6 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.
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Historical approach to the jazz idiom through readings and guided listening. Topics include: the roots of jazz music, New Orleans jazz, Chicago style, Kansas City style, swing, bebop, new wave, and progressive jazz. Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: Communications and Performing Arts
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Introduction to the varied sounds of 20th century music. Emphasis on major musical achievements of the century by European and American composers, including Stravinsky, Bartok, Schonberg, Gershwin, Bernstein, Copland and Cage. Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: Communications and Performing Arts
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Development of Opera, its sociological and political aspects, and its rich and varied literature in the Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern Eras. Renowned operatic masterworks included. Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: Communications and Performing Arts
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. A listening survey of various folk and ethnic music forms performed and practiced worldwide by various social groups. Songs and dances associated with love, war, and rites of passage, evocative forms, drumming, chanting, instruments and languages as related to the musical forms, social, geographic, historical elements and their musical relevance. Flexible Core: World Cultures and Global Issues (Group A) Department: Communications and Performing Arts
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. A first course in music theory for students with no previous musical training, but an interest in acquiring basic skills in music reading, writing, and performance. Topics include: note reading and writing in treble and bass clef, major and minor scales, intervals and chords. F Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: Communications and Performing Arts 516
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Through this survey course in Western Music History, students will explore the evolution and history of music, ranging from the Medieval Period to the twenty-first century, through the study and analysis of musical works written by European and American composers. Students will listen to and analyze various art music genres including instrumental solo music, chamber and orchestral music, as well as vocal genres in order to examine the evolution of form, compositional techniques, and instruments that have occurred throughout the past one thousand years in Western Music. Further, students will engage in the critical listening of a variety of musical works from these time periods in order to assess elements such as texture, timbre and melody structure. Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: Communications and Performing Arts
Source: CUNY Kingsborough Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
