64 courses with the subject MTC, 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.
This course in aural skills and musicianship is for music majors and requires foundational skills in music performance from notation. It is designed as an elective supplement for students currently enrolled in aural skills courses who wish to have extra practice and instruction.
Why is music one of the few cross-cultural universals? Why don't other species have music? This course considers why we invest so much time and money in creating and listening to music by exploring specific topics such as psychoacoustics, emotional responses to music, creativity, how music reflects and influences culture, music's role in shaping personal identity, how music contributes to movies, and music's potential as a therapeutic agent. We will listen to a diverse array of music ranging from Bach to the Beatles, to jazz, to music from India, Cuba, and other cultures around the world. Gen Ed Attribute: Interdisciplinary
This course covers music fundamentals and is designed for music enthusiasts with limited formal training. Throughout the semester students will explore these fundamentals from both traditional and progressive angles. Studies will involve not only Western art music (Classical music) but also a variety of popular and contemporary examples. They will explore various ways to notate rhythm, melody, and harmony. Creativity and composition are crucial. Students should keep an open mind and be ready to create sounds, share opinions, and listen to music from a wide range of styles and genres. For non-music majors only. Gen Ed Attribute: Arts Distributive Distance education offering may be available.
Introduction to music theory, the materials of music. Analysis and creative activity.
Form; motive; cadence; phrase; melody. Analysis and creative activity.
Development of basic hearing skills, chiefly through sight singing and dictation activities based on the subject matter of MTC 112.
Continued development of basic hearing skills.
The Studio Music Ensemble is a group with flexible instrumentation built around a pop band core that performs music in a variety of styles, including existing songs and original compositions. Key aspects of the course include performance, improvisation, collaboration, effective rehearsal techniques, and live audio. Enrollment is determined by audition. Repeatable for credit.
This course is designed to help build financial and entrepreneurial skills to properly monetize musical aspirations. Branding, marketing, and fiscal strategies will be applied to multiple musical endeavors including business and ensemble management, musician career development, and marketing creative activities and products. Personal financial accounting and budgeting will be examined. Each student will choose a musical endeavor to focus on and will complete the course having written a five-year business plan to build the foundation for a self-sustaining career.
Overview of recording digital audio relating to the "home" or small studio for performance majors. Basics of live sound, microphones and placement, recording, editing, and mixing digital audio.
0.5 INM 221 Applied Music Education Lesson 2 3 or or Applied Music Education Lesson VOK 221 ENS XXX Marching Band/Opera/Chamber 1 in Orchestra ENS XXX Concert Ensemble 0.5 3 INS XXX Foundations Course 1 3 Credits 18 14.5 Semester Four
This class focuses on the techniques of music production in a studio setting. Students learn the basics of recording, editing, mixing, and mastering in a digital audio workstation. MTC 170 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 110 or MTC 112. 2026-2027 CATALOG - UNDERGRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC THEORY, HISTORY, AND COMPOSITION
Transfer Credits
Harmony and counterpoint; dissonance; voice motion; harmonic progression; modulation; texture. Analysis and creative activity.
In depth analysis of specific styles, genres, and forms; compositional style studies MTC 213 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 212.
Material of advanced difficulty involving chromatic alteration, foreign modulation, and intricate rhythms. MTC 214 Prerequisite or Corequisite: MTC 113 and MTC 115.
Continuation of MTC 214 and activities involving nontonal music. MTC 215 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 212 and MTC 214.
This course presents an overview of the psychology of music. Students will consider a diverse array of topics including emotional responses, expressive performance, implication-realization, memory and attention, development, creativity, special musical abilities and deficits, musical preferences, and music therapy. Along with learning about what psychologists have discovered about how composers, performers, and listeners create and process music, students will also discuss how psychologists study music in the laboratory and the challenges involved in designing experiments and interpreting data. Thus, along with reading a textbook, students will also read cutting-edge research and discuss how to empirically investigate musical experience.
This class provides a continuation of production principles introduced in MTC 170, as students explore more advanced topics in recording, editing, mixing, and mastering in a digital audio workstation. They also learn to use analog synthesizers and create original studio-based music. MTC 270 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 170.
Techniques used in composing, orchestrating, mixing, and recording music for the film, video and television industry. Use of sequencing software and sample libraries to write production- quality cues synchronized to film and video clips. MTC 271 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 170; or permission of the instructor.
Materials and techniques of electronic music and their use in composition. Laboratory experience in the composition of electronic music. MTC 273 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 110 or MTC 112.
In this course, students gain practical experience composing video game music and audio cues. Students also gain a well-rounded understanding of the history and current state of contemporary video game music and audio, how the game development process works, the evolution of game audio, and production techniques. MTC 274 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 170; or permission of the instructor.
This course explores modern songwriting techniques, song lyric creation, hooks, song form, melodic development, pop harmony, and rhythm and grooves. Students will study and react to songs by top modern songwriters. Students will compose and record a number of original songs for the course. MTC 275 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 110 or MTC 112.
Creative writing in the forms, styles, and media best suited to the capabilities and needs of the student. MTC 312 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 112.
Further application of MTC 312, stressing contemporary techniques. MTC 313 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 312.
The orchestra; use of instruments individually and in combination. MTC 341 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 212. 451
An overview of major trends in music analysis applied to a variety of musical styles. Addresse how analysis informs composition, performance, scholarship and pedagogy. MTC 342 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 212. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis
The contrapuntal techniques of tonal music. Chorale prelude and invention. MTC 344 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 212.
Advanced contrapuntal forms including canon and fugue. MTC 345 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 212.
A basic course in jazz/popular harmony and arranging techniques, including contemporary chord symbols and terminology, and basic voicing for brass, reed, and rhythm sections.
An intermediate course in jazz/popular harmony and arranging techniques, including more advanced harmonic techniques. Writing for strings, woodwinds, and electronic instruments is introduced.
Private composition instruction for composition majors. MTC 412 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 313.
Advanced composition involving major projects in a contemporary idiom. MTC 413 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 412.
Advanced composition lessons for theory/composition majors. MTC 418 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 413.
This course is the first in a two-semester sequence, the second semester of which culminates in the presentation of a capstone project in studio composition. This project is a large-scale work created in consultation with the studio professor, and may be in live, recorded audio, music-to-video, music-to-game, or other format arranged in agreement between student and instructor. Students in this course will meet weekly for a half-hour in-office lesson, arrange by appointment with the professor. MTC 470 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 270. Satisfaction of the composition requirement of MTC 271, MTC 274, and MTC 275.
This course is the second in a two-semester sequence, culminating in the presentation of a capstone project in studio composition. This project is a large-scale work created in consultation with the studio professor, and may be in live, recorded audio, music-to-video, music-to-game, or other format arranged in agreement between student and instructor. Students in this course will meet weekly for a half-hour in-office lesson, arranged by appointment with the professor. Four times during the semester (or as determined by the instructor), students will meet as a group instead of in an individual lesson for that week fo seminar-style discussion and presentation. MTC 471 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 470.
An internship in the music industry intended as a capstone experience. Internships may take place in the fields of music products retail and wholesale, arts management, marketing, promotions, recording, live sound, venue operations, sound design, and/or audio production. Students are encouraged to make contact with potential internship programs well before their internship semester. MTC 472 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 270. Satisfaction of the composition requirement of 200-level courses MTC 271, MTC 274, and MTC 275. Minimum 2.5 GPA. A resume, and a letter of intent identifying specific details about the internship. Repeatable for credit.
Special topics seminar designed to meet specific needs of undergraduate music majors. Repeatable for credit.
Contact department for more information about this course. Repeatable for credit. 452
s Independent Study Repeatable for credit.
Private instruction and preparation of music theory senior thesis.
Private instruction and further preparation of music theory senior thesis.
Private composition instruction and preparation for senior composition recital.
Private composition instruction and further preparation for senior composition recital.
This course provides a comprehensive review of undergraduate-level music theory, designed for graduate students who need to strengthen their theoretical foundation based on performance on the Graduate Assessment Test in Music Theory. Topics include diatonic and chromatic harmony, Roman numeral analysis and figured bass analysis, non-chord tones and harmonic function, modulation and tonicization, voice leading and part writing, and form.
Supportive Elective 3 Credits 9
Individual lessons in free composition. Participation in weekly composition seminar. Student and assigned instructor design a project (or two) relating to student's needs and interests. Students participate in seminar and in a final composition concert at the end of the semester. Students are asked to perform and/or coordinate performance/reading of project for faculty and peers. MTC 513 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 512.
Individual lessons in free composition. Participation in weekly composition seminar. Student and assigned instructor design a project (or two) relating to student's needs and interests. Students participate in seminar and in a final composition concert at the end of the semester. Students are asked to perform and/or coordinate performance/reading of project for faculty and peers. MTC 514 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 513.
Materials and techniques of electronic music and their use in composition. Laboratory experience in the composition of electronic music. 229
Foundational concepts of music theory, perception, technology, and composition through basic coding in ChucK (an open-sourced, cross-platform audio processing language) with the goal of implementing this technology in the classroom. MTC 518 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 501; or a placement exam. Distance education offering may be available.
Original composition or arrangement for orchestra.
This course presents an overview of major trends in music analysis including formal analysis, motivic analysis, Roman numeral analysis, set theory, Schenkerian analysis, reductive techniques, theories of music perception, and theories of rhythm and meter. Music examined includes that of the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, as well as early music. atonality, jazz, Broadway, and popular music. Primary goals of the course are to develop students' abilities to read music analyses critically and to develop and improve scholarly prose. MTC 542 Prerequisite: Successful completion of MTC 591; or a passing score on the Graduate Assessment Test in Music Theory. Distance education offering may be available.
Supportive Elective 3 Credits 6
A detailed understanding of the polyphonic textures of renaissance sacred music and how characteristic practices have distinguished genre and shaped western musical values.
This class is a compositional and analytical style study of 18th century counterpoint. We will cover dissonance treatment, imitation, invertible counterpoint, figured bass, and several genres including chorale prelude, invention, canon, and fugue. We will also study rhetoric, contrapuntal schemata, and partimento.
Jazz/popular harmony and arranging techniques, including contemporary chord symbols and terminology, and basic voicing for brass, reed and rhythm sections.
Special topics seminar designed to meet specific needs of music majors in the area of theory research.
2026-2027 CATALOG - GRADUATE
Transfer Credits
Individual research under the guidance of a faculty member. Repeatable for credit.
Individual research under the guidance of a faculty member. Repeatable for credit.
Individual research under the guidance of a faculty member.
Contact department for more information about this course.
Private instruction, for graduate majors in composition only. 230
Source: West Chester University of Pennsylvania's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
