116 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 100Basic Musicianship3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the rudiments of music, including basic rhythmic and pitch notation; major and minor scales; intervals; primary triads; rhythmic drills; and sight singing and ear training activities. Also includes keyboard and computer applications of concepts studied. Must complete and/or test out to be admitted as a music major.
Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 A laboratory-style course designed for the non-music major giving the student a basic understanding of music reading, keyboard harmony, and technique.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A class piano course giving the non-piano major a basic understanding of keyboard harmony and technique, with the first year of instruction devoted to practicing the five-finger major hand positions, 893
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A course focusing on selections from all periods and styles of music, including pop, spiritual, and gospel music, with a study of vocal techniques, choral diction, and performance styles and practice. Includes choral performances at various University and community activities, with tours planned to many areas in North Carolina and other states. Open to all students who enjoy singing.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 This course gives students the opportunity to engage more actively in the music-making process through participation in a chamber ensemble, which is defined as a small group of musicians (normally two to eight people) performing music without a director/ conductor.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 This course offers the student percussionist practical experience in the playing of percussion instruments in a chamber music setting. This course will explore traditional, contemporary, and world music for percussion ensemble. Open to all students following audition and permission of the instructor.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will enable students to develop facility with a range of music technology hardware; and software, and learn procedures for operating those elements. This course will feature uses of technology in K-12 music education settings. Various methods and software applications available for use in public schools as well as their relative merits will be investigated. Additionally, this course provides a foundation for students to develop their creative capacities. Course topics will include student-based performance (sequences, warm-ups, accompaniment, transposition, scoring), composition (sequencing, arranging, scoring), administrative functions (grading, communications, research, databases, financial management), logistics (lab set-up, funding), and resources. Students should have previous experience with Windows or 894
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A course in the performance of small ensemble compositions written for various combinations of brass and wind instruments. Open to all students following audition and permission of instructor.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 2 A course in the performance of small ensemble compositions written for trumpet choir. Open to trumpet students following audition and permission of instructor.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A course in the performance of small ensemble compositions written for various combinations of woodwind instruments. Open to all students following audition and permission of instructor.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A major performing organization of the university, with practice including instruction in improvisation and arranging, and with a varied repertoire that includes music from jazz to fusion and popular styles. Open to all students following audition and permission of instructor.
MUSI 152Harmony, Sight Singing, and Ear Training I3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1 A study of the basic elements of harmony: primary and secondary triads in root position and all inversions; seventh chords; major, minor, and chromatic scales; introduction to part-writing procedures; rhythmic drills; and sight singing and ear training activities. Includes keyboard and computer applications of concepts studied.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An introduction to teaching music in the public schools required of all music education majors. Students are introduced to the K-12 National Music Standards, NC Standard Course of Study, and North Carolina licensing procedures. Through reading, writing, field experiences, and discussions, students consider the implications of a particular philosophy of music education, various styles of teaching/learning, and music knowledge and skills, as well as dispositions necessary to become an excellent music teacher. Issues related to music assessment, classroom management, and different types of school settings are considered.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A user-friendly course of study in the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic practices associated with the art of jazz improvisation, including the theoretical background associated with it and the stylistic and idiomatic considerations as well. Students learn through a "hands-on" approach; they are called upon to improvise jazz in actual playing situations on a weekly basis. Students also learn through the study of jazz harmony and theory and through analysis of classic jazz recordings made famous by the masters of the craft.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A course in the performance of small ensemble compositions written for various combinations of string instruments. Open to all students following audition and permission of instructor. 896
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A series of weekly workshops, clinics, master classes, presentations, and performances presented to students taking applied lessons and senior recital. Students gain practical performance experience during the scheduled music seminar/ recital hours. Students are required to attend additional student ensemble, senior recital, and Fine Arts Series events. Concurrent registration in applied lessons or senior recital is required with MUSI 165 registration. Course taken for Pass/ Fail credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses focusing on diagnoses and recommendations for proper brass/wind playing habits, with emphasis on embouchure development, tonal studies, scales, and arpeggios. Minimum of five hours practice per week required. Freshman year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequenced study of organ manual and pedal techniques, with practice works including easy preludes and offertories, studies by Gelason, Nilsen, etc.; Bach's Little Preludes and Fugues; and hymn playing and service playing. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. Freshman year sequence.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A first-year sequence of courses in piano devoted to acquiring a firm technical foundation through the use of various drills and exercises, with beginning repertoire including pieces on the level of the Clementi Sonatinas, Op. 36, the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, and Bach's Two-part Inventions. Includes practice with major and minor scales played in contrary and parallel motion. Freshman year sequence.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses for the percussionist focusing on basic technique, sound production, exercises and etudes with emphasis on indefinite pitch and related instruments, keyboard percussion, and timpani. Freshman year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses featuring diagnoses and recommendations for proper string playing habits, with practice emphasis on bowing and fingering methods, positions, scales, arpeggios, tone, and vibrato. Freshman year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses in voice focusing on the study of vowels and the fundamentals of tone production, correct breathing and posture, and the performance of early secular and sacred songs. Freshman year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
MUSI 178(1-1-0) Applied Brass: A sequence of courses focusing on diagnoses and recommendations for
proper brass/wind playing habits, with emphasis on embouchure development, tonal studies, scales, and arpeggios. Minimum of five hours practice per week required. Freshman year sequence.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses focusing on diagnoses and recommendations for proper woodwind playing habits, with emphasis on embouchure development, tonal studies, scales, and arpeggios. Freshman year sequence.
MUSI 180(1-1-0) Applied Organs: A sequenced study of organ manual and pedal techniques, with practice
works including easy preludes and offertories, studies by Gelason, Nilsen, etc.; Bach Little Preludes and Fugues; hymn playing and service playing. Freshman year sequence.
MUSI 182(1-1-0) Applied Piano: A first-year sequence of courses in piano devoted to acquiring a firm
technical foundation through the use of various drills and exercises, with beginning repertoire including pieces on the level of Clementi Sonatinas, Op. 36; the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach; or the easier Bach Two-part Inventions; and major and minor scales in contrary and parallel motion. Freshman year sequence.
MUSI 184(1-1-0) Applied Percussion: A sequence of courses for the percussionist focusing on basic
technique, sound production, exercises and etudes with emphasis on indefinite pitch and related instruments, keyboard percussion, and timpani. Freshman year sequence.
MUSI 186(1-1-0) Applied Strings: A sequence of courses featuring diagnoses and recommendations for
proper string playing habits, with practice emphasis on bowing and fingering methods, positions, scales, arpeggios, tone, and vibrato. Freshman year sequence.
MUSI 188(1-1-0) Applied Voice: A sequence of courses in voice focusing on the study of vowels and the
fundamentals of tone production, on correct breathing and posture, and on the singing of vocalists and early secular and sacred songs. Freshman year sequence.
MUSI 190(1-1-0) Applied Woodwinds: A sequence of courses focusing on diagnoses and
recommendations for proper woodwind playing habits, with emphasis on embouchure development, tonal studies, scales, and arpeggios. Freshman year sequence.
Core Academic Skills for Educators Test Requirement Required for students with less than 2.5 Undergraduate GPA Core Academic Skills for Educators: Reading (5712)—Score 156 Core Academic Skills for Educators: Writing (5722)—Score 162 Core Academic Skills for Educators: Mathematics (5732)—150
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 2 The FSU Pep Band is an important performing organization of the university, playing recruitment concerts at high schools, official university functions, as well as home and selected away basketball games. This 1- credit course is open to all students following audition and instructor permission. Preference is given to those who have performed with the FSU marching band in the fall semester. This course can be repeated for credit. This course cannot be used for an ensemble credit requirement by music majors/ minors.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A study of primary chords in all keys, the major and minor harmonic scales and major and minor arpeggios in two octaves; four-part chordal textures; and sight reading using chord symbols. 899
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course develops student proficiency in MIDI sequencing and in the use and integration of music notation, digital audio, and digital video software. Students will design multimedia projects, study electronic recording equipment, and construct music projects and interactive lessons appropriate for k-12 music instruction. Students will integrate digital multimedia files into presentations, music lessons, and class projects. This course will center on intermediate level competence in music technology. The recording studio, music instruction, and music notation are the global objectives for this course.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 This course introduces the foundations of teaching for music through various topics and experiences. Topics include: music teaching as a profession, North Carolina Music Standards, and music content and pedagogical knowledge. Advanced topics include: lesson plan design and an introduction to edTPA.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A practical introduction to the woodwind family, with emphasis on techniques for playing the flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone, as well as on the characteristics and functions of each woodwind instrument and on the basic skills needed to offer instruction on woodwind instruments in the public schools.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A continuation of techniques started in MUSI 251, including new material such as basic diction, consonant and vowel production, and the extension of vocal and dynamic range through exercises and repertoire. Course intended for music education majors with voice concentration only.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A study of the enunciation, pronunciation, and articulation of languages applicable to performances of vocal literature written in English, French, Italian, German, and Latin.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses for the brass player focusing on the continuing development of playing habits, with an emphasis on embouchure development, technique development and solo literature. Sophomore year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses in organ technique and repertoire, including the Bach's Little Preludes and Fugues and Orgelbuchlein; Brahms's Choral Preludes; works by Vierne and Widor; hymns; and other standard works. Sophomore year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses in piano technique and repertoire on the level of Beethoven's Sonatas Op. 49, Nos. 1, 2; Bach's Two and Three-part Inventions; Chopin's Mazurkas, and Waltzes; and Bartok's Mikrokosmos, Volumes III and IV. Included practice with major and minor scales played in contrary and parallel motion. Sophomore year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses in technical studies and the development of a recital repertoire for strings. Performance in student recitals and a minimum of ten hours practice per week required. Sophomore year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A continuation of studies in tone production and other principles of singing, with emphasis on various vocalists and on English, Italian, and French songs. Sophomore year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses in technical studies and the development of a recital repertoire for woodwinds. Performance in student recitals and a minimum ten hours practice per week required. Sophomore year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit. 903
MUSI 281Harmony, Sight Singing, and Ear Training II3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1 Further study of harmonic elements with emphasis on analysis of primary and secondary triads, seventh chords, and cadences in the content of compositions representing the major historical style periods. Introduction to small forms, nonharmonic tones and melody harmonization. Continuation of part-writing principles, sight singing, ear training, keyboard activities, and computer application of concepts studied.
MUSI 282(1-1-0) Applied Piano: A sequence of courses in piano technique and repertoire on the level of
Beethoven Sonatas Op. 49, Nos. 1, 2; Bach Two and Three-part Inventions; Chopin Mazurkas, and Waltzes; and Bartok Mikrokosmos, Volumes III and IV; major scales and minor scales in contrary and parallel motion. Sophomore year sequence.
MUSI 284(1-1-0) Applied Percussion: A sequence of courses for the percussionist focusing on
intermediate techniques, sound production, exercises, etudes, and solo literature with emphasis on indefinite pitch and related instruments, keyboard percussion, and timpani. Sophomore year sequence.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 A survey of predominantly non-western traditional musical cultures, including ethnic origins of folk and traditional music in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This course analyzes the various characteristics of global music culture, including the relationship of music to language, ceremony, and cultural practices such as storytelling and dance. The course is open to all students, and no prior knowledge of music is necessary. Students will listen to musical selections, attend selected events, and write essays about these experiences.
MUSI 292Harmony, Sight Singing, and Ear Training III3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1 Further study of harmonic materials of previous theory courses, including nonharmonic tones, principles of harmonic progression, and part-writing procedures involving more complex harmonies. Introduction of secondary dominants, elementary modulation, and small forms such as phrases, periods, and phrase groups. Creative work, keyboard harmony, sight singing, ear training, analysis, and computer assignments will provide opportunities for application of theoretical concepts studied
MUSI 331Instructional and Classroom Design in Music3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on key elements of instructional and classroom design in music. Topics include: classroom management, teaching techniques, special learners, and lesson plan design. Advanced topics include: edTPA and technology in the music classroom. This course also requires 20 hours of field 904
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A study of basic concepts, techniques, and information related to offering instruction on the brass instruments - trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba - in the public schools.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A study of basic concepts, techniques, and information related to offering instruction in total percussion, including snare drum, keyboard percussion, timpani, accessory percussion, drum set, world percussion, and electronic percussion in the public schools.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is design to provide the students the fundamentals and techniques of how a band works administratively and pedagogically.
Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 A study of standard musical forms and structures and the principles upon which they are organized. The course aims to sensitize students to the musical events, including cadences, changes in tonality, meter, texture, and timbre, etc. that indicate important points in a composition's design.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The development of advanced skills in pedagogy for teaching trumpet. The course will emphasize solo and orchestral literature for trumpet.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses for the brass player focusing on the continuing development of playing habits, with an emphasis on embouchure development, technique development and recital repertoire. Junior year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of advanced courses in organ literature, including works of Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Mendelssohn, Franck, Widor, etc., and incorporating elements of church service playing, hymn playing, and anthem accompaniment, as well as orders of liturgical services and other special services. Performance 906
MUSI 280 and MUSI 269 and Sophomore Qualifying Exam
MUSI 370Percussion Pedagogy I3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The development of advanced skills in pedagogy for teaching percussion. The course emphasizes solo and orchestral literature for the snare drum (rudimental and concert), keyboard percussion (two and four mallet), Timpani, and Accessory Percussion.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A continuation of technical piano studies, focusing on compositional form and performance style in works from the various historical periods, including the Bach's Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier; Haydn's Sonatas; Chopin's Nocturnes; Brahms' Intermezzos; and Bartok's Mikrokosmos, Vol. V, or Sonatina. Junior year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses in technical studies and recital repertoire development for percussion instruments, especially the marimba and the tympani. Performance in student recitals and a minimum of ten hours practice per week required. Junior year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of courses in technical studies and recital repertoire development for strings. Performance in student recitals and a minimum of ten hours practice per week required. Junior year sequence. MUSI 165 - 907
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A comprehensive study of English, Italian, French, and German songs. This course is intended to help students build a repertoire for the senior recital. Junior year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A sequence of advanced courses in organ literature, including works of Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Mendelssohn, Franck, Widor, etc., and incorporating elements of church service playing, hymn playing, and anthem accompaniment, as well as orders of liturgical services and other special services. Performance from memory. Junior year sequence.
MUSI 382(1-1-0) Applied Piano: A continuation of technical piano studies, focusing on compositional
form and performance style in works from the various historical periods, including the Bach Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Haydn Sonatas, Chopin Nocturnes, Brahms Intermezzos, and Bartok Mikrokosmos, Vol. V, or Bartok Sonatina. Junior year sequence.
MUSI 384(1-1-0) Applied Percussion: A sequence of courses in technical studies and recital repertoire
development for percussion instruments, especially the marimba and the tympani. Performance in student recitals and a minimum of ten hours practice per week required. Junior year sequence.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A course developing the aural, visual, and oral skills necessary to conduct instrumental ensembles, including marching bands, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, and to increase proficiency in score reading.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A study of choral literature from 1450 through the twentieth century, including such activities as listening to and analyzing works.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A survey of music written for solo stringed keyboard instruments from the early Renaissance to the early decades of the twentieth century. Major works of the master composers will be studied and heard, and students will become familiar with the important keyboard genres, which comprise these composers' work.
Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 A study of methods and techniques for arranging compositions for band and orchestral ensembles, with special attention to transposition techniques and to basic compositional principles.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 A study in the listening, analysis, and evaluation of woodwind solo and ensemble music, in the evaluation of materials for technique development, and in the evaluation and selection of musical scores for band and symphonic performances.
Applied Instrumental Courses: 8 Credits MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour (students need to enroll in MUSI 165 each semester during their applied music sequence)
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The continued development of advanced skills in pedagogy for teaching trumpet. The course emphasizes trumpet ensemble literature and related chamber literature with trumpet.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 1 A course giving the student a basic understanding of classical guitar notation and technique, with the focus of instruction devoted to technical skills, sight reading, and performing simple pieces.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The continued development of advanced skills in pedagogy for teaching percussion. The emphasis will be on the area of percussion ensemble literature and related chamber literature with percussion.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 Senior recital preparation, with emphasis on the development of advanced techniques for woodwinds. Senior recital repertoire approval by instructor required in second semester. Senior year sequence. MUSI 165 - Music Seminar/Recital Hour required. May be repeated once for credit.
MUSI 482(1-1-0) Applied Piano: A sequence of courses in piano study to develop and refine performance
techniques and to begin preparations and repertoire practice for the senior recital, with selections chosen from such works as the Bach Well-Tempered Clavier (selections), the Bach French Suites, Mozart or BeethovenSonatas, Chopin Preludes or Nocturnes, Bartok Mikrokosmos, Vol. VI, Allegro Barbara or Suite, Op. 14, or other works. Senior year sequence.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 Keyboard pedagogy is the study of the specific principles of teaching piano and its literature from a child's first lesson through the advanced high school level. Students majoring in an instrument other than piano benefit from the universal knowledge of establishing and managing a teaching studio. Concepts addressing effective teaching and learning how to administer proficiency exams are part of the class as well. In-class teaching experience and outside observations will be conducted to help students of piano pedagogy gain confidence in their ability to be successful teachers. 913
