9 courses with the subject MUS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MUS 102Music Appreciation3
This course focuses on the importance of understanding the elements of music and the appreciation of the artistic value of music. The course covers an overview of major composers and their works and familiarizes students with the essentials of music sound, wave, rhythm, and notation. Students explore classical European music, American music such as: folk, blues, jazz, and rock 'n' roll, a well as world music. Semester Offered: F/S level English
This course introduces the various forms and styles of jazz (ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bebop, and modern) and the musicians and composers of each style, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and George Shearing. Students develop a better understanding of the sources and roots of the various jazz styles and stylists. Semester Offered: F/S/SU
This course examines the basic performance of different genres of music: Jazz, Rock, Funk, Blues, and Latin. Students examine concepts of ensemble playing and responsibilities. Course materials cover basic performance techniques such as: instrument techniques, music reading, scales, chords, ear training, rhythm and teamwork. Students focus on building camaraderie, cohesiveness, listening, rhythm/tempo, musicality, preparedness, and harmonic/melodic elements. Semester Offered: F/S
This course focuses on the performance of: Jazz, Rock, Funk, Blues, Samba/ Bossa Nova, and Afro-Cuban. Students build on the concept of ensemble playing and responsibilities from MUS 135. Students examine intermediate performance techniques such as: instrument techniques, music reading, scales, chords, ear training, rhythm and teamwork. Students focus on building camaraderie, cohesiveness, listening, rhythm/tempo, musicality, preparedness, and harmonic/melodic elements. Semester Offered: F/S
This course focuses on advance s performance of different genres of music: Jazz, Rock, Blues, World Music Samba/Bossa Nova, and Afro- Cuban. Students examine advance performance techniques such as: instrument techniques, music reading, scales, chords, ear training, rhythm and teamwork. Students focus on building camaraderie, cohesiveness, listening, rhythm/tempo, musicality, preparedness, and harmonic/melodic elements. Semester Offered: F/S
This course focuses on the fundamentals of Western music, including writing, understanding and analysis of notation. Students examine rhythm, meters, clefs, keys signatures, major/minor scales, triads and chord inversions. Students study music symbols, intervals seventh chords, tonality, forms, harmonization, and keyboard layout. The laboratory component of this course covers basic piano skills to reinforce the concepts taught in music theory lectures. Semester Offered: F/S level English Please Note: Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory
This course emphasizes diatonic harmony, including seventh chords, figured bass, and cadences. Students study voice leading, outer-voice framework, four-voice part writing, the choral, and dominant and non-dominant seventh chords are introduced. Students examine chromatic harmony, secondary functions, secondary dominants, secondary leading-tones chords, melody harmonization, modulation, binary, and ternary forms. Students focus on listening, analysis, and composition. The laboratory component of this course covers aural/visual development and proficiency skills to reinforce the concepts taught in music theory lectures. Semester Offered: F/S Q U I N SIGAM O N D CO M M U N IT Y CO LLEG E 407
This course covers the foundational historical events of traditional Western European classical music through 1750. Students focus on the music of ancient Greece, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque. Students examine the foundation of historical context, aesthetic awareness, and music vocabulary. Students listen to and analyze different genres, styles and forms of music. Semester Offered: F/S level English
This course covers the foundational historical events of traditional Western European classical music from 1750 to the 20th century. Students examine the Classical Styles, Romantic, 20th century and beyond. Students listen to and analyze different genres, styles and forms of music. Semester Offered: F/S
