167 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 1006Concert Attendance I0
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Credits: 0 This course provides students with the opportunity to watch other students, faculty and visiting artists in concert performance. Students learn elements of technique, stage deportment and stylistic interpretation by watching other performers. This course meets the concert attendance requirement of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) and is required concert attendance for all music majors. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 General Ed Requirement: Fine Arts A general appreciation course designed to make music meaningful to the average listener. The relationship of rhythm, melody, harmony, and form will be demonstrated though selected recordings. The elements of music will be treated non-technically together with historical and biographical observations. Western art music will be discussed as well popular styles and music of other world cultures.
MUSC 1030Introduction to Jazz and American Pop FA3
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 General Ed Requirement: Fine Arts This course is a general music appreciation class designed to empower music listeners by giving them an understanding of American jazz and popular music. Students will develop analytical and listening skills that help them to identify and be able to seek and write about jazz and popular music styles.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 General Ed Requirement: Fine Arts This course provides students with an overview of the history of rock and roll music from its roots to the present day. Emphasis is placed on major stylistic trends and the artists who made major contributions to the evolution of this musical genre. Rock music will also be studied in a sociological context- both as an influence on, and as a reflection of the society in which it has operated. Fundamental musical concepts and vocabulary will also be addressed.
Lecture hours: 4 This course provides choral ensemble training in a variety of serious literature written for smaller vocal choirs. Students enrolling in this course are expected to participate in major music events within the department. Enrollment is by audition. This course is repeatable for credit.
Lecture hours: 2 Class Piano Fundamentals introduces music major students to beginning piano skills prior to starting the four-semester, Class Piano sequence (I-IV). All music majors must take a piano assessment placement test prior to enrolling in any section of Class Piano. Students will be placed in the appropriate semester of Class Piano after completing the initial assessment. (Additional fee required) Repeatable for Credit
Lecture hours: 2 This course is an introduction to the study and performance of vocal music. It is designed for the beginning to the intermediate singer who desires to learn more about vocal music, including technique, diction, and performance practices. Snow College Catalog 2026-2027 115
Lecture hours: 1 to 3 This course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course includes the study of the rudimentary materials of music: scales, intervals, keys, rhythms, meters, and terminology for both visual and aural perception. It is designed for non-music majors, elementary education majors, and music majors desiring further foundational understanding prior to enrolling in the music theory sequence.
Lab hours: 2 This course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course includes the study of the fundamental elements of music. Content will focus on part writing, composition, and analysis. This course is required of all music-majors and minors and is recommended for serious students of voice, piano or other instruments. This course must be taken in sequence. During the first week of class, a placement exam will be administered where a score of 70% or better must be achieved or the student will be placed in MUSC 1100. If students receive a score of 5 or higher on their high school Advanced Placement (AP) Music Theory exam, they may choose to waive this course.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 to 2 Students will perform concert band music selected by the instructor with technical accuracy and expressive musicality. Membership is open without audition. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course is a continuation of the music theory series for the study of the fundamental elements of music. Content will focus on part writing, composition, improvisation and analysis. It is required of all music-major and minors and is recommended for serious students of voice, piano, or other instruments.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course involves preparation for and participation in Pep Band ensemble performances supporting Snow College athletic events. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course is required for music majors. Students develop and improve the ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms as dictated, identify and notate chordal harmonies as dictated, improve keyboard skills and improvise music. This course must be taken in sequence.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course includes a study of serious wind ensemble literature. Concerts are performed each semester as part of the course. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to th ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. An audition is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Spring, Summer Lecture hours: 2 This course is required for Bachelor of Music majors. Students develop and improve the ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms as dictated, identify and notate chordal harmonies as dictated, improve keyboard skills and improvise music. This course must be taken in sequence.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 Jazz Ensemble is a standard jazz big band. The jazz ensemble will perform literature inclusive of all jazz styles. This ensemble will provide s students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This is a music major course designed to help students meet the music major piano proficiency requirement. It introduces students to basic piano skills. This course also introduces the concept of musical improvisation. All music majors must take a piano assessment prior to enrolling in Class Piano. Students will be placed in the appropriate level of the course after completing the initial assessment. Additional fee required.
Typically Offered: Fall Lab hours: 3 The Community Chorus prepares and performs choral masterworks, including the annual Snow College production of Handel's Messiah, along with additional concerts during the year. Repeatable for credit.
Lab hours: 2 This is a music major course designed to help students meet the music major piano proficiency requirement. It builds upon the basic skills taught in Class Piano I. All music majors must take a piano assessment prior to e enrolling in Class Piano. Students will be placed in the appropriate level after completing the initial assessment. Additional fee required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course will provide group training in a variety of choral music literature. Those registering are expected to participate in departmental performances. This choir is open to all students without audition. Repeatable for credit. Additional fee required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course provides training and practical playing experience for chamber music groups. It is designed for capable string and piano players. Students will learn string and piano literature including quartets, trios, sonatas, etc. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 In this course students participate in a group ensemble experience on brass instruments. It is designed for beginning to intermediate level brass players. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course is an introduction to computers and their use in music. Students are introduced to Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) delving into audio editing, MIDI production, and loop production. This course also covers computer basics (navigating and file management).
Lab hours: 2 This course allows students to participate in chamber ensemble groups for woodwind players. It is available to both music and non-music majors. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 to 3 This course provides group training in a variety of serious literature written for smaller vocal ensembles. Students enrolling in this course are expected to participate in major music events within the department. The group is auditioned from the student body. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides an ensemble experience on a variety of percussion instruments. Students will learn the standard percussion ensemble literature from the contemporary era. In addition, students will be taught correct sticking and hand techniques on a variety of percussion instruments. This course is open to all percussionists. Repeatable for credit.
Lab hours: 2 Chamber ensemble groups for jazz musicians. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. May be repeated for credit.
Lab hours: 2 This course is the first in a sequence of two courses designed to teach music education majors the fundamentals of how to play and teach brass instruments. It is taught every other year, alternating with MUSC 1840 and 1850. This course and its follow-up, MUSC 1490, are required for instrumental music education majors. Vocal music education majors are required to take only one semester and may enroll in either MUSC 1480 or
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course is the second semester of a two course sequence that teaches music education majors the fundamentals of playing and teaching brass instruments. This course is required for instrumental music education majors. All four-year instrumental music education programs require a full-year of this course or its equivalent. Similar courses are taught at other Utah colleges that offer degrees in music education.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual guitar instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12, 50-minute lessons each week of the semester. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. The course promotes synthesis of various types of musical knowledge. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides group instruction in the fundamentals of guitar. Students will learn basic chords, strumming and fingerpicking patterns, standard notation and tablature (Additional fee required). Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: .5 to 1 Lab hours: 1 to 2 This course provides students with individual piano instruction and is repeatable one time for credit. This course develops a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills while increasing his/her understanding of the history and repertory of the piano. The course is open to all music students hoping to focus primarily on piano technique. (Additional course fee required.)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Other hours: 1 This course provides students with individual piano instruction. It helps develop a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the piano. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute lessons during the semester. Students will play in both a mid-semester Recital (one piece) and a Jury. Refer to the “Snow College Horne School of Music Piano Area General Policies” for specific Jury repertoire guidelines. The jury is required for music majors at the end of the semester. Non-majors have the option of performing in the jury but it is not required. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable fo credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual organ instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required.
Lecture hours: 2 This course provides students with individual vocal instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 one-hour lessons during the course of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops a students technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual woodwind instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute lessons during the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. The jury accounts for 20% of the grade for the course. An additional fee is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual brass instruction. Private instruction is required for music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute private lessons. This course develops a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical, and improvisational skills. Students also learn about their instrument in the context of history and repertoire. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring r Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual percussion instruction. Private Instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12, 50-minute lessons during the course of the semester. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course is an introduction to teaching music as a profession. It includes on site observations of public school music programs.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course provides individual musical instruction. Private instruction is required of all music majors each semester. Music performance majors are required to take 60-minute lessons each week. All students are also required to participate in regular master classes, recitals and juries which fulfill the lab portion of the course. The course is also available to non- music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and performance skills. An additional fee is required.
Lecture hours: 2 This course teaches the fundamentals of playing and teaching flute and double reed instruments in the woodwind family. This is a required course for music education majors.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course teaches the fundamentals of playing and teaching the single reed instruments of the woodwind family. It is optional, but strongly encouraged, as it satisfies the instrumental music education major's requirements at most four-year institutions.
Lab hours: 2 This course teaches students the fundamentals of playing all of the instruments in the percussion family. It will be taught every other year, alternating with MUSC 1700. It is optional but strongly encouraged, as it satisfies the instrumental music education major's similar requirements at transfer institutions.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 2 This course focuses on learning the fundamental skills necessary to play the string instruments (violin, viola, cello, and string bass), and th skills necessary to teach those fundamentals to others. Required for instrumental music majors.
Lecture hours: 2 Building on skills acquired in the prerequisite course, MUSC 1840, this course focuses on more advanced playing techniques of stringed instruments including violin, viola, cello, and string bass. This course is required for instrumental music education majors.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: .5 Lab hours: 1 This course provides individual musical instruction in jazz at the beginning level. This course augments but does not replace private study on the major instrument, and can not be taken in the place of private lessons. All students taking this course are also required to participate in regular master classes, recitals and juries. The course is also available to non-music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and performance skills. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students the opportunity to explore careers in music. The course is project-based; students will propose and complete projects designed to show their research into areas of occupational interest to them, and present these research projects to class members. This course transfers as music elective credit to 4-year schools.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course includes staging and performances of arias and short scenes from operas, operettas, and musical theater. It is intended for vocal music performance majors, as well as those wishing for an advanced experience in vocal literature. (Repeatable for Credit) Snow College Catalog 2026-2027 119
Credits: 0 Lab hours: 1 This course provides students with the opportunity to watch other students, faculty and visiting artists in concert performance. Students learn elements of technique, stage deportment and stylistic interpretation by watching other performers. This course meets the concert attendance requirement of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) and is required concert attendance for all music majors.
Lecture hours: 1 to 4 e This course provides choral ensemble training in a variety of serious literature written for smaller vocal choirs. Students enrolling in this course are expected to participate in major music events within the department. Enrollment is by audition. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course is primarily a performance class in which the students learn how to perform and gain insights into musical works through performing experiences. Piano-related topics will be presented through lectures and discussions. This course is required for all piano majors. Piano minors are encourages to take it. May be repeated for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 to 3 This course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 3 This course is a continuation of the music theory series. It includes the study of chromatic harmony, composition, improvisation and analysis.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 to 2 Students will perform concert band music selected by the instructor with technical accuracy and expressive musicality. Membership is open without audition. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course is a continuation of the music theory series, including further elements of the harmonic vocabulary, tonal harmony in the late nineteenth century, an introduction to post-tonal music, and new directions in music.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course involves preparation for and participation in Pep Band ensemble performances supporting Snow College athletic events. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 2 This course is required for Bachelor of Music majors. Students develop and improve the ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms as dictated, identify and notate chordal harmonies as dictated, improve keyboard skills and improvise music. This course must be taken in sequence.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course includes a study of serious wind ensemble literature. Concerts are performed each semester as part of the course. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to th ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. An audition is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course is required for Bachelor of Music majors. Students develop and improve the ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms as dictated, identify and notate chordal harmonies as dictated, improve keyboard skills and improvise music. This course must be taken in sequence.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 Jazz Ensemble is a standard jazz big band. The jazz ensemble will perform literature inclusive of all jazz styles. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 1 This is a music major course designed to help students meet the piano proficiency requirement. It teaches the fundamentals of piano playing at an intermediate level. This course will help cultivate familiarity and fluency with intermediate level piano techniques, rhythms, music notation, and intermediate performance pieces. Additional fee required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 The Community Chorus prepares and performs choral masterworks, including the annual Snow College production of Handel's Messiah, along with additional concerts during the year. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Spring Lab hours: 1 This course completes the Class Piano sequence for music majors and culminates with the piano proficiency exam. This course also reinforces basic concepts of musical improvisation. Additional fee required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring e Lecture hours: 1 to 3 This course will provide group training in a variety of choral music literature. Those registering are expected to participate in departmental performances. This choir is open to all students without audition. Repeatable for credit. Additional fee required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course provides training and practical playing experience for chamber music groups. It is designed for capable string and piano players. Students will learn string and piano literature including quartets, trios, sonatas, etc. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 1 In this course students participate in a group ensemble experience on brass instruments. It is designed for intermediate level brass players. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course allows students to participate in chamber ensemble groups for woodwind players. It is available to both music and non-music majors. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 to 3 This course provides group training in a variety of serious literature written for smaller vocal ensembles. Students enrolling in this course are expected to participate in major music events within the department. The group is auditioned from the student body. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 1 This course provides an ensemble experience on a variety of percussion instruments. This course is open to all percussionists. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 The fundamentals of baton technique are addressed, as well as the basics of score preparation. Students will be introduced to the application of theoretical formal and historical knowledge to the process of conducting and musical problem solving. Snow College Catalog 2026-2027 121
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 Chamber ensemble groups for jazz musicians. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Registration by permission of instructor. Audition required. May be repeated for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual guitar instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12, 50-minute lessons each week of the semester. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. The course promotes synthesis of various types of musical knowledge. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 1000 level private instruction in order to register for 2000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 1 This course provides students with instruction in the fundamentals of guitar beyond the beginner level. Students will learn to construct basic chords, and focus on strumming and fingerpicking patterns. Students will be expected to learn both standard notation and tablature. Course fee.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Other hours: 1 This course provides students with individual piano instruction. It helps develop a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the piano. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute lessons during the semester. Students will play in both a mid-semester Recital (one piece) and a Jury. Refer to the “Snow College Horne School of Music Piano Area General Policies” for specific Jury repertoire guidelines. The jury is required for music majors at the end of the semester. Non-majors have the option of performing in the jury but it is not required. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 1000 level private instruction in order to register for 2000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual organ instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual vocal instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 one-hour lessons during the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops a students technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 Private Woodwind II continues the instruction received in Private Woodwind I. Students receive individualized instruction in how to play the woodwind instruments. Students will develop proper technique and perform appropriate literature. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual brass instruction. Private instruction is required for music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute private lessons. This course develops a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical, and improvisational skills. Students also learn about their instrument in the context of history and repertoire. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 1000 level private instruction in order to register for 2000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual percussion instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12, 50-minute lessons during the course of the semester. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 1000 level private instruction in order to register for 2000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course provides individual musical instruction at an intermediate to advanced level. Private instruction is required of all music majors each semester. Music performance majors are required to take 60- minute lessons each week. Students may also be expected to participate in masterclasses and studio classes. The course is also available, by instructor's permission, to non-music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and performance skills. An additional fee is required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: .5 Lab hours: 1 This course provides individual musical instruction in jazz at the beginning to intermediate level. This course augments but does not replace private study on the major instrument and cannot be taken in the place of private lessons. All students taking this course are also required to participate in regular master classes, recitals and juries which fulfill the lab portion of the course. The course is also available to non-music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and performance skills. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Lecture hours: 3 This course is a survey of the history of Jazz and American Popular Music from the 19th Century to the present day, including Jazz, Country, Blues, R&B and American Popular song. Students will further develop listening skills that help them identify and intelligently talk about jazz styles.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 4 This course provides choral ensemble training in a variety of serious literature written for smaller vocal choirs. Students enrolling in this course are expected to participate in major music events within the department. Enrollment is by audition. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This class develops Musical Theater craft through class exercises, improvisation, rehearsal, performance, and various methods of character analysis and scene analysis. Students will stretch their ability to live in a play’s given circumstances and to handle text and rehearsal work. Students will synthesize movement and voice work, and apply a firm understanding of acting concepts and terminology. This class may involve an end of semester performance. Class is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 to 3 This course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course involves preparation for and participation in Pep Band ensemble performances supporting Snow College athletic events. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course includes a study of serious wind ensemble literature. Concerts are performed each semester as part of the course. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. An audition is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 Jazz Ensemble is a standard jazz big band. The jazz ensemble will perform literature inclusive of all jazz styles. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. Repeatable for credit. Snow College Catalog 2026-2027 123
Lecture hours: 3 This course is designed to teach those pursuing a bachelor's degree in vocal performance how to sing and how to teach others to sing using correct principles and techniques. It is open to all who have been admitted to the Bachelor's of Music Program, but is also required for students on the music education advisement track, and those for whom voice is their primary instrument.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course focuses on fundamental principles and specific techniques of music teaching. Students will reinforce, acquire and apply principles, techniques, methods, and philosophies of instrumental music performance. Required for instrumental performance majors. Class discussions will include approaches to assist students to understanding teaching practices with respect to all performers and listeners. All classes will be designed to promote respect, social awareness and cooperation between all participants.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 to 3 This course will provide group training in a variety of choral music literature. Those registering are expected to participate in departmental performances. This choir is open to all students without audition. Repeatable for credit. Additional fee required.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course teaches best practice methods for teaching music in K-6 schools. The curriculum focuses on outcomes delineated in the National Standards for Music Education, and the Utah State Board of Education Standards for Music Education. This course is required for students completing the Snow College/Weber State University music education licensure program.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course provides training and practical playing experience for chamber music groups. It is designed for capable string and piano players. Students will learn string and piano literature including quartets, trios, sonatas, etc. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 In this course students participate in a group ensemble experience on brass instruments. It is designed for intermediate to advanced brass players. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course allows students to participate in chamber ensemble groups for woodwind players. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course provides group training in a variety of serious literature written for smaller vocal ensembles. Students enrolling in this course are expected to participate in major music events within the department. The group is auditioned from the student body. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course is an elective in the Bachelor of Music degree in Commercial Music. It is designed to give vocalists the opportunity to learn about a wide variety of vocal techniques, including contemporary commercial music, blues, jazz, country and rock styles. It will focus on the technique, expression and physiology of these styles. with a minimum grade of C
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 2 This course is designed to teach musicians the basics of jazz improvisation, especially with regards to the performance and understanding of historical jazz vocabulary, chord/scale relationships, rhythmic interaction within the ensemble, stylistic concepts of melodic interpretation, and the rhythmic interpretation of scales. Exercises will include performing required scales in a variety of rhythms, performing major and minor ii-V-I jazz vocabulary licks in all twelve keys, performing required jazz standards by memory, and transcribing and performing several historical jazz solos, both written out and memorized. This course is required for instrumental performance majors in the Bachelor of Music in Commercial Music degree program.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 2 This is the second course in a two-semester sequence. This course builds on concepts learned in Jazz Improvisation I. Students will develop their improvisation skills by exploring specific topics and strategies, including minor ii - V - i progressions, motivic use and development, specific tools for melodic embellishment, and advanced scale choices, including the diminished, altered and pentatonic scales. Repertoire choices include tunes with a faster harmonic rhythm, more advanced chord progressions, and songs from the Great American Songbook. Students will transcribe jazz solos by jazz masters representing the genres and styles discussed, and perform their transcriptions.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides an ensemble experience on a variety of percussion instruments. Available only to music majors who are pursuing the Bachelor of Music degree. Repeatable for credit.
Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course introduces audio/sound technology, and their connection to music, with emphasis on how computers support music creation, education, and production. Students build skills in music notation, Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), and educational software while gaining foundational knowledge of computer tools for multimedia and instruction. The course also covers material from AVID Pro Tools 101 and Sibelius 101, with optional exams toward User Certifications and Badges.
Typically Offered: Fall Lab hours: 1 This course focuses on the study of the fundamentals of sound and how it can be captured, manipulated and reproduced. It functions as an Audio Lab for MUSC 3350 Audio Fundamentals I to cover non-computer aspects of sound and recording. This course is the first of two laboratory courses and aspects of sound, acoustics, psychoacoustics, recording, audio processing, mixing and mastering.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course builds upon the foundations covered in MUSC 3350 Audio Fundamentals I, by developing more advanced skills in music notation programs and Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), as well as introducing other multimedia tools such as video editing and graphic design software. It is the second of two courses focused to help students develop knowledge and skills of computer hardware and software that assist in content creation, multimedia production, and music instruction. This course also includes content from the AVID Pro Tools 110 and AVID Sibelius 110 certification courses. Students can elect to take examinations for these course to complete Pro Tools and/or Sibelius User Certifications and Badges.
Typically Offered: Spring Lab hours: 1 This course focuses on the study of the fundamentals of sound and how it can be captured, manipulated, and reproduced. It functions as an Audio Lab for MUSC 3352 Audio Fundamentals II to cover non- computer aspects of sound and recording. This course is the second of two laboratory courses that cover aspects of sound, acoustics, psychoacoustics, recording, audio processing, mixing, and mastering.
Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic concepts and technology involved in designing, creating, implementing and delivering audio and effects for the gaming industry, including effects, dialog, music beds, creation, editing and preparation for delivery. This course is designed around and closely follows the ‘Pro Tools 130 Gaming for Audio’ course. Students can earn their Pro Tools for Game Audio User Certification and Badge by passing the Pro Tools 101 and Pro Tools 130 examinations.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 Chamber ensemble groups for jazz musicians. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical and improvisation skills, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to th ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. May be repeated for credit. Snow College Catalog 2026-2027 125
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 3 Music Form and Analysis is an upper division course designed to provide students with a comprehensive background in the major compositional forms of art music during the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary periods. The course is designed to aid students in the proper interpretation of musical lines and structures. An extensive focus will be placed on the study of musical scores and the development of aural skills in relation to these scores.
Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual guitar instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12, 50-minute lessons each week of the semester. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. The course promotes synthesis of various types of musical knowledge. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 2000 level private instruction in order to register for 3000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Lecture hours: 2 This course teaches the fundamentals of the songwriting process through an examination of various elements and approaches. It is required for all students who are completing the Bachelor of Music with Emphasis in Commercial Music degree.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course continues with the concepts learned in MUSC 3560 (Songwriting I), and introduces the concept of writing on demand (jingles, TV, film, event music, etc.) Students will also work on creating an individual songwriting "voice." This class is required for all students completing the songwriting/composition advisement track of the Bachelor of Music degree. e
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Other hours: 1 This course provides students with individual piano instruction. It helps develop a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the piano. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute lessons during the semester. Students will play in both a mid-semester Recital (one piece) and a Jury. Refer to the “Snow College Horne School of Music Piano Area General Policies” for specific Jury repertoire guidelines. The jury is required for music majors at the end of the semester. Non-majors have the option of performing in the jury but it is not required. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 2000 level private instruction in order to register for 3000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual organ instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual vocal instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. The course promotes synthesis various types of musical knowledge. A jury is required at the end of the semester. The jury accounts for 20% of the grade for the course. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 2000 level private instruction in order to register for 3000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: .5 or 1 This course provides students with individual woodwind instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical, and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/ voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 1000 level private instruction in order to register for 2000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 3 This is the first semester of a two semester sequence providing music majors with a foundational understanding in the history and development of Western art music. It will cover music throughout history and the relationship of music to the other arts. This course includes the chronological study of music during the Classical and Romantic periods.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 3 This is the second semester of a two semester sequence providing music majors with a foundational understanding in the history and development of Western art music. It will cover music throughout history and the relationship of music to the other arts. This course includes the chronological study of music in the Contemporary Period (Twentieth Century) and from Antiquity through the Baroque period. This is the continuation course to MUSC 3630.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual brass instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute lessons each semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops and improves technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical, improvisational skills and understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/ voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 2000 level private instruction in order to register for 3000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual percussion instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12, 50-minute lessons during the course of the semester. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 2000 level private instruction in order to register for 3000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides individual musical instruction at an advanced level. Private instruction is required of all music majors each semester. BM in Commercial music majors are required to take 50-minute lessons each week. All students are also required to participate in regular master classes, recitals and juries which fulfill the lab portion of the course. An additional fee is required. This course may be repeated for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 2 This course presents an overview of the technology and techniques used in the creation and production of audio synchronized with moving picture (video, film, and television). It includes a study of the history and technology of sound in film, elements of sound for video, and the various roles and uses of music with moving picture.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This ensemble provides students completing the Bachelor of Music in Commercial Music (BMCM) degree with an opportunity to synthesize skills learned in required courses, including music theory, commercial arranging, music technology, private lessons, and music business. The course is required once during the senior year for the BMCM program. This course provides individual musical instruction at an intermediate to advanced level. Private instruction is required for all music majors each semester. Music performance majors are required to take 12 50- minute lessons throughout the semester. All students will be required to a perform a jury at the end of the semester. Course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 2 Lab hours: 1 This course is a general overview and study of the business of making money from music. It covers the general aspects of the music industry including the major functional areas, governmental regulations, and revenue streams. It also presents a balanced focus towards discussing the practical career paths, common practices, and history of the music industry. Snow College Catalog 2026-2027 127
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: .5 Lab hours: 1 This course provides individual musical instruction in jazz at the intermediate to advanced level. This course augments but does not replace private study on the major instrument and cannot be taken in the place of private lessons. All students taking this course are also required to participate in regular master classes, recitals and juries which fulfill the lab portion of the course. The course is also available to non-music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and performance skills. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 2 This course includes staging and performances of arias and short scenes from operas, operettas, and musical theater, or the staging of a complete operatic work. It is intended for students in the vocal music advisement track, as well as those wishing for an advanced experience in vocal literature. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. May be repeated for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course provides choral ensemble training in a variety of serious literature written for smaller vocal choirs. Students enrolling in this course are expected to participate in major music events within the department. Enrollment is by audition. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 to 3 The course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course provides training and practical playing experience in a wide range of works for orchestra. Concerts and special programs are given throughout the year in which the students will be expected to participate. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Lecture hours: 3 This course builds on the skills learned in class piano to jazz and popular music. Assignments will focus on chording, improvised jazz accompaniment (comping), lead-sheet reading and other keyboard skills for popular and jazz music genres. This course gives students the opportunity to improve piano skills acquired during the proficiency process and prepares students to participate in jazz and commercial music ensembles, apply these skills in composition and arranging, and pass these skills on to future students.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course involves preparation for and participation in Pep Band ensemble performances supporting Snow College athletic events. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 2 This course focuses on the practical application of skills learned in Music Theory I-IV as they apply to creating musical arrangements. Assignments will cover topics that lead to the creation of a full arrangement for studio orchestra or jazz ensemble. Topics of study will include the ranges and of instruments and voices, arrangement planning and options, melodic paraphrase, harmonization of melody, approaches to various parts of an arrangement, writing for each section, and strategies for full band harmonization.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course includes a study of serious wind ensemble literature. Concerts are performed each semester as part of the course. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. An audition is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course includes a study of the characteristics of string woodwind, brass and percussion instruments and the process of orchestrating for those instruments and their application to contemporary music. Assignments will focus on the practical application of orchestration for popular and jazz music genres.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 Jazz Ensemble is a standard jazz big band. The jazz ensemble will perform literature inclusive of all jazz styles. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Audition required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This ensemble provides students completing the bachelor of music degree with an opportunity to synthesize skills learned in required courses, including music theory, commercial arranging, music technology, private lessons, & music business. The course is required once during the junior year and once during the senior year.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course focuses on the practical application of composition skills learned in Theory I-V to the area of commercial music. Additional topics will include the writing of music for TV/film and other visual media. Activities will include writing charts for class members and the performances of these works in class.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course is an advanced study of the science and art of both mixing and mastering audio; covering mixing for different regions and genres as well as the history and current trends and practices of both mixing and mastering.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course continues a study of audio production through more advanced production techniques and projects further enhancing student’s skills as songwriters, producers, and audio engineers.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course will provide group training in a variety of choral music literature. Those registering are expected to participate in major activities of the department. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit. Additional fee required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course provides training and practical playing experience for chamber music groups. It is designed for capable string and piano players. Students will learn string and piano literature including quartets, trios, sonatas, etc. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 In this course students participate in a group ensemble experience on brass instruments. It is designed for proficient upper division level brass players. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 2 This course allows students to participate in chamber ensemble groups for woodwind players. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit. Snow College Catalog 2026-2027 129
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course provides group training in a variety of serious literature written for smaller vocal ensembles. Students enrolling in this course are expected to participate in major music events within the department. The group is auditioned from the student body. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides an ensemble experience on a variety of percussion instruments. Available only to music majors who are pursuing the Bachelor of Music degree. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course continues with concepts introduced in Beginning Conducting. Students will learn more about scores, ranges and tonal colors of voices and instruments, and advanced baton and hand- conducting techniques. Assignments will include the conducting of Snow College ensembles. Students will learn to function as ensemble leaders and will also demonstrate and defend their musical decision-making, both individually and collaboration with other students. Students will have the opportunity to synthesize the theoretical, analytical, historical and cultural components of their coursework in the process of functioning as a leader in the music making process. This course continues with concepts introduced in Beginning Conducting. Students will learn more about scores, including transposition of instruments, ranges and tonal colors of voices and instruments, and advanced baton and hand- conducting techniques. Assignments will include the conducting of Snow College ensembles. Students will learn to function as ensemble leaders and will also demonstrate and defend their musical decision-making, both individually and collaboration with other students. Students will have the opportunity to synthesize the theoretical, analytical, historical and cultural components of their coursework in the process of functioning as a leader in the music making process.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course focuses on the techniques used in contemporary film scoring, including creation of realistic, electronically produced mockups of orchestral compositions. Students will make an in-depth study of sample-based virtual instruments and their manipulation through Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). Emphasis will be placed on achieving realism by controlling various MIDI parameters. They will also study the methods used to apply their orchestra mock-ups to film scoring.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 3 This course provides students with a rigorous introduction to selected musical traditions from various parts of the globe. Through the use of a comparative analytical framework, which includes perspectives from ethnomusicology, the cognitive sciences, and psychoacoustics, students will learn to critically analyze and appreciate the selected musical traditions. These traditions will be approached from within their own cultural contexts and viewed as a social process. Students will develop an understanding of what music is, what it means to its practitioners and audiences, and the means by which musical meaning is transmitted. Emphasis is placed on recognition and analysis of the salient musical characteristics of each tradition, the artists who made major contributions to those traditions, and the particular musical instruments that are iconic to each.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 Chamber ensemble groups for jazz musicians. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Registration by permission of instructor. Audition required. May be repeated for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course focuses on the study of advanced techniques involved in audio production that build on the concepts covered in Audio Fundamentals I and II. It is the first of two course that comprise the Production Track core. Audio Production I focuses on the recording (tracking or capturing) process, which includes the study of various tracking and microphone techniques involved in recording all types of instruments, ensembles, and situations.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual guitar instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12, 50-minute lessons each week of the semester. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as wel as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. The course promotes synthesis of various types of musical knowledge. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 3000 level private instruction in order to register for 4000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. Repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Other hours: 1 This course provides students with individual piano instruction. It helps develop a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the piano. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute lessons during the semester. Students will play in both a mid-semester Recital (one piece) and a Jury. Refer to the “Snow College Horne School of Music Piano Area General Policies” for specific Jury repertoire guidelines. The jury is required for music majors at the end of the semester. Non-majors have the option of performing in the jury but it is not required. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 3000 level private instruction in order to register for 4000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual organ instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 2 This course provides students with individual vocal instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. An additional fee is required.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: .5 or 1 Lab hours: 1 or 2 This course provides students with individual woodwind instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 one-hour lessons during the semester. l This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. The course promotes synthesis of various types of musical knowledge. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 3000 level private instruction in order to register for 4000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. The course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual brass instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute lessons each semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops and improves technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical, improvisational skills, and understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/ voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 3000 level private instruction in order to register for 4000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students with individual percussion instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12, 50-minute lessons during the course of the semester. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 3000 level private instruction in order to register for 4000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: 1 This course provides individual musical instruction at an advanced level. Private instruction is required of all music majors each semester. Music performance majors are required to take 60-minute lessons each week, while music education and music therapy students are required to take 30-minute lessons each week. All students are also required to participate in regular master classes, recitals and juries which fulfill the lab portion of the course. The course is also available to non-music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and performance skills. An additional fee is required. This course may be repeated for credit.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course focuses on the study of advanced techniques involved in audio production that build on the concepts covered in Audio Fundamentals I and II. It is the second of two course that comprise the Production Track core. Audio Production II focuses on production and mixing, which includes the study of various production and mixing techniques, both classic and contemporary. Snow College Catalog 2026-2027 131
Lecture hours: .5 to 1 Lab hours: 1 to 2 This course provides individual musical instruction at an advanced level. Private instruction is required of all music majors each semester. Music performance majors are required to take 60-minute lessons each week, while music education and music therapy students are required to take 30-minute lessons each week. All students are also required to participate in regular master classes, recitals and juries which fulfill the lab portion of the course. The course is also available to non-music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and performance skills. An additional fee is required. This course may be repeated for credit.
Typically Offered: Spring Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course is a study of the history and development of electronic music through the technological advances of synthesis, sampling and MIDI. It also focuses on developing an understanding of how sound is created through the various forms of synthesis and how sound is manipulated through tools like envelopes, LFOs, and filters. The course also covers audio sampling, advanced uses of MIDI, and how to channel all of these skills towards producing commercially viable music.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 1 Lab hours: 1 This course covers the technical aspects and artistic sensibilities involved in providing live sound reinforcement from a simple PA system to a large arena touring rig. It focusses on first covering information and then applying it with hands-on labs as well as practicum hours spent assisting with real events.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lecture hours: .5 Lab hours: 1 This course provides individual musical instruction in jazz at the advanced level. This course augments but does not replace private study on the major instrument and cannot be taken in the place of private lessons. All students taking this course are also required to participate in regular master classes, recitals and juries which fulfill the lab portion of the course. The course is also available to non-music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and performance skills. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.
Typically Offered: Fall Lecture hours: 1 This course provides students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of the concepts and skills necessary for completion of all tracks of the Bachelor of Music with Emphasis in Commercial Music, and is required of all students pursuing the degree. The course is project based; students will propose and complete projects designed to show their abilities and present these in a public forum, either live or online. Examples of these projects might include solo performances, audio or video recording of works, or the preparation of an online portfolio. In addition to completing the project, will learn or apply the skills necessary to present the project, including necessary computer, print, design, and marketing skills necessary to present their materials to the public.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Lab hours: 1 This course is to be taken in the final year of residence before graduation. Students will demonstrate through performance of a varied repertoire their ability to synthesize and artistically render musical knowledge and skills gained through private and ensemble study as well as theoretical and historical coursework. Students not pursuing the performance advisement track may opt to complete a senior project in production or composition.
