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Opportuniti es Off– campus The Southern California area provides exceptional opportunities for hearing the world’s leading artists, as well as outstanding col- lege and church music performances. Servi ce Opportuniti es The Los Angeles metropolitan area offers many opportunities for remunerative service in music. There are frequent openings for competent church choir directors, soloists, accompanists, instru- mentalists, and organists. Scholarshi ps Music awards in varying amounts are available to qualified students. Complete information is available by writing: Director, Conservatory of Music, Biola University, 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada, CA 90639-0001. Courses (MUSC) MUSC 100 Keyboard I.................................................................................. 1

MUSC 114 A Sight-Singing & Dictation II.................................................. 2 Using 113 A materials as a foundation, this course will

encompass the sight-singing and transcribing of diatonic and simple chromatic melodies with greater rhythmic complexity, triads in all inversions, dominant seventh chords and altered non-harmonic tones.

MUSC 114W Music Theory II.......................................................................... 2 A study of common-practice diatonic harmony with emphasis on voice leading and harmonic progression. Includes part- writing, non-harmonic tones, cadences, figured bass and Roman analysis. MUSC 118 Keyboard II................................................................................. 1 Keyboard technique and literature for the non-keyboard major. Graded on a credit / no credit basis. Prerequisite: 100 or permission. Fee: $115. MUSC 119 Keyboard III................................................................................ 1 Keyboard technique and literature for the non-keyboard major. Graded on a credit / no credit basis. Prerequisite: 118 or permission. Fee: $115. MUSC 120 Keyboard IV................................................................................ 1 Advanced functional keyboard skills for the composition major. Included will be such skills as the playing of four-voice progressions incorporating secondary dominants, Neapolitan sixth chords, raised supertonic / raised submediant seventh chords, etc. , as well as at-sight simple figured-bass realization and sightreading from an open score. Required for B.M. Com- position students. Fee: $115. MUSC 141 Applied Music: Private........................................................... 1 Applied instruction in composition, piano, organ, harpsichord, voice, brass, strings, woodwinds, percussion, conducting, and improvisation. Fee: half hour lesson $310. MUSC 142 Applied Music: Private........................................................... 2 Applied instruction in composition, piano, organ, harpsichord, voice, brass instruments, string instruments, woodwind instru- ments, percussion instruments, conduction, and improvisa- tion. Fee: hour lesson $620. MUSC 151 Lyric Diction I............................................................................. 1 Lyric diction is taught in four semesters. All courses are 1 unit lab courses meeting two hours per week. These courses are geared for students studying classical vocal technique whose vocal repertoire consists of foreign language as well as Eng- lish, and who, therefore, must learn to accurately pronounce and articulate foreign languages, and to know the meaning of every word in the text in order to convey it accurately. International Phonetic Alphabet, as it applies to the languages studied, and the pronunciation and basic grammar of the Italian language, will be taught.

Designed to develop general keyboard facility. For the music major, as preparation for entrance to MUSC 118. Graded on a credit / no credit basis. (Units earned by the music major may not apply toward music degree requirements.) Fee: $115.

MUSC 101 Music Appreciation................................................................. 3 Elements of music and media of performance in historical perspective. Provides basic background in music literature. For the non-music major. Offered each semester.

MUSC 102 Voice Class.................................................................................. 1 Basic vocal training. Fee: $85.

MUSC 104 Guitar Class................................................................................ 1 For the student with no previous training in guitar. Survey of different styles of playing, together with music theory as related to the instrument. First position chords, bar chords, right and left hand technique. Fee: $85. MUSC 113 A Sight-Singing & Dictation I................................................... 2 Sight-singing diatonic melodies, major and minor scales and triads using moveable tonic solfege. Transcribing basic dia- tonic melodies, cadences and progressions. Reading, perform- ing and transcribing rhythmic patterns in simple, compound and irregular meters. MUSC 113W Music Theory I........................................................................... 2 The study of the following music fundamentals: elementary acoustics, keyboard layout, intervals, scales, key signatures, triads, figured bass, diatonic voice-leading, cadences, elemen- tary harmonic progressions, meter, rhythm, time signatures and staff notation.

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