MUSICIANSHIP STUDIES (MUSC)
MUSC 111 - FOUNDATIONS OF MUSICIANSHIP
Melody, harmony, and rhythm in tonal music. Music reading and notation. Scales, chords, and meters. Basic ear training.
Credits: 3
Course Notes: No credit toward BM or BMA degree.
MUSC 121 - MUSICIANSHIP I, WRITTEN/AURAL
Analysis, harmonization, composition using primary triads and dominant seventh in all positions; basic principles of voice leading, counterpoint, melodic organization; non-chord tones. Melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal dictation and sight-singing using primary triads and dominant seventh in all positions and non-chord tones; aural identification of intervals within the octave and basic triad types in all positions.
Credits: 3
Course Notes: Placement requires diagnostic testing or completion of THAR 100.
MUSC 121A - MUSICIANSHIP I:WRITTEN SKILLS
Analysis, harmonization, composition using primary triads and dominant seventh in all positions; basic principles of voice leading, counterpoint, melodic organization; non-chord tones.
Credits: 2
Course Notes: Placement required. Open to music majors only.
MUSC 121B - MUSICIANSHIP I:AURAL SKILLS
Melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal dictation and sight-singing using primary triads and dominant seventh in all positions and non-chord tones; aural identification of intervals within the octave and basic triad types in all positions.
Credits: 1
Course Notes: Placement required. Open to music majors only.
MUSC 121C - MUSICIANSHIP I:PIANO SKILLS
Keyboard studies for non-pianists. Emphasis on solo and ensemble repertory, sight-reading, and reinforcement of musical materials covered in 121A and 121B.
Credits: 2
Course Notes: Placement required. Open to music majors only.
MUSC 122A - MUSICIANSHIP II:WRITTEN SKILLS
Continuation of MUSC 121A. Secondary triads and seventh chords, secondary dominants, modulation to close-related keys; binary and ternary forms.
Credits: 2
MUSC 122B - MUSICIANSHIP II:AURAL SKILLS
Aural identification of compound intervals and basic seventh chord types; melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal dictation and sight-singing derived from musical materials of MUSC 122A.
Credits: 1
MUSC 122C - MUSICIANSHIP II:PIANO SKILLS
Continuation of MUSC 121C, including reinforcement of musical materials covered in 122A and 122B.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: MUSC 121C
MUSC 123 - MUSICIANSHIP I: PIANO SKILLS
For non-piano majors with no of very limited experience at the piano. This is class instruction in basic performance and musicianship skills at the instrument.
Credits: 2
Attributes: Humanities
MUSC 124 - MUSICIANSHIP II: PIANO SKILLS
For non-piano majors. This is class instruction in basic performance and musicianship skills at the instrument, continuing on those skills accumulated in MUSC 123.
Credits: 2
Attributes: Humanities
Prerequisites: MUSC 123
MUSC 221 - MUSICIANSHIP III WRITTEN/AURAL
Analysis, harmonization, composition using primary chromatic harmony; basic principles of formal analysis; modulation to distant keys using chromatic and enharmonic processes. Melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal dictation and sight-singing derived from the musical materials above.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MUSC 122
MUSC 221A - MUSICIANSHIP III:WRITTEN SKILLS
Analysis, harmonization, composition using primary chromatic harmony; basic principles of formal analysis; modulation to distant keys using chromatic and enharmonic processes.
Credits: 2
MUSC 221B - MUSCIANSHIP III:AURAL SKILLS
Melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal dictation and sight-singing derived from musical materials of MUSC 221A
Credits: 1
MUSC 221C - MUSICIANSHIP III:PIANO SKILLS
Continuation of MUSC 122C, including reinforcement of musical materials covered in 121A and 121B
Credits: 2
MUSC 222 - MUSICIANSHIP IV WRITTEN/AURAL JAZZ
Studies of advanced harmonic structures, scale forms, and chord progressions in jazz and contemporary music.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: MUSC 221
Course Notes: No additional credit granted for MUSC 222A or MUSC 222B
MUSC 222A - MUSICIANSHIP IV:WRITTEN SKILLS
Styles and materials of 20th century music including expanded scalar and harmonic resources of Impressionism, advanced rhythmic and pandiatonic processes of Primitivism and Neoclassicism, free atonal procedures of Expressionism, and serial procedures of the Second Viennese School. Emphasis on stylistic analysis and imitative composition.
Credits: 2
MUSC 222B - MUSICIANSHIP IV:AURAL SKILLS
Melodic, rhythmic, and contrapuntal dictation and sight-singing derived from musical materials of MUSC 222A.
Credits: 1
MUSC 223 - MUSICIANSHIP III:PIANO SKILLS
Continuation of piano skills for non-piano students with the reinforcement of written/aural musicianship skills.
Credits: 2
Attributes: Humanities
Prerequisites: MUSC 124