38 courses with the subject MUSI, 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.
MUSI 105Musical Theater/Opera Production4
Study, rehearsal, and performance of a musical theatre piece. Students will be cast in a role or assigned a production responsibility and will be coached and directed by the staff and faculty. An emphasis will be placed on the development of skills in singing, acting, dancing, and in the design, lighting, and running of a production. The literary, thematic, and historical aspects of the chosen show will be examined as well. (Whether MUSI or THEA, this course may only be taken twice for credit.) Offered every January Term. (Same as THEA 105)
You listen to music every day, but are you hearing it? Do you really know why you like some styles and not others? Did you know that there are many types of music, from America, Europe and around the world, some going back centuries, which you would probably enjoy listening to were you to discover them? This course will make you a more avid, more intent, and more informed listener. This course will introduce you to new forms and styles of music, and it will help you make better sense of the music you hear. You will learn how and why our culture and other cultures make music and how different types of music are organized. Appreciation of any art form comes from a combination of interest and understanding, and developing your interest in music into appreciation through greater understanding is what this course is all about. Taught entirely online.
A course for the beginning student including those without any previous musical experience. Designed to provide basic skills in guitar technique and the development of music fundamentals by exploring a diverse repertory that includes classical (course emphasis), folk, country, and popular styles. Offered Fall and Spring Terms.
Designed to teach the concepts and fundamentals of piano playing for those with limited or no piano experience. Students explore a variety of musical repertoire, learn musical terminology, keyboard navigation and develop finger dexterity. Areas of emphasis include the study of musical notation and symbols, rhythm, note reading, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads as well as work in listening analysis as a means to improve music reading skills. Offered Fall and Spring Terms.
This course is designed for both music and business students alike and will cover tax filing for musicians, performance contracts, and other commercial aspects of music. It is designed as a practical resource for the working musician and anyone with a professional interest in the music industry. Generally offered every year.
An investigation of the basic elements of Western tonal music: major and minor scales, simple and compound rhythms and time signatures, intervals, diatonic triads and seventh chords, principles of harmonic relationships, fundamentals of part-writing and analysis. Students will also be introduced to the use of various music technologies. This will serve: (1) as a means to complement and enhance student learning about music theory, and (2) as an introduction to the extraordinarily wide range of technological applications to composition, improvisation, and music education in general. Prerequisite: The ability to read music. Students must receive a grade of C or higher in order to enroll in the next course of the Music Theory sequence. This is the first of a foundational block of courses designed to provide students a sufficient knowledge base in theory and aural skills. Offered every Fall Term.
Sight singing using moveable and fixed "Do" systems, single-voice dictation, interval work on Mm2, Mm3, P4, P5, P8; distinguishing major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads; introduction to rhythmic exercises in simple and compound meters; chord progressions using major degrees of the scale. This is the continuation of a foundational block of courses designed to provide students a sufficient knowledge base in theory and aural skills. Offered every Fall Term.
This class is a continuation of work completed in Music Theory I. It includes more advanced part writing and analysis, harmonization of melodies, chord inversions, diatonic seventh chords, non-chord tones, phrase structure, small-scale formal structures, and individual and group projects that focus on various analytical, arranging, and compositional activities. Instruction will be integrated with music technologies. This will serve: (1) as a means to complement and enhance student learning about music theory, and (2) as an introduction to the extraordinarily wide range of technological applications to composition, improvisation, and music education in general. This is the continuation of a foundational block of courses designed to provide students a sufficient knowledge base in theory and aural skills. Offered every Spring Term.
Continued progressive work in all areas; incorporating alto clef; increasing complexity in sight singing and melodic dictation; strengthening intervals including Mm6, Mm7; distinguishing triads in inversion; integration of notation of dotted rhythms in compound time and differentiating divisions of 3, 4, 6, 8 to a beat; reading rhythms with a division of 5 or 7 to a beat; the addition of I6, IV6/4, V7, V6, to chord progressions. This is the continuation of a foundational block of courses designed to provide students a sufficient knowledge base in theory and aural skills. Offered every Spring Term.
An opportunity for students to receive additional faculty support for theory and aural skills courses. The course is designed to flexibly fit the needs of each individual student, and may consist of both individual and group meetings with the professor.
A survey of the history, fundamental ingredients, and structure comprising the American musical genre nicknamed "country." The course will discuss the influence on American country music by its ancestral styles--incorporating folk music of Britain and Ireland, 18th century rural American folk and religious / secular music, vaudeville, 1930-1940 swing band, popular vocal and instrumental styles of the 1950s--in its formation into an expressive and recognized entertainment vehicle. In addition, the course will emphasize the contributions of diverse ethnic cultures and societies (American, American, and European) in formation of the music, structure, and emotional dimensions of this genre.
An exploration of the popular musical genre originating in Britain from approximately 1967-1979, conceptualized in the music of the Beatles and culminating in complex, classically based compositions utilizing traditional orchestral instruments and electronic instrumentation associated with popular musical idioms of the period. Other ingredients of the will highlight electronic innovations in instruments and recording techniques, including the use of synthesizers and sound-producing computer-generated synthesized sounds. The influence of youth culture of the mid-20th century, the contributions of the Beat Generation poets and writers, jazz musicians, mirrored in Hippie culture and thought of the 1960s will be explored as well.
Serves as an introduction to the history of radio and its powerful presence as a provider of news, information, and entertainment. Topics include: history of radio broadcasting from its inception in the early part of the 1920s; important individuals involved in radio technology who became the foundation of early broadcasting; the inter-relative facets of radio, its personalities, and effects on entertainment and information with respect to historical happenings and the constantly changing tastes of the listening public; the continued importance of radio in our lives; and radio’s historic role as a mirror of social change and development.
Explores the development of American musical theatre from 1840-present, its musical and theatrical elements and those individuals and influences which constitute its characteristics. Contribution of immigrants, ethnic cultures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the songs, stories, and stage productions created to express new and ever-changing lifestyles will be explored. Offered every other year.
This course discusses the historical influences relating to the creation of the popular musical genre termed "rock and roll" and will center on the social and political conditions in the decades of the 1940s through the 1960s surrounding and contributing to the development of this specific musical style, its usefulness as a social statement, and possible reasons for its negative and / or positive reception. Offered every other year.
An introduction to the principle trends, sounds, and stylistic developments in jazz from ragtime (ca. 1900) to the present. Major performers, arrangers, and innovators are studied throughout the semester with the emphasis on sound rather than theoretical principles. Offered every Spring Term.
This course is offered as an introduction to the fundamentals of computer technology and music as it relates to the needs of the professional musician/educator. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of musical acoustics; the ability to use professional level music notation, music sequencing, and digital audio software; a technical understanding of MIDI, MIDI software and hardware; Web page design; and digital recording and sound editing. The class will progress through a series of exercises and projects that are designed to explore, apply, and expand upon many of the concepts and issues described above. Individual and group instruction will be provided for all exercises and projects.
A continuation of work completed in the first year of Music Theory. The content of the class includes chromaticism, more advanced elements in part writing, form analysis, melodic harmonization, large-scale formal structures, secondary functions, augmented sixths chords, modulation, and projects that focus on expanded analytical, compositional and arranging activities. Instruction will be integrated with music technologies. This will serve: (1) as a means to complement and enhance student learning about hands on music theory, and (2) as an opportunity to express analytical ideas in academic form. This is the continuation of a foundational block of courses designed to provide students a sufficient knowledge base in theory and aural skills. Offered every Fall Term.
Increase in the demands of aural acuity in identifying intervals and triads, in particular, as applied to sight singing, 2-voice dictation and chord progressions that will add I6/4, II6, V, V/V, V7/IV; open score Bach chorales are used to strengthen interval and clef study, including the tenor clef; rhythm exercise covers aural and notation aspects of divisions of 5 and 7 to a beat in simple and compound time. This is the continuation of a foundational block of courses designed to provide students a sufficient knowledge base in theory and aural skills. Offered every Fall Term.
This course primarily concentrates on the music of the 20th century. It begins with an introduction to late 19th century harmonic practices, and then turns its full attention to the rich and broad array of analytical and compositional features found in 20th century music. Analytical and compositional projects, undertaken in individual and small student groups, are structured toward various 20th century music practices. Instruction will be integrated with music technologies. This will serve: (1) as a means to complement and enhance student learning about music theory, and (2) as an introduction to the extraordinarily wide range of technological applications to composition, improvisation, and music education in general. This is the continuation of a foundational block of courses designed to provide students a sufficient knowledge base in theory and aural skills. Offered every Spring Term.
Reinforcement of previous materials with the addition of compound intervals; four-voice triads; chord progressions including IV6 and inversions of V9; playing one voice and singing another voice simultaneously. This is the continuation of a foundational block of courses designed to provide students a sufficient knowledge base in theory and aural skills. Offered every Spring Term.
Study of music outside of the Western art tradition as both cultural and artistic phenomena. Principles of ethnomusicology will be employed within an interdisciplinary framework. Music cultures explored will include those from Africa, North and South America, the Middle East, Indonesia, and the Far East. Music Education majors will develop teaching projects and sample lessons as part of coursework. Offered every Spring Term.
A student-centered music-making class designed to explore learning theories and philosophies related to vernacular music experiences. Students will discover pedagogical techniques and performance practices of contemporary and emerging instruments reflective of the current vernacular music community. Students will explore culture and heritage, differentiated learning processes, communication, motivation, and advocacy as stakeholders, adaptations for students with disabilities, differentiated instruction, self-analysis and reflection of self- and peer-guided musicking opportunities, and will also navigate citizenship in a democracy via a constructivist approach. This course is designed to serve as a means to update knowledge of and skills in emerging trends in vernacular instruments and musicking. Students will learn how to research and discover these emerging musicking spaces. Potential instruments include but are not limited to ukulele, steel pans, and bucket drumming. Prior music experience is preferred but not required. A mandatory 5-hours of guided field experience related to school and community visits will help students develop an understanding of the local community and service opportunities. This course is open to majors and non-majors.
This class will serve as an introduction to five primary pillars of conducting: mental and physical grounding, advanced musicianship, score study, rehearsal technique, and gestural communication. Students will also develop fundamental skills in leadership, conducting philosophy, applications of pedagogical knowledge, error detection, instructional planning and effective teaching, promoting development of positive social interaction skills, and school organization and classroom management. This course will focus on techniques and literature relevant to choral music. Offered every other Spring Term.
This class will serve as an introduction to five primary pillars of conducting: mental and physical grounding, advanced musicianship, score study, rehearsal technique, and gestural communication. Students will also develop fundamental skills in leadership, conducting philosophy, applications of pedagogical knowledge, error detection, instructional planning and effective teaching, promoting development of positive social interaction skills, and school organization and classroom management. This course will focus on techniques and literature relevant to instrumental music.
Covers English, Italian, French, German, and Latin diction and song literature. The International Phonetic Alphabet are covered as is its application to vocal literature. Students wishing to enroll must be able to read music. Offered every other Spring Term.
Medieval-Baroque (3 credits) An examination of the music of the Western classical tradition from ca. 600-1750. In addition to the study of musical styles, genres, and representative composers, students will gain hands-on experience in working with early notation, the area of manuscript stemmatics and filiation, composition projects, the close study of primary sources (both textual and musical), the field of performance practice, and the intersection of race, class, and gender in the musics of each era. Offered every Fall Term.
An examination of the music of the Western classical tradition from ca. 1750-1970. In addition to the study of musical styles, genres, and representative composers, students will gain hands-on experience in working with early notation, composition projects, the close study of primary sources (both textual and musical), the field of performance practice, reception history, and the intersection of race, class, and gender in the musics of these eras. Offered every Spring Term.
This is a course in music composition which will explore common compositional methods used in the Western art music canon and beyond. Students will write compositions in a variety of these styles and analyze music in this and other traditions. The students will perform and discuss each other's compositions on a regular basis. Offered every other Fall.
This course looks at each instrument family in depth, covering ranges and registers, technical considerations, and special techniques for common string, woodwind, brass, percussion, and keyboard instruments. Students create arrangements for each family and larger mixed ensembles, including band and orchestra. Offered every other Spring.
Entails a public recital on the student's primary instrument/voice with accompanying program notes as well a large-scale project. The research project can take on a variety of forms. These might include: issues in performance practice, case studies, analysis, composition, musicology, multimedia, lecture/demonstration, or community-based projects. Students must propose a thesis topic and have it approved by faculty by the end of the preceding fall term, before beginning work. The research project will culminate in some form of documentation of the research undertaken, (written paper, recording, notated score) as well as a public presentation of the project for faculty, students, and campus community.
