Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus · Courses
MUSI
68 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.
None. Restriction: Students must be enrolled in a music degree program, the Music Minor, the Certificate in Popular Music Studies, or the Musical Theatre Track of the Theatre, BA. Description: Introduces skills musicians need to discern, recall, translate, and reproduce musical events. Explores treble and bass clef, rhythm in common meters, diatonic melody, and chord quality. Involves basic improvisation and keyboard harmony.
MUSI 111 - Ear Training I MUSC 111 with a grade of C or better.
Corequisite
None. Restriction: Students must be enrolled in a music degree program, the Music Minor, or the Certificate in Popular Music Studies. Description: Develops skills musicians need to discern, recall, translate, and reproduce musical events. Explores alto clef, rhythm in less common meters, diatonic melody and harmony, and instruments in B-flat. Involves basic improvisation and keyboard harmony.
None. Restriction: Students must be enrolled in a music degree program, the Music Minor, the Certificate in Popular Music Studies, or the Musical Theatre Track of the Theatre, BA. Description: Introduces the materials, forms, and aesthetics of Western music, including popular music. Explores basic notation, temperament, scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, chord labels, and elements of musical form. Involves basic model composition.
None. Restriction: Students must be enrolled in a music degree program, the Music Minor, or the Certificate in Popular Music Studies. Description: Investigates the materials, forms, and aesthetics of Western music, including popular music. Explores diatonic harmony, embellishing tones, tonicization, common chord loops, and Classical phrase structure. Involves basic model composition.
none Description: Builds organ skills for performance of sacred and secular music. Prepares students to perform chamber music involving the organ, including works for organ and winds, strings, brass, or voice. Functions as a studio class for informal recitals and master classes, as well as presentations on such topics as hymn playing and choral accompaniment.
None. Restriction: Students must be enrolled in a music degree program, the Music Minor, or the Certificate in Popular Music Studies. Description: Develops skills musicians need to discern, recall, translate, and reproduce musical events. Explores tenor clef, uncommon meters, chromatic melody and harmony, and instruments in A and F. Involves improvisation and keyboard harmony.
None. Restriction: Students must be enrolled in a music degree program, the Music Minor, or the Certificate in Popular Music Studies. Description: Develops skills musicians need to discern, recall, translate, and reproduce musical events. Explores chromatic harmony, mixed meter, materials of post-tonal music, and instruments in E-flat and G. Involves improvisation and keyboard harmony.
None. Restriction: Students must be enrolled in a music degree program, the Music Minor, or the Certificate in Popular Music Studies. Description: Investigates the materials, forms, and aesthetics of Western music, including popular music. Explores modulation, modal mixture, the Neapolitan, augmented-sixth chords, sonata form, and blues and song forms. Involves model composition.
None. Restriction: Students must be enrolled in a music degree program, the Music Minor, or the Certificate in Popular Music Studies. Description: Introduces the materials, forms, and aesthetics of post-tonal art music. Explores diatonic modes, synthetic scales, pitch-class sets, 12-tone music, basic transformation theory, and recent compositional trends. Involves model composition.
MUSI 212 , MUSI 216 , and the equivalent of a B Jury, or instructor permission Description: A keyboard approach to understanding harmony observed during the common practice period. Study through the weekly performance and realization of various exercises includes figured bass, score reading (works for small and large orchestra), playing by ear, and applied theoretical analysis. Projects include creating a reduced, four-part score from one movement of a large orchestral work and a transcription of one movement from a large orchestral work.
None. Restriction: none Description: Introduces skills needed to create music with computers and other electronics. Explores MIDI, digital audio, editing, mixing, and FX with emphasis on compositional technique and professional deliverables. Includes projects that incorporate visual media like film scenes and advertisements.
As appropriate to course content Description: Offered on an experimental or temporary basis to explore topics not included in the established curriculum. A given topic may be offered under any special topic identity no more than three times. Special topics numbered 281 are offered primarily for lower-level undergraduate students.
None. Description: Explores career pathways in music and related disciplines. Develops the skills, materials, and mindset required for success in the performing arts. Establishes connections between potential professional goals and specific educational and extracurricular experiences available at IUP.
MUSI 311 Description: An opportunity to apply basic conducting techniques to choral music. Each student conducts the class in standard choral works. Includes survey of suitable literature, organizational problems, voice testing, rehearsal techniques, program building, interpretation, and diction.
MUSI 311 Description: An opportunity to apply basic conducting skills to various instrumental ensembles. Includes a survey of suitable literature, organizational problems, audition procedures, rehearsal techniques, program building, and interpretation.
EDUC 242 Restriction: Admission to Step 1 of the 3-Step Process Description: Develops music education skills, techniques, and materials for students with disabilities and special needs within the music classroom setting. Legal rights of students with special needs are stressed with regard to opportunities to participate in music activities and ensembles. Must be elected concurrently with EDUC 242 . Includes field experiences in the music classroom during the EDUC 242 observation period.
MUSI 212 , admission to Step 1 of the 3-Step Process Description: A pedagogical overview of music methods related to general and choral music curricula for the middle school, junior high school, and high school. Emphasizes the complex factors of adolescent behavior and physiology, administrative issues, performance expectations, and conceptually based learning that influence music teaching at this level.
FBI, Act 34, and Act 151 clearances, instructor permission Description: Practical applications of string methods and string pedagogy techniques for instruction in hands-on teaching experiences in individual and ensemble settings. The emphasis is on sequential instruction and reflective assessment of teaching techniques and goals.
Junior standing in piano and a piano major or minor Description: A survey of current and significant past developments in teaching of piano, both privately and in small and large classes. The various piano methods are analyzed, compared, criticized, and adapted to each individual’s use.
APMU 255 or instructor permission Description: Introduces vocal anatomy, the acoustics of singing, and various methods of vocal instruction. Applies pedagogical principles through mock teaching and teaching observation, and students keep a teaching journal.
MUSI 116 Theory II and ( MUSI 180 Technology for General Musicianship or MUSI 240 Technology in the Music Classroom) Restriction: Music major or instructor permission. Description: Develops the skills necessary to administer and direct contemporary marching bands at the post-secondary level, including such topics as drill conception and design, instruction methods, and ensemble organization.
None. Restriction: None. Dual Listed: MUSI 516 Introduction to Research in Music Theory. Description: Introduces the discipline of music theory to advanced students via recent scholarly literature. Surveys important approaches to tonal and post-tonal art music, popular music, and theory pedagogy, with emphasis on issues relevant to non-theorists. Cross-Listed: No
MUSI 216 Description: All instruments of orchestra are studied from the viewpoint of their contribution to the total sound of ensemble. Ranges and timbres are considered, as well as actual arranging of selected music.
None. Restriction: None. Dual Listed: MUSI 518 Description: Surveys organizational models found in Western music via representative works and movements. Explores binary and ternary form, sonata form, rondo form, sectional and strophic forms, variation, blues, and so on. Introduces imitative processes like canon and fugue. Cross-Listed: No
Junior standing Description: Explores skills needed to be successful, versatile, and employable in the 21st century. Includes curriculum vitae preparation, self-promotion and marketing, finding and creating opportunities, communication skills, grant-writing and resource acquisition, and developing a professional network. Taught in a seminar format with guest lectures.
As appropriate to course content Description: May provide an in-depth study of a narrowly defined area of the discipline. Subject matter changes with repeated offering of the course. Repeated: May be repeated for credit.
