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45 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 101Introduction to Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 102Fundamentals of Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 104Pop, Rock, & Soul

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 140Music and Technology

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 150Engaging with Music I

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 151Engaging with Music II

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 217”One Nation Under a Groove”?: American Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 219Opera as Global Musical Theatre

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 221Western Music History I: Medieval to 1750

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 222Western Music History II: 1750 to the Present

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 223Jazz Theory & Improvisation

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: MUS 151 Engaging with Music II . A study of improvisational techniques from the jazz tradition. Readings and listening assignments; analysis and performance projects.

MUS 229World Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 235History of Jazz

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 238239 - Empire, Madness and Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 244Music & Gender

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 246Musics of Brazil

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 248Music & Race

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 251Theory & Practice in Western Tonal Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: MUS 151 Engaging with Music II or permission of the instructor. Focused development of skills and concepts from Engaging with Music I and II, engaging with harmonic syntax, phrase structures, melodic embellishment, tonicization, modulation, borrowed beat divisions, syncopation, swing rhythm, and improvisation.

MUS 313Form & Analysis

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: MUS 251 Theory & Practice in Western Tonal Music . A survey of musical forms from the smallest units of structure (motive, phrase) through binary, ternary, rondo, and sonata forms, as well as fugal practices. Constant analysis of music of all periods embodying various structural principles. Reading and listening assignments; semester project.

MUS 317Counterpoint

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: MUS 251 Theory & Practice in Western Tonal Music A study of counterpoint focusing on the contrapuntal practices of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Analysis and written exercises leading to several composition projects. Readings from historical treatises; secondary source readings and listening assignments.

MUS 328Methodologies & Epistemologies in Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 340341 - Composition Workshop I & II

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 350Orchestration

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: MUS 251 Theory & Practice in Western Tonal Music or permission of the instructor. A systematic study of the capabilities of the instruments of the orchestra in musical composition. A thorough understanding of these capabilities will be mastered through a study of selected works for solo instruments, chamber works, and orchestral literature. Readings and listening assignments; analysis and written exercises; semester project.

MUS 351Theory & Practice in Western Chromatic Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: MUS 251 Theory & Practice in Western Tonal Music or permission of the instructor. Focused development of skills and concepts of Western chromatic music including: mode mixture and altered scale degrees, enharmonic practices, chromatic sequences, common-tone chords and modulations, chromatic key relationships, as well as the melodic and rhythmic features of concert music, ragtime, jazz, the blues, and popular music, including super-subdivided beats, asymmetric meters, cross rhythms, and improvisation.

MUS 352Theory & Practice in Western Post-Tonal Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: MUS 251 Theory & Practice in Western Tonal Music or permission of the instructor An exploration of the extraordinary variety of trends that have evolved in Western concert music since 1900. Students will use appropriate analytical methods for understanding these musics, engage with primary and secondary source readings to understand their context, and compose short pieces using the techniques studied. Topics may include minimalism, atonality, serialism, modernism, impressionism, noise, polystylism, chance operations, improvisation, electronic music, and performance art.

MUS 440441 - Composition Workshop III & IV

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Repeatable: may be repeated for credit.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: MUS 340, 341 Composition Workshop I & II or permission of the instructor. Individual weekly lessons in advanced music composition. Students will complete substantial self-directed projects leading to performance. Listening and analysis will be assigned as needed. These courses may serve as the CUE in the theory/composition concentration, and may be repeated for credit.

MUS 900Class Applied Music

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 901Individual Applied Music - First Area

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 911Individual Applied Music - Additional Area

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 920Techniques Course

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Technique development for students involved in the Moravian Music Education Certification Program.

MUS 931Applied Music - Senior Recital I

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 932Applied Music - Senior Recital II

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 935945 - College Choir

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 936946 - Chamber Choir

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 937947 - Treble Ensemble

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 938Opera Workshop

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 939Collegium Musicum

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 940951 - Chamber Orchestra

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 941Musica da Camera

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 942952 - Wind Ensemble

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 943953 - Jazz Big Band

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 944954 - Jazz Improvisation Ensemble

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 950Small Ensembles

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 960Music Internship

Each internship is to be designed in consultation with a faculty sponsor and an on-site supervisor, and will include an academic project to be defined by and submitted to the faculty sponsor for evaluation. Graded Pass/Fail only.

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

MUS 970Music Independent Study/Research

Each independent study/research course is to be designed in consultation with a faculty sponsor.

Subject: MUS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Academic Catalog
Source: catalog.muhlenberg.edu

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