SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES The Los Angeles metropolitan area offers many opportunities for remunerative service in music. There are frequent openings for competent organists, church choir directors, soloists, accompanist s and instrumentalists. SCHOLARSHIPS Music awards in varying amounts are available to qualified students. Complete information is avai lable by writing Director, Conservatory of Music, Biola University, 13800 Biol a Avenue, La Mirada, CA 90639- 0001
Muse 114w Music Theory 11 ...•..••......••..••..••..•..•••..•..•• ..•..•....• .. ... .... .. .. .... ... .. . 2 A study of common-practice diatonic harmony with emphasis on voice leading and harmonic progression. Includes part writing, non-ha rmonic tones, cadences, figured bass and Roman analysis.
Keyboard 11 .. ... ..•.• .... .......... •. ...... ...... ..• .. ....•...••.....••...•..••..•..••.. ••• 1 Keyboard technique and literature for the non-keyboard major. Graded on a credit/ no credit basis. Prerequisite: 100 or permission. Fee: $105. Keyboard 111 ...... .. ..... .....•..... ..........•...•. ••...•..••..••..•...••.••..••.•••.••. • 1 Keyboard technique and literature for the non-keyboard major. Graded on a credit/ no credit basis. Prerequisite: 118 or permission. Fee: $ I 05. 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 s1ghtreading from an open score. Required for B.M. Com· position students. Fee $ 105. Applied Music: Private ..................................... ..................... , Applied instruction in composition, piano, organ, harpsichord, voice, brass, strings, woodwinds, percussion, conducting, and improvisation. Fee: half hour lesson $290. Applied Music: Private ............................................ ... .. ... ...... 2 Applied instruction in compos1t1on, piano, organ, harpsichord, voice, brass instruments, string instruments, woodwind instru ments, percussion instruments, conduction, and improvisa tion. Fee: hour lesson $580. Lyric Diction 1•.•••••••••••••••••••.•.•..••. .. ..•.••••••••..• •• •••.••••••••••••••••.•••••• 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 classica l 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 1t accurately. International Phonetic Alphabet, as it applies to the languages studied, and the pronunciation and basic grammar of the Italian language, will be taught.
Muse 11s
Musc119
Courses (MUS() Musc100
Keyboard 1..••...............•...........•...•......•....•...•. .....•...... ... .. •..... .... .. 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.) Fee: $105. Musi c Apprec iati on ...... ...... .................. .. ........... .... ... ........ ...... 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.
Muse 120
Muse 101
Voice Class ................. ..... .. .. .. .. . ......... ......... ............................... 1 Basic vocal training. Fee: $ 75.
Muse 102
Muse 141
Gu itar Class ................. ............. ....... ... ............ ... .... ........ .. .. ... .. .. .. , For the student with no previous training in guitar. Survey of different styles of playing, together with music theo ry as related to the instrument. First position chords, bar chords, right and left hand technique. Fee: $75.
Muse 104
Muse 142
Musc,nA Sight-Sing in g & Dictation 1••• ..• .• ••• ..• .. . .•. . ... . .. .. .. .. ... . ... •• ..•• .... 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. Muse, n w 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.
Muse 1s1
Muse 114 A Sight-Singing & Dictation 11 •...•..••...•..•...•...••.••...•..••..••. .•..•••. 2 Using 113 A materials as a foundation, this course will
Lyr ic Diction 11 ..•...•...•..••..•...•..•...•...•..........•..••..•...•. .••..•.........•... 1 German diction and grammar will be covered in the second semester.
Musc1s2
encompass the sight-singing and transcribing of diatonic and simple chromatic melodies with greater rhythmic complexity, triads 1n all inversions, dominant seventh chords and altered non-harmonic tones.
Undergraduare Programs
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