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Symphony Orchestra

1

Prerequisite:

MUSC 003

Performance of standard chamber music literature encompassing a wide variety of styles and periods. Notes: Membership by audition.

Keyboard I

Units: 1

MUSC 100

or proficiency MUSC 260A Keyboard Sight Reading

Units: 1

Chamber Choir 1 Performance of standard chamber choir literature representing styles ranging from the Renaissance through the 20th century. Notes: Membership by audition.

184

for keyboard minors

MUSC 005

Basic Conducting Concert Music

Units: 2

MUSC 323

Units: 0

MUSC 200

(4 semesters)

Applied Music: Private

Jazz Ensemble

1

Units: 1

MUSC 141

MUSC 007

To provide music education majors and other interested students experience in jazz techniques and literature. A large volume and wide variety of literature is played, discussed and evaluated as to its prospective use at the various levels of secondary and collegiate education. At least one public performance per semester is scheduled. Notes: Membership by audition.

(principal instrument, composition or voice) 4 units through proficiency: level 224** 4 units of ensemble (as appropriate to applied principal)

Music Elective 4-5 units (2 courses). Must choose from among the following with instructor’s approval:

Symphonic Winds

1

MUSC 008

Performance of standard wind ensemble literature. For advanced wind and percussion players. Notes: Membership by audition. Fee $100. 1 Performance of a wide spectrum of handbell literature as separate ensemble and in conjunction with other instrumental and vocal ensembles. Notes: Membership by audition. Handbell Choir Vocal Jazz Ensemble 1 Performance of standard vocal jazz music representing the broad range of jazz styles which have developed over the past century in this country. Notes: Membership by audition.

Music History & Literature: Medieval Through Early Baroque Music History & Literature: Mid-Baroque Through Classic

MUSC 307

Units: 2

MUSC 308

MUSC 009

Units: 2

Music History & Literature: Late Romantic Through Early 20th Century

MUSC 309

Units: 2

Music Theory / History & Literature of the 20th Century Music Cultures of the World

MUSC 312

MUSC 010

Units: 3

Units: 3

MUSC 410

Church Music

Units: 2

MUSC 440

Women’s Chorus

1

MUSC 012

* Entry-level standard required.

Performance of a variety of literature and styles from Renaissance through the 20th Century. Notes: Membership open to all women students by audition. Fee: $40.

Notes:

** Sophomore B.A. music degree proficiency required. See Conservatory Office for standards description.

Keyboard I 1 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.) Notes: Fee: $125. 3 Elements of music and media of performance in historical perspective. Provides basic background in music literature. For the non-music major. Music Appreciation

MUSC 100

A minor in Music in Worship is not available.

The Music Minor requires the course listed below for fine arts G.E.

MUSC 101

Music Appreciation

Units: 3

MUSC 101

Voice Class

1

MUSC 102

Basic vocal training. Notes: Fee: $90.

Courses (MUCS)

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. Notes: Fee: $90. 2 Sight-singing diatonic melodies, major and minor scales and triads using moveable tonic solfege. Transcribing basic diatonic melodies, cadences and progressions. Reading, performing and transcribing rhythmic patterns in simple, compound and irregular meters. 2 The study of the following music fundamentals: elementary acoustics, keyboard layout, intervals, scales, key signatures, triads, figured bass, diatonic voice-leading, cadences, elementary harmonic progressions, meter, rhythm, time signatures and staff notation.

MUSC 104

Biola Chorale 1 Performance of standard choral literature representing a variety of styles and periods. Notes: Membership by audition. Fee: $125. Chamber Music Ensemble 1 Encompasses a wide variety of chamber grouping and chamber music literature. The following ensemble combinations are commonly organized under this heading: brass quintet, woodwind quintet, flute ensemble, string quartet, percussion ensemble, piano chamber ensembles, small vocal ensembles, and worship bands. Open to vocal, keyboard and other instrumental students by audition. Piano accompanying is graded on a credit /no credit basis.

MUSC 001

MUSC 113A Sight-Singing & Dictation I

MUSC 002

MUSC 113W Music Theory I

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