75 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.
MUS 007Aural Skills1
Intended for music majors and minors. This course focuses on singing, playing, and writing melodies/rhythms/harmonies in different tonalities and scales. It also explores chromaticism, mixed meters, singing and playing two-part music simultaneously, and singing together in parts. Course may be repeated until the Aural Proficiency exam is passed. A maximum of 2 credit hours may be counted toward the music major. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
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may be repeated until the Aural Proficiency exam is passed.
This course explores the basic building blocks of music, music notation, and music performance. Students will learn how to read music, develop a basic understanding of rhythm, pulse, meter, and tempo, and sing simple melodies. This course is intended for students with little to no experience performing music from notated sheet music and students who have not recently performed in their high school or college music programs. Attribute/Distribution: HE, HU, Q
Music can express that which cannot be said in words. This is part of the reason that it has been cherished in every culture in the history of humanity. By learning and applying active listening skills through a survey of Western Art Music, students develop an ability to think critically about music and to write intelligently about a wide range of musical experience. Intended for those not planning to major or minor in music. Attribute/Distribution: HE, HU
An introduction to different musical styles, aesthetic, and humanistic approaches in understanding art, folk, traditional, and popular music of the world. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W
Up to six credits may be used for graduation credit in CEAS and CBE. Admission by audition. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Student/community/professional musicians performing classic, contemporary and original big band literature. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Beginning techniques and skills for guitar, either acoustic or electric. For students with less than a year of guitar instruction. Students supply their own instruments. Fees associated with course. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Instruction for beginning piano students, including rudiments of musical notation in relation to the keyboard; beginning pieces for solo piano and the group. Required course for music majors. Fees associated with course (waived for declared music majors). Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Up to six credits may be used for graduation credit in CEAS and CBE. Fees associated with course. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Introduction to the fundamental elements of music theory—pitch and rhythm recognition, intervals, scales, keys, harmonies, etc. The ability to read music comfortably in at least one clef is required. This course is intended for students who have recent experience performing with notated sheet music in their high school or college music programs and/or students who intend to major or minor in music. Attribute/Distribution: HE, HU, Q
Exercises in writing in four-part chorale style. This includes all diatonic chords and non-harmonic tones. Elementary modulation and secondary dominants are introduced. Open to majors or non-majors. Prerequisites: MUS 081 Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU, Q
Continuation of Elementary Harmony – Includes advanced modulation, chromatic chords and harmony, and introduction to 20th century harmonic idioms. Course will prepare students continuing on to graduate school to take harmony exams for placement. Prerequisites: MUS 082 Attribute/Distribution: HU
Intensive study of a topic of special interest not covered in other courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HE, HU, W
MUS 101(THTR 101) Give My Regards to Broadway: A History of the American Musical3
An examination of the history and development of the American musical, highlights specific repertoire from the musical theatre tradition, and challenges students to think critically about how the American musical has contributed to ideas about American national identity. Students examine how factors such as race, gender, and class have been and continue to be negotiated on the American musical theatre stage. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU
This course explores how women have expressed their agency, authorship, worldview, and power through music, and how women have used music to navigate their place in social contexts throughout history. Students engage with representations of womanhood in music in a variety of ways, including the contributions of women as performers, composers, conductors, patrons, and teachers; the portrayal of women in opera, musical theater, and contemporary popular music; expressions of gender and sexuality in music; and feminist perspectives in musical criticism. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU
An introduction to Beethoven's life and works in the context of the rapid transformation of European Society and its systems of government and religion, from Enlightenment to Revolution to Early Romanticism. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W
Works of one or more composers studied in depth. Repeatable as course topic changes. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: HE, HU, W
Survey of keyboard music from 1600 through today. Emphasis on major composers from Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern styles, as well as developments of keyboard instruments and their influence on compositional styles. Attribute/Distribution: HE, HU, W
A study of the history of orchestra literature from Baroque to the 21st Century, the orchestra as an ensemble and the orchestra as social construct. Attribute/Distribution: HE, HU, W
MUS 125Dark Romanticism in Music: The Sublime, the Uncanny, and the Psychological Confession3
This course will examine works by Western classical music composers that were engaged with philosophical and emotional concepts of Romanticism in the nineteenth-century. As a response to the rational Enlightenment culture of the 1700s, composers wrote about the power of Nature, emotions, primitive instincts, and a fascination with the grotesque and gothic. In addition to listening to works, students will consider related works of visual art, literature and philosophical essays. They will be required to attend exhibits, lectures, performances. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W
Introductory course intended for music majors, minors, and non music majors. A synopsis and exploration of the social history and musical foundations of jazz, and how they relate to contemporary popular music today. Knowledge of music is recommended. Attribute/Distribution: HE, HU
A study of the roots of jazz. Starting in West Africa, the course traces the synthesis of African and European elements to 1945. Musicians covered are Gottshalk, Bolden, Morton, Armstrong, Hawkins, Basie, Ellington and others. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU
A survey of modern jazz from 1945 to the present. Musicians covered include Parker, Gillespie, Monk, Davis, Coltrane, Hancock, and Coleman. Can be taken independently of Jazz History I, but the first course would be helpful. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU
This course examines collaborations, convergences and cross-influences between musicians, visual artists and other creatives in late 19th-early 20th century Europe and America. Students explore ways artists responded as individuals and collaborators, gain perspective on aesthetic movements including romanticism, realism, impressionism, symbolism, expressionism, futurism, dada, surrealism, and how these movements shaped the development of modernist culture. Students work with materials in the Music Department and LU Art Galleries teaching collection, studying the connections between music and visual works. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W
MUS 132The Soundtrack of Our Lives—History of American Popular Music3
Popular music has always been intertwined with social, cultural and historical changes. This course examines pop music from the emergence of record labels in the early twentieth century to the present, which reflects the complicated history of race in the United States, while celebrating our shared triumphs and grieving our national tragedies. Students will read source materials, engage in active listening and discussion, and lead presentations on twenty-first century pop music. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W
From silent films to sprawling epics, music has been an integral part of the cinematic experience. Film music has entered the public consciousness in a unique way. How did this art form begin and how has it evolved with the cinematic landscape? This course will dive into film music’s history by looking at the composers who wrote it. We will look at some of the greatest film scores of all time. No experience reading or performing music is required. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Study of the Jazz/Commercial Music theory that is the foundation of a good jazz solo, composition or arrangement. A course designed to give instruction in basic chord progressions, functional analysis of jazz tunes, and ear training. Prerequisites: MUS 081 and MUS 127 Attribute/Distribution: HU
The course is designed as an in-depth exploration of the elements, origins and practical application of Jazz music theory. Prerequisites: MUS 139 Attribute/Distribution: HU
This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of sound recording technology and its correlations to the development of music genres and aesthetics in the social history of contemporary music. Students will learn to plan and complete a basic multitrack recording including tracking and mixing, be proficient in the set-up and operation of studio equipment, and develop a knowledge of different microphones, signal processors, and other recording technology in the context of different music genres and diverse socio-musical aesthetics. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
This course examines the process of creating a complete sound recording, including aspects of music business from the historical perspective of diverse contemporary music genres. Students will learn advanced skills for mixing multitrack recordings and the mastering techniques for recordings, advanced operational skills for digital audio workstations, and understand the processes of recording through publishing popular music in different social and musical contexts. Prerequisites: MUS 141 Attribute/Distribution: AL
MUS 147Music in Context: A History of Music in Europe's Cities, Courts, and Churches3
An examination of the relationship between music and the cities, courts, and churches of Europe from approximately 800 to 1800. Students analyze the development of polyphony at Notre Dame Cathedral in the Middle Ages, the friction between the sacred and the secular, the fusion of music and poetry during the Renaissance, the formation of the first public concert series in the eighteenth century, and more. Attribute/Distribution: HE, W
MUS 148Fire the Cannon: A History of Classical Music in Europe and the United States3
An examination of the so-called classical music tradition in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Students analyze the formation of the classical music canon. Students also consider music outside the traditional parameters of the canon, gaining an understanding of the personal, cultural, and political forces that shape and reshape the canon to the present day. Attribute/Distribution: HE, W
The string quartet has often been the medium for Western composers’ most complex and personal music. The course will examine the literature for the string quartet starting from the works of Haydn and ending with contemporary works by living American composers. In analyzing these works, the student should gain an understanding of the evolution of style in Western music through the lens of the string quartet, as well as understanding how the string quartet reflects the internal evolution of the. Prerequisites: MUS 081 Attribute/Distribution: HE, HU
Intensive study of a topic of special interest not covered in other courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HE, HU, W
MUS 213(ASIA 213) Drums and Gongs: Asian Musical Cultures3
A study of Asian music history, theory, aesthetics, and cultures through hands-on performance workshops, lectures, and seminars. Attribute/Distribution: HU
Beginning study of conducting techniques, conducting patterns, and gestures, with basic score reading, preparation, and analysis. Ability to read music is necessary; permission by instructor is required. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Study of choral composition, voicing, harmonization, writing to models, and original composition. Ability to read music is required. Attribute/Distribution: HU
The analysis and composition of pieces in the standard forms of the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras in Western music. Exercises in chromatic harmony. During the course students will write Chorale Variations, a Two-Part Invention, a Fugue, a Song, a Minuet, and an Intermezzo. They will analyze pieces in the following forms: Fugue, Variations, and Sonata Allegro. Prerequisites: MUS 082 Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
MUS 253Twentieth Century Composition and Orchestration4
Writing for the standard Western orchestral instruments based on 20th century models. Use of the computer for score preparation and as a tool for music composition. Students will be required to purchase the Sibelius music-writing software. Prerequisites: MUS 082 Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Students will work closely with a faculty supervisor toward planning and implementing their final Capstone project in the areas of performance, composition, research thesis or some combination agreed upon. For Music Majors only. May be taken in the Junior year. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: HU
Intensive study of a topic of special interest not covered in other courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HE, HU, W
A continuing study of conducting techniques, conducting patterns, and gestures, as well as score reading, preparation, and analysis. Ability to read music is necessary. Students should have taken MUS222 Conducting I, although commensurate conducting experience may be taken into consideration with the approval of the instructor. Prerequisites: MUS 222 Attribute/Distribution: HU
The Capstone Project is the final assessment for the music major in the areas of performance, composition, research thesis or a combination thereof as agreed with the faculty supervisor. For Music Majors only. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Prerequisites: MUS 270 Attribute/Distribution: HU
Intensive study of a topic of special interest not covered in other courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HE, HU, W
