95 courses with the subject MUSC, 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.
MUSC 0990Recital Attendance0
A course to broaden the music majors vision of performance: staging, interpretation, execution and removing barrier between performer and audience. Major attend departmental recitals and concerts.
Introduction to Music explores three concepts: 1) The fundamental elements of music; 2) how to listen to music, and 3) the great music of western civilization from the Age of Antiquity through the Popular styles of the present era. The music explored includes the classics, jazz, popular genres, and some non-western compositions.
Instruction in basic songwriting skills including song forms, melody, chords, lyrics and basic arranging. Students will write an original song. They will also discuss the nature of creativity and the creative process and will analyze existing songs from popular culture and their own songs in light of aesthetic principles and their potential impact on or reflection of cultural trends.
Continued instruction in basic songwriting skills building on those skills learned in Songwriting I. Students will write several songs in a workshop setting during the course of the semester.
MUSC 1050 w/C grade or better or instructor approval Semesters Offered: Spring & Summer
MUSC 1080World Music (AR)3
An introductory survey of music from around the world. Students acquire basic knowledge of and experience a diverse set of musical expression and cultural traditions. They learn to write critically, comparatively and analytically about music as an aspect of culture. Highlights the important role of music as a means of expression grounded in religious, political, social, and cultural identity.
Entrance exam score of 70% or better, completion of MUSC 1100 with a C grade or better, or instructor approval.
Corequisite
MUSC 1130 Semesters Offered: Fall & Spring
MUSC 1120Music Theory II3
2nd semester of a 4-semester series. Topics to be covered: phrase structure, period forms, non-chord tones, diatonic seventh chords, and secondary dominant and leading-tone chords.
MUSC 1140 for Music majors Semesters Offered: Spring & Summer
MUSC 1130Sight Singing/Ear Training I1
First semester of a four-semester series. Development of aural skills, including sight singing and dictation of rhythms, melodies, and harmonic progressions.
MUSC 1120 (may be taken concurrently) and MUSC 1130 , both w/C grade or better Semesters Offered: Spring & Summer Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 1150Group Piano I1
First semester of beginning piano instruction in a group setting for both music majors and non-majors. This course and Group Piano II help students acquire the skills required to pass the piano skills exam that is required for the AS Music, AAS Media Music and AAS Music Recording Technology degrees. It is recommended that students take MUSC 1110 or MUSC 1100 in the same semester as this course.
Second semester of piano instruction in a group setting for both music majors and non-majors. Students successfully completing this course should have the skills necessary to pass the piano skills exam that is required for the AS Music, AAS Media Music and AAS Music Recording Technology degrees. It is recommended that students take MUSC 1110 or MUSC 1120 in the same semester as this course.
MUSC 1150 with a C grade or better or instructor approval. Semesters Offered: Fall & Spring
MUSC 1200Introduction to the Music Industry1
This course gives a fundamental overview of the workings of the music industry and encourages students to use entrepreneurial thinking to seek opportunities in this rapidly changing business.
Basic financial information for creative professionals or students interested in freelance work or setting up a studio. This course is useful for artists working in the areas of fine art, the many forms of design, photography, film/video, music, advertising, the performing arts and creative or technical writing.
A large four-part select ensemble that specializes in large choral/orchestral works by major composers. Participation in Concert Choir meets the ensemble requirements for a music degree and may be repeated for credit.
SLCC Singers is a select SATB chamber choir. It performs music from all stylistic periods of the Western Tradition as well as music from non-Western musical traditions. In addition to their local performances, SLCC Singers may represent SLCC in regional, national and international concerts and festivals.
Placement audition or Instructor approval. Semesters Offered: Fall & Spring
MUSC 1390South City Jazz Vocal Ensemble1
This choir is a highly select ensemble that specializes in contemporary music. Students engage in tight jazz harmonies, rhythms and improvisation. May be repeated for credit.
Placement audition or Instructor approval. Semesters Offered: Fall & Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 1460Symphony Orchestra1
Symphony Orchestra is for concert strings, woodwind, and percussion students who perform a wide range of styles from the symphony orchestra repertoire.
Chamber Orchestra is for concert strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion students who perform a wide variety of music from the rich literature of chamber music.
Student bands are organized to perform contemporary music such as pop, rock, country, jazz, EDM, hip hop, and other popular genre. Students that sing, play bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, brass, woodwinds, or percussion, popular strings like fiddle, and music electronics are welcome to join. Do you want to be in a band? Join us. It is recommended students can play an instrument or sing prior to taking this course.
Audition Semesters Offered: Fall & Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 1490Studio Ensemble1
The Studio Ensemble is a performance ensemble with flexible instrumentation, organized to perform and record contemporary and classical instrumental music. The ensemble performs live concerts and records instrumental music from a variety of genres and for a variety of purposes, including live and streamed concerts, and underscore for film, video games, theatrical productions.
The Electroacoustic Ensemble is a performance ensemble with flexible instrumentation, organized to perform and record music that makes use of music technology tools such as laptops, tablets, smartphones, synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines. The ensemble can also integrate traditional acoustic instruments (piano, violin, trumpet, etc.). The musical styles the ensemble perform are outside of the mainstream.
MUSC 1515 AND Audition (Instructor Approval) Semesters Offered: Fall & Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 1515Basic Audio Production3
A broad overview of sound, sound systems, recording, and live sound reinforcement providing basic training in the physics of sound and the hardware and systems used to control and record it.
MUSC 1520Music Composition I (Introduction to Electronic Music Composition)3
Introduction to electronic instruments, including synthesis and sampling: digital communication between electrical musical devices (MIDI); basic principles of music comp. and performance for electronic instruments and computer-based arranging.
MUSC 1515 or instructor approval Semesters Offered: Fall & Spring
MUSC 1540Music Composition II3
Continued instruction in music composition with a focus on composing for acoustic instruments. The course introduces students to concepts of orchestration, writing for a variety of instruments and using MIDI/Electronic Instruments to mimic the sound of acoustic instruments.
MUSC 1520 or instructor approval Semesters Offered: Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 1550Musical Acoustics3
Basic instruction in musical acoustics beginning with a foundation in the physics of sound waves, sound measurement, and the human ear. Students will learn how different instruments create musical sounds and fundamental aspects of room acoustics and sound reproduction. They will also learn how these principles affect human perception of musical experiences. It is recommended students possess math proficiency in algebra and geometry prior to taking this course.
Music Mixing Techniques is designed to teach intermediate to advanced concepts in editing and mixing of digital multitrack audio. Students will be given the opportunity to work in a commercial style recording facility and learn to use equipment and methods that are consistent with current recording industry practices.
MUSC 1515 , COMM 1515 , FLM 1515 , or THEA 1515 Semesters Offered: Fall & Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 1610Group Guitar I2
Beginning guitar in a group setting. Includes basic chords in open position, strumming, finger style accompaniment patterns, standard notation, transposition and construction of chord progressions.
Music theory for guitar. Includes scales, intervals, triads and seventh chord relationships, non-harmonic tones, phrase structures, cadences, secondary dominate and modulations. Popular and classic styles. Click here for searchable class schedule
Introduction to teaching music as a profession that includes school-based observation. This course includes multiple teaching practica through which students will teach music lessons within the class and observe music lessons in the local community.
Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 4 Literature at a minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 1740Private Lessons: Brass1
12 one-half hour private music lessons for non-music majors on brass instruments: trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium or tuba. Additional fee is required.
12 one-half hour private music lessons for music majors on brass instruments: trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium or tuba. Additional fee is required.
Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 4 Literature at a minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 1745Private Lessons: Brass2
12, 45 minute private music lessons for music performance majors on brass instruments: trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium or tuba. Additional fee is required.
12 one-half hour private music lessons for music majors on woodwind instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone. Additional fee is required.
Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 4 Literature at a minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 1765Private Lessons: Woodwinds2
12, 45 minute private music lessons for music performance majors on woodwind instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone. Additional fee is required.
Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 4 Literature at a minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 1770Private Lessons: Percussion1
12 one-half hour private music lessons for non-music majors on percussion instruments: drums, set, xylophone, marimba, timpani, and percussion. Additional fee is required.
12 one-half hour private music lessons for music majors on percussion instruments: drums, set, xylophone, marimba, timpani, and percussion. Additional fee is required.
Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 4 Literature at a minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 1775Private Lessons: Percussion2
12, 45 minute private music lessons for music performance majors on percussion instruments: drums, set, xylophone, marimba, timpani, and percussion, Additional fee is required.
MUSC 2130 for music majors Semesters Offered: Fall
MUSC 2120Music Theory IV3
4th semester of a 4-semester series. Material to be covered: advanced chromatic harmony, impressionism and 20th century theory including set theory, serialism, etc.
MUSC 2120 or concurrently, and MUSC 2130 (both w/C grade or better) Semesters Offered: Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2200Artist Promotion and Management3
In-depth instruction in the skills, activities, and knowledge necessary to promote and build careers as performing artists in the music industry. Students will use hands-on experience to explore successful strategies for approaching planning, booking, recording, releasing, and promoting music products and performances.
MUSC 1200 w/ C grade or better or instructor approval Semesters Offered: Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2350Conducting Fundamentals2
The fundamentals of conducting music, including beat patterns, baton technique, score reading, cuing, subdivisions, fermatas and releases. The class will function as an ensemble and each student will conduct the group.
MUSC 1060 w/C grade or better, MUSC 1530 or MUSC 1540 or instructor approval Semesters Offered: All Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2510Music Composition for Games and Interactive Media3
Instruction and practice in composing music for use in video games and interactive multimedia applications. Students will study existing games and media to learn how music can be effectively used. They will also experience the process of creating and preparing music for a variety of uses in the field.
MUSC 1520 or MUSC 1110 w/C grade or better; or instructor approval Semesters Offered: Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2520Music Scoring For Film2
Instruction and practice in composing music for use as underscore in film. Students will examine the scores of historical and present-day films to learn different approaches to film scoring and the different roles music can play in film, will learn about the process of creating music for film from the spotting session through the final audio mix and will compose and record their own underscores.
MUSC 1520 or MUSC 1110 w/C grade or better, or instructor approval Semesters Offered: Fall Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2530Jingles and Music for Commercials2
Instruction in the basic composing, arranging, and techniques required to score commercials and jingles. Because of the changing world of advertising, this also includes the musical techniques required to score Infomercials, Theatrical Trailer Music, and Made-for-the-Internet Video Programs as well as instruction in the Business of Commercials.
MUSC 1050, 1520 or MUSC 1110 with a C grade or better or instructor approval Semesters Offered: Fall Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2540Sampling, Synthesis & Sound Design2
An in-depth overview of sound production and sound design for recorded and live musical performance from acoustic instruments to analog and digital synthesis and sampling.
MUSC 1520 w/C grade or better, or instructor permission Semesters Offered: Fall Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2550Music Internship1-3
The Music Internship is an opportunity for students to gain college credit for participating in an internship with a professional recording studio or related business such as an audio post facility or pro-audio dealer under the guidance of an SLCC faculty member in the Fine Arts.
Instructor approval and second year status in the Music Recording Technology or Media Music programs Semesters Offered: All Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2570Game Audio Design3
This course introduces students to the field of sound design for games and interactive media. Students will develop skills in creation of game audio assets and in the use of middle-ware programs used in the video game industry for the implementation of assets within the game environment.
MUSC 1515 Semesters Offered: Spring Click here for searchable class schedule
MUSC 2580Audio Production and Mixing for Live Performance3
Entry-level positions in audio are often in the live sound field. This course provides training specific to live sound and performance audio. Subjects include sound system design and implementation, mixing live sound, sound system maintenance, digital audio consoles, distribution over audio networks (Dante or AVB), pre-recorded audio for live playback using Q-lab, or SCS. It is recommended students complete MUSC 1530 and MUSC 1560 prior to taking this course.
MUSC 1515 or instructor approval. Students must achieve a grade of C+ or better in the
MUSC 2700Sophomore Recital1
This course is designed for students to develop their performance skills through a structured recital format. Students will prepare and present a public performance, honing their artistic expression and technical proficiency.
Successful completion of at least one semester from among the following second-year private applied instruction courses: MUSC 2715, MUSC 2725, MUSC 2735, MUSC 2745, MUSC 2755, MUSC 2765, or MUSC 2775 AND Instructor approval. The instructor will assure that each student is concurrently registering for an additional semester of private applied instruction before giving approval to join this class. Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 2710Private Lessons: Guitar1
12 one-half hour private music lessons for non-music majors on fretted string instruments; guitar, bass. Additional fee is required.
MUSC 1735 and Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 5 Literature at minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 2740Private Lessons: Brass1
12, one-half hour private music lessons for non-music majors on brass instruments: trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium or tuba. Additional fee is required.
12, one-half hour private music lessons for music majors on brass instruments: trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium or tuba. Additional fee is required.
MUSC 1742 and Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 5 Literature at minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 2745Private Lessons: Brass2
12, 45 minute private music lessons for music performance majors on brass instruments: trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium or tuba. Additional fee is required.
12, one-half hour private music lessons for music majors on woodwind instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone. Additional fee is required.
MUSC 1762 and Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 5 Literature at minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 2765Private Lessons: Winds2
12, 45 minute private music lessons for music performance majors on woodwind instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone. Additional fee is required.
12, one-half hour private music lessons for music majors on percussion instruments: drums, set, xylophone, marimba, timpani and percussion. Additional fee is required.
MUSC 1772 and Audition (Must be able to perform NYSSMA Grade 5 Literature at minimum) Semesters Offered: All
MUSC 2775Private Lessons: Percussion2
12, 45 minute private music lessons for music performance majors on percussion instruments: drums, set, xylophone, marimba, timpani and percussion. Additional fee is required.
