68 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.
Concert Attendance: Students are required to attend nine recitals or concerts on the Queens campus during the term. Repeatable for up to eight times. (Offered every fall and spring term) Credit: 0
Concert Attendance: Students are required to attend nine recitals or concerts on the Queens campus during the semester. May be repated up to four times. (Offered every fall d and spring term) Credit: 0
Introduction to Music: Study of the basic materials of music, survey of the important composers and examination of selected masterpieces with reference to cultural background; 245
Fundamentals of Music: An exploration of the construction, performance, sound, and experience of music. Students will encounter the building blocks of music, including pitch, rhythm, notation, and harmony, in addition to developing their senses as related to music. As an interactive course, students are encouraged to bring their instruments for hands-on demonstration and discovery. This course is appropriate for non-music majors. Previous musical experience is helpful, but not required.
Music Theory and Ear Training I: Fundamentals of music theory and ear training will cover the following topics: fundamentals of notation, tonality, scales and modes, triads, seventh chords, figured bass, and intervals as well as an introduction to two-part writing using Species Counterpoint. Ear Training and Aural Skills will introduce the fundamentals of sight singing, interval identification, and dictation in conjunction with the music theory materials. This course is the first of a four-semester sequence for all music majors.
Ear Training I: Ear Training I will introduce the fundamentals of sight singing, interval identification, and dictation. This course is the first of a four-semester sequence for all music majors and a requirement for the music minor.
Music Theory I: Music Theory I will cover the following topics: fundamentals of notation, tonality, scales and modes, triads, seventh chords, figured bass, and intervals as well as an introduction to two-part writing using Species Counterpoint. This course is the first of a four-semester sequence for all music majors and a requirement for the music minor.
Ear Training II: continuation of MUS 108. Ear Training and Aural Skills will include various identifications of four-part harmony, internal identification, and sight singing. This course is intended for music majors, as part of a four-semester sequence.
Music Theory II: continuation of MUS 109. Four-part writing in homophonic texture will be introduced that will include the functions of tonic, dominant, and pre-dominant harmonies. This course is intended for music majors, as part of a four- semester sequence.
Piano Class I: Two weekly sessions of 50 minutes in which students are provided with basic introductory instruction in piano, designed to build techniques, repertoire, sight-reading, harmonization, improvision skills and ensemble playing skills. These courses serve as preparation for MTH 395 and MTH 396. Regular practice required.
Piano Class II: Two weekly sessions of 50 minutes in which students are provided with basic introductory instruction in piano, designed to build technique, repertoire, sight-reading, harmonization, improvision skills and ensemble playing skills. These courses serve as preparation for MTH 395 and MTH 396. Regular practice required.
Piano Class III: Two weekly sessions of 50 minutes in which students are provided with more advanced piano instruction designed to build technique, repertoire, sight-reading, harmonization, improvisation skills and ensemble playing skills. These courses sever as preparation for MTH 395 and
Piano Class IV: Two weekly sessions of 50 minutes in which students are provided with more advanced piano instruction designed to build technique, repertoire, sight-reading, harmonization, improvisation skills and ensemble playing skills. These courses serve as preparation for MTH 395 and
Applied Music--Composition: Individual instruction for non- music majors and non-minors. Course fees apply. Repeatable for a total of 16 hrs. (Offered every fall and spring terms)
Beginning Guitar Class: One weekly session of 50 minutes in which students are instructed in the fundamentals of guitar playing. This course is open to all students. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. (Offered every fall and spring terms)
Applied Music--Composition: Private instruction for music and music therapy majors or music minors. Repeatable for a total of 16 hrs. (Offered every fall and spring terms)
Symphonic Band: This ensemble is open to all Queens University of Charlotte students. Repertoire will include standard band literature with a concert scheduled each term. of 8 hrs. (Offered every fall and spring terms.)
Queens Chamber Orchestra: The large instrumental ensemble for the Music program. Perfornming music in the Western Classical Music tradition while promoting the works of other diverse cultures. Regularly collaborating with community partners. Open to all qualified students and community members who complete a placement audition with the co- directors of the class prior to the add/drop deadline each semester. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. (Offered every fall term.)
Opera Theatre: The Opera Theatre performs operas and musicals, both complete productions and scene work in a concert setting. The class is open to all students through auditions. Repeatable up to four semesters.
Chamber Ensemble: This ensemble is open instrumentation or voice type. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. Credit: 1 hr.
Guitar Ensemble: Study and performance of ensemble music for guitar. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. Credit: 1 hr.
Jazz Ensemble: Study and performance of jazz literature. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. Credit: 1 hr.
Zymphony New Music Ensemble: Study and performance of 20th and 21st Century concert music. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. Credit: 1 hr.
Choral Union: A mixed voice, non-auditioned choir open to students, alumni, faculty, staff and outside community members that performs choral music from all styles and time periods, often with professional instrumental accompaniment. All levels of experience are welcome, and no audition is required. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. Credit: 1 hr.
Royal Voices of Charlotte: A select chamber choral ensemble that performs for University and community functions. Admission by audition only; repertoire includes secular and sacred choral works, designed for smaller chamber groups, from the fifteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. (Offered every fall, spring, and summer terms.)
History of Jazz: A survey of blues, jazz, and rock 'n roll from the turn of the century to the last few decades of the 20th 2 century. Important artists/composers will be studied and representative examples of the music will be experienced.
History of Musical Theatre: This course introduces the elements of music and drama, different styles of dance, and various forms of musical dramas, which influenced the creation of musical theatre in the early 20th century. A survey of 247
Music Theory and Ear Training IV: Continuation of MUS 205. Further chromtaic harmony will be included in four-part writing in homophonic texture and analysis as well as various synthetic scales. This course will include an introduction to twentieth-century techniques. Ear Training and Aural Skills will include various identifications of four-part chromatic harmony, interval identification, and sight singing in conjunction with the music theory materials. In addition to aural identification of large forms and popular music forms. Improvisation in jazz and blues styles as well as chromatic solfege will be included in sight-singing examples. This course is intended for music majors, as part of a four-semester sequence. Prerequisite:
Ear Training III: continuation of MUS 110. Ear Training and Aural Skills will include various identifications of four-part chromatic harmony, interval identification, and sight singing in conjunction with the music theory materials. This course is intended for music majors, as part of a four-semester sequence.
Music Theory III: continuation of MUS 111. Chromatic harmony will be included in four-part writing of homophonic texture and analysis. An introduction to large forms will include Binary, Ternary, Rounded Binary, Fugue, Rondo, and Sonata forms. This course is intended for music majors, as part of a four-semester sequence.
Ear Training IV: continuation of MUS 208. Ear Training and Aural Skills will include various identifications of four-part chromatic harmony, interval identification, and sight singing in addition to aural identification of large forms and popular music forms. Improvisation in jazz and blues styles as well as chromatic solfege will be included in sight-singing examples. This course is intended for music majors, as part of a four- semester sequence.
Music Theory IV: continuation of MUS 209. Further chromatic harmony will be included in four-part writing in homophonic texture and analysis as well as various synthetic scales, serialism, set theory, and other 20th Century techniques. This course will include an introduction to twentieth-century techniques. This course is intended for music majors, as part of a four-semester sequence.
Diction for Singers (English/Latin/Italian): Two 50-minute periods weekly in which students are instructed in use of the International Phonetic Alphabet as well as the correct pronunciation of the English, Latin and Italian languages in relation to singing.
Diction for Singers (French/German): Two 50-minute periods weekly in which students are instructed in the correct pronunciation of the French and German languages in relation to singing.
Applied Music--Percussion: Private instruction for the first year of private collegiate study for music or music therapy majors or music minors. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. (Offered every fall and spring terms.)
Introduction to World Music: This course introduces students to the music of non-Western countries/regions, their traditional instruments, a sample of musical events, and listening examples. Students also explore how music fits into each society and make comparisons to their own experiences. Students are taught the basic elements of Western music and given listening examples as a basis for comparison. Also included are experiences in other creative art forms of each country/region such as dance and visual art. Each section concludes with examples of music representing the fusion of each country/region and Western music. (Offered every summer term.)
Music in America: A survey of music and musical practices in the United States from colonial times to the present, with particular emphasis on those inherent qualities which have permeated America's serious and popular music over the past three centuries. No musical background necessary.
Advanced Percussion: A course designed to develop technique for playing hand drums and small percussion 248
Conducting: A course designed to develop conducting skills appropriate to the performance of instrumental and choral music. Basic skills covered include the negotiation of various patterns, preparatory beats, cues, releases, etc.
Music Technology: Music Technology will explore the current use of technology in music related fields through traditional concert music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Topics will include notation software, recording, audio and video editing, and mixing in stereo and 5.1 formats.
Musician in Modern Society: This course explores the skills needed for musicians to succeed in the 21st-century, focusing on different types of music careers. Students create portfolio, publicity, and promotional materials, acquire skills and knowledge needed for self-management, private studio development, job interviews, and auditions and explore budgeting, marketing, fundraising, and grant writing. Theory I). (Offered every spring term.)
Piano Pedagogy: An introduction to piano pedagogy. Piano methods for use in teaching beginning and intermediate students will be examined. Emphasis is placed on student participation and discussion, independent student research, writing, and the development of critical, cognitive, and evaluative aural skills. Writing assignments are required. MUS 314.)
Piano Literature: A survey of keyboard literature from the Baroque period to the Twenty-first Century. Emphasis is placed on independent student research, score analysis, and the development of critical, cognitive, and evaluative aural skills. Brief writing assignments are required.
Guitar Pedagogy: An introduction to guitar pedagogy. Emphasis is placed on student participation, discussion, writing, and the development of critical, cognitive, and evaluative aural skills.
Guitar Literature: A survey of guitar literature. Emphasis is placed on score analysis and the development of critical, cognitive, and evaluative aural skills.
Music History and Literature I: A detailed study of the evolution of musical styles and forms from the beginning of western music through the Baroque stylistic period. Representative works and composers will be examined as students build a technique for listening analytically and critically. Emphasis is placed on lecture, student research, writing, and the development of critical, cognitive, and evaluate aural skills. Writing assignments, including several brief projects and a research paper, are required. This course fulfills the Writing Intensive requirement for the music major. Required for music majors. Non-majors by permission only. (Offered every fall term.)
Music History and Literature II: Continuation of MUS 321, from the Classical stylistic period to the present. This course fulfills the Writing Intensive requirement for the music major. Required for music majors. Non-majors by permission only. (Offered every spring term.)
Vocal Pedagogy: In this course, students will gain an understanding of the basics of teaching singing, including an introduction to the schools of singing, basic anatomy and physiology, and various methods and models. Students will create instructional materials, such as vocalizes, pertinent articles, etc. (Offered every fall term alternating with MUS 325.)
Vocal Ltierature: This course will be a survey of western solo vocal literature from approximately 1550 to the present, with emphasis on Italian, German, French, English, and American song. Students will learn about important styles and composers of vocal literature and study representative selections of the standard vocal literature through listening assignments, song performances, and other projects. Students will gain a working knowledge of appropriate vocal repertoire for students and various voice types.
Guitar Seminar: Performance preparation of repertoire for guitar ensemble. Ensemble literature for guitar will be examined. Elements such as fingerings, dynamic markings, and tempo choices will be discussed. Students will lead group rehearsals and work on conducting. This course partners with the co-requisite course, MUS 185 004 Guitar Ensemble. Repeatable for a total of 8 hours. (Offered every fall and spring terms.)
Independent Study: Students who have shown a particular interest in some phase of music may pursue this interest under the guidance of an appointed faculty member.
Topics: Music History and Literature: An in-depth study of a specific musical era or genre. Significant developments, genres and composers will be studied from the social and cultural context.
Music Topics: Styles and Substance: An examination of history, theory, or world music. Course may be repeated with different topics.
repeatable with different topics)
Applied Music--Percussion: Advanced private instruction for music or music therapy majors. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. (Offered every fall and spring term.)
Functional Piano Class I: Includes procedures and skills for proficiency in reading, harmonization and transposition at sight as well as experience in accompanying. Required course for all music and music therapy majors. The class meets for two 50-minute sessions each week. Students may exempt this course by passing an examination. This course must be repeated until required skills are mastered. Prerequisite: Sufficient background in keyboard skills, as determined by the instructor and Piano Proficiency Exam Parts I and II. Repeatable for a total of 2 hrs. (Offered every fall term) Credit:
Half Recital: The preparation and performance of a half-recital in the major instrument. A performance examination must be ed passed at least 30 days before the scheduled day of performance. See the Music Department Handbook for program/recording fee.
Topics in International Preparation: This course examines international aspects of a selected subject matter in preparation for international experience around the same topic. Open only to students enrolled in the corresponding international experience course. Students must earn a grade of C- or better (an average of 70) in order to participate in MUS 399. The total number of hours for MUS 398 and MUS 399 cannot exceed four total hours.
International Experience: The international experience component of MUS 398. Students will have the opportunity to experience firsthand many of the topics studied in the prerequisite course. The total number of hours for MUS 398 and MUS 399 cannot exceed four total hours.
Full Recital: The preparation and performance of a full public solo recital in the major instrument. A performance examination must be passed at least 30 days before the scheduled day of performance. See the Music Department Handbook for program/recording fee.
Music Capstone I: This capstone experience is a research- based class that offers students practical experience in researching, writing and presenting an independent senior thesis project. The specific thesis topic is to be selected by the student in consultation with his/her music advisor.
Plus: Principal Applied Instrument (12 hrs)
Seminar in Applied Analysis: Independent study and analysis of compositional techniques and formal styles of compositions studied in music literature and applied music classes.
Senior Thesis/Project: Required of all Music majors with a concentration in Piano Pedagogy or Music History. The Pass/Fail will be assigned only after all aspects of the senior thesis/project are completed. Repeatable for a total of 12 hrs. Credit: 4
Applied Music--Percussion: Advanced private instruction for music or music therapy majors by recommendation of the faculty. Repeatable for a total of 8 hrs. (Offered every fall and spring term.)
Source: Queens University of Charlotte's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
