, of advanced melodic materials such as classical, folk , and hymn tunes, canons; dictation of 2 and 3 part contrapuntal passages. 204 MUSIC THEORY-AURAL EMPHASIS (1) Singing, at sight, of advanced melodic materials of greater difficulty; dictation of 2 , 3 , and 4 part contrapuntal passages; dictation of vertical harmonic passages such as chorales and hymn tunes.

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