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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses

 

Music
  

  • MUSI 1000 - Freshman Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Description
    To provide a forum for freshman music students addressing campus-wide, music school -specific, and professional issues of major importance to their success.
  

  • MUSI 1100 - Marching Band

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 5
    Prerequisite: admission by audition.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 1102 - Wind Ensemble

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 5
    Prerequisite: admission by audition.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 1103 - Cougar Brass

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: admission by audition.
    Description
    Does not fulfill the requirements for large ensemble for music majors.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 1110 - Jazz Orchestra

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: admission by audition.
    May be repeated for credit but no more than four semesters may be used to satisfy the requirements for large ensemble music majors.

    Additional Fee $2.00 Fee Type Class/Music Laboratory
  

  • MUSI 1120 - University Chorus

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: admission by audition.
    Description
    No student will be allowed to enroll in more than two choral organizations in any one semester.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 1121 - Concert Chorale

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: admission by audition.
    May be repeated for credit.

    Note: No student will be allowed to enroll in more than two choral organizations in any one semester.
  

  • MUSI 1140 - Orchestra

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 5
    Prerequisite: admission by audition.
    May be repeated for credit.

    Additional Fee $2.00 Fee Type Class/Music Laboratory
  

  • MUSI 1160 - Group Piano I

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: admission as music major.
    Description
    Introduction to piano playing for music majors without previous keyboard training.
  

  • MUSI 1161 - Group Piano II

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: admission as music major.
    Description
    Introduction to piano playing for music majors without previous keyboard training.
  

  • MUSI 1170 - Aural Skills I

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: credit for or enrollment in MUSI 1310 .
    Description
    Introduction to solfege, melodic and harmonic dictation. Aural skills exercises in diatonic materials, simple meters.
  

  • MUSI 1171 - Aural Skills II

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1170  and credit for or enrollment in MUSI 1311 .
    Description
    Continuation of MUSI 1170 , through modal mixture and diatonic sevenths; compound meter; decorative chromaticism; alto clef.
  

  • MUSI 1200 - Class Voice

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Description
    Class studies in vocal methods and materials.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 1220 - Class Piano I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    Essentials of piano playing for students without previous instruction.
    May be repeated for credit.

    Note: Open to all students except music majors.
    Additional Fee $55.00 Fee Type Music Concert/Perf Pass
  

  • MUSI 1221 - Class Piano II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1220  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Essentials of piano playing for students without previous instruction. Open to all students except music majors. May be repeated for credit.
    May be repeated for credit.

    Note: Open to all students except music majors.
  

  • MUSI 1300 - Fundamentals of Music

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Description
    Primarily for non-music majors. Does not require any musical background. Does not fulfill any degree requirement for music major. An introduction to music through a study of its melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic elements.
    Additional Fee $55.00 Fee Type Music Concert/Perf Pass
  

  • MUSI 1301 - Rudiments of Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Music majors only or consent of instructor.
    Description
    A non-degree applicable preparatory music theory course including a study of its melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic elements of music.
  

  • MUSI 1310 - Theory I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: passing grade on the Theory Entrance Exam.
    Description
    Review of musical rudiments; harmony and voice-leading through submediant and mediant chords; figured bass; cadences and phrase structure; basic analysis; elementary composition.
  

  • MUSI 1311 - Theory II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1310 .
    Description
    Harmony and voice-leading through modal mixture, secondary dominants and modulation; periodic structures; further analysis and composition.
  

  • MUSI 2101 - Vocal Diction

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Description
    Study of pronunciation of texts in vocal music.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 2160 - Group Piano III

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1161  or by advanced placement.
    Description
    Development of the ability to use the piano in a functional way for analysis, accompanying, and arranging.
  

  • MUSI 2161 - Group Piano IV

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1161  or by advanced placement.
    Description
    Development of the ability to use the piano in a functional way for analysis, accompanying, and arranging.
  

  • MUSI 2170 - Aural Skills III

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1171  and passing grade on Aural Skills Proficiency Exam I; credit for or concurrent enrollment in MUSI 2210 .
    Description
    Tenor clef; secondary dominants; elementary modulation; more advanced rhythmic problems, including borrowed divisions.
  

  • MUSI 2171 - Aural Skills IV

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: MUSI 2170  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MUSI 2214 .
    Description
    Advanced chromaticism; remote modulation; quintuple meters; introduction to twentieth century materials, including modes and multimeter
  

  • MUSI 2188 - Collaborative Keyboard

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Description
    Techniques for developing skills in sight reading, keyboard harmony, rhythmic training, and accompanying.
    May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.
  

  • MUSI 2210 - Theory III

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 1310 , MUSI 1311 , and passing grade on Theory Proficiency Exam II.
    Description
    Harmony and voice-leading through linear chords, the Neapolitan and augmented sixths, advanced modulation, ninth chords; binary form; more advanced modulation and composition
  

  • MUSI 2214 - Techniques of Music Since 1900

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly MUSI 3210
    Prerequisite: MATH 1310 ; MUSI 2210  and passing grade on Theory Proficiency Exam III.
    Description
    Study of compositional practices of the twentieth century and later, through analysis and composition exercises.
  

  • MUSI 2301 - Classical Music and Lasting Value

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Completion or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1303 .
    Description
    Course investigates art music compositions as they encompass questions of aesthetics and enduring topics in history and culture. No previous knowledge of music required.
    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  

  • MUSI 2302 - Listening to Jazz

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Introduction to jazz listening and jazz history through the study of specific works in historical and cultural contexts.
    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  

  • MUSI 2320 - Computers and Technology for Musicians

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: music major or minor.
    Description
    Introduction to the use of computers and related technology for musicians, including notation, music theory, composition, presentation, and general integrated software applications.
  

  • MUSI 2342 - Music for Children

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly MUSI 4342
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Study covers the elements of music, and musical materials and teaching concepts appropriate for children in grades K-4.
    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
    Additional Fee $55.00 Fee Type Music Concert/Perf Pass
  

  • MUSI 2361 - Music and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1311  and ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    An introduction to the traditional musics of selected cultures.
    TCCNS Equivalent: MUSI 1309
  

  • MUSI 2362 - History of Music I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 2361 .
    Description
    Survey of western classical music from the Middle Ages through the Baroque period.
    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  

  • MUSI 2397 - Selected Topics in Music

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  

  • MUSI 3100 - Woodwinds

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Description
    May not serve as an advanced music elective. Class studies in woodwind instruments primarily for music education - instrumental majors.
  

  • MUSI 3101 - Woodwinds

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Description
    May not serve as an advanced music elective. Class studies in woodwind instruments primarily for music education - instrumental majors.
  

  • MUSI 3102 - Brasses

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Description
    May not serve as an advanced music elective. Class studies in brass instruments primarily for music education - instrumental majors.
  

  • MUSI 3103 - Brasses

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Description
    May not serve as an advanced music elective. Class studies in brass instruments primarily for music education - instrumental majors.
  

  • MUSI 3104 - Strings

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: approval of the School of Music.
    Description
    May not serve as an advanced music elective for music majors.
  

  • MUSI 3105 - Strings

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: approval of the School of Music.
    Description
    May not serve as an advanced music elective for music majors.
  

  • MUSI 3106 - Percussion

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: approval of the School of Music.
    Description
    May not serve as an advanced music elective for music majors.
  

  • MUSI 3107 - Basic Vocal Techniques

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Description
    May not be used as an advanced music elective. Class studies in vocal methods and materials for music certification.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 3108 - Piano for Choral Directors

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: pass piano proficiency exam or consent of instructor.
    Description
    May not be used as an advanced music elective. Develop piano skills for the choral ensemble including accompanying, transposition, and score reading and reduction.
  

  • MUSI 3110 - Jazz Improvisation

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 3160 - Advanced Sight Reading for Keyboard Players

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1311 .
    Description
    Advanced techniques in reading
  

  • MUSI 3215 - Introduction to Large Forms

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: MUSI 2214  and passing grade on Theory Proficiency Exam IV and Aural Skills Proficiency Exam II.
    Description
    Introduction to the study of larger musical forms of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries; introduction to the analysis of contrapuntal textures.
  

  • MUSI 3216 - Analysis

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Formerly MUSI 4211
    Prerequisite: MUSI 2214 .
    Description
    Analysis of selected musical literature.
  

  • MUSI 3240 - Organ Literature

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  

  • MUSI 3241 - Organ Literature

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  

  • MUSI 3261 - Keyboard Harmony

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 1311 .
    Description
    Theory at the keyboard, harmonization, improvisation, figured bass, and keyboard techniques.
  

  • MUSI 3300 - Listening to Music Masterworks

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    An introduction to the masterworks of Western music from Gregorian chant to the present.
    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
    Additional Fee $55.00 Fee Type Music Concert/Perf Pass
  

  • MUSI 3301 - Listening to World Music

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    An introduction to the folk and traditional musics of selected world cultures.
    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  

  • MUSI 3303 - Popular Music in the Americas Since 1840

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Historical survey of popular music styles from the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, and Latin America from 1840 to the present.
    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  

  • MUSI 3363 - History of Music II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 2362 .
    Description
    Survey of western classical music from the Classical period through Wagner.
  

  • MUSI 3364 - History of Music III

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3363 .
    Description
    Survey of western classical music from Wagner to the present.
  

  • MUSI 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of the director of the School of Music.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 4100 - Chamber Music

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: enrollment for wind, string, or percussion instrument or piano.
    Description
    May not serve as advanced music elective for music majors.
    May be repeated for credit beyond degree requirements with approval of director of the School of Music. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 4102 - Acting for Opera

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
    Description
    Basics of acting in a solo situation with the added dimension of music. Topics include physical awareness, improvisation, focus, gesture, dramatic and musical analysis, and style of presentation in auditions and concerts. Lecture, presentations, critiques, and in-class exercises.
  

  • MUSI 4104 - New Music Ensemble

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: admission by audition only; approval of student’s applied instructor and/or area coordinator.
    Description
    May count as chamber music with approvals. May not serve as advanced music elective or advanced music history/literature elective.
    May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.
  

  • MUSI 4112 - Chamber Music - Woodwinds

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in applied instruction in winds.
    Description
    May not serve as advanced music elective for music majors.
    May be repeated for credit beyond degree requirements with approval of the director of the School of Music.
  

  • MUSI 4114 - Chamber Music - Brass

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in applied instruction in brass.
    Description
    May not serve as advanced music elective for music majors.
    May be repeated for credit beyond degree requirements with approval of the director of the School of Music.
  

  • MUSI 4118 - Saxophone Ensemble

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in applied saxophone.
    Description
    May not serve as advanced music elective for music majors.
    May be repeated for credit beyond degree requirements with approval of the director of the School of Music.
  

  • MUSI 4120 - Percussion Ensemble

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in applied percussion.
    Description
    May not serve as advanced music elective for music majors.
    May be repeated for credit beyond degree requirements with approval of the director of the School of Music.
  

  • MUSI 4122 - Electronic Composition

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: composition majors studying at the 3000-level or by consent of Composition Area Coordinator.
    Description
    Basic composition techniques in electronic music; an historic overview and study of significant works of electronic music.
  

  • MUSI 4160 - Internship in Piano Teaching I

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: Junior standing in music. Successful completion of MUSI 4250  & MUSI 4251 .
    Description
    Guided teaching of beginner level students through supervised scenarios designed by the instructor. This course offers students the opportunity to apply teaching techniques and employ problem solving strategies within the individual instructional setting. Includes a focus on sequencing beginning technical instruction.
  

  • MUSI 4161 - Internship in Piano Teaching II

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: Junior standing in music. Successful completion of MUSI 4250 , MUSI 4251  & MUSI 4160 .
  

  • MUSI 4197 - Selected Topics in Music

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    May be repeated with approval of director of the School of Music.
  

  • MUSI 4198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of director of the School of Music.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 4220 - Choral Conducting I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 2214  and MUSI 2171 .
    Description
    Fundamental aspects of gesture in choral conducting, particularly physiology, preparation, the proper execution of beat patterns, cuing, and releases. Introduces rudimentary score marking and score study.
  

  • MUSI 4221 - Choral Conducting II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 4220 .
    Description
    Builds on skills acquired in MUSI 4220  and examines the execution of dynamics and character in the conducting gesture. Continues the discussion of comprehensive score study.
  

  • MUSI 4230 - Instrumental Conducting I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 2211 and MUSI 2214 .
    Description
    Fundamental aspects of gesture in instrumental conducting, hierarchical listening, ensemble sound production and pitch, collective breathing techniques, basic score study, and rehearsal planning and pacing.
  

  • MUSI 4231 - Instrumental Conducting II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 4230 .
    Description
    Builds on skills acquired in MUSI 4230  with greater emphasis on score study, and the rehearsal techniques and diagnostic skills necessary for developing successful instrumental ensembles.
  

  • MUSI 4250 - Performance Pedagogy

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing in applied music (MUSA).
  

  • MUSI 4251 - Advanced Performance Pedagogy

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Junior standing in applied music. Successful completion of MUSI 4250 .
    Description
    An exploration of methods, materials, teaching techniques, and strategies for individual and group instruction for intermediate to early advanced piano students. Includes an introduction to teaching musical style and performance practice of the standard teaching repertoire.
  

  • MUSI 4297 - Selected Topics in Music

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    May be repeated with approval of director of the School of Music.
  

  • MUSI 4298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of director of the School of Music.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MUSI 4301 - Modal Counterpoint

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3215  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Contrapuntal techniques prior to the eighteenth century.
  

  • MUSI 4302 - Eighteenth Century Counterpoint

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3215  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Contrapuntal techniques of the eighteenth century.
  

  • MUSI 4303 - Style Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3215  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    The study of various styles of music through analysis of scores from various periods of music history.
  

  • MUSI 4304 - Chromatic Harmony

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3215  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Analyses and written exercises of extended tonal and early nontonal music.
  

  • MUSI 4312 - Orchestration

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 2214  and junior standing in composition, or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Instruments of the orchestra, including ranges, transpositions, and characteristics; basics of scoring for small and large instrumental ensembles.
  

  • MUSI 4330 - Advanced Instrumental Conducting

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0    Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
    Prerequisite: Undergraduate standing in music and consent of instructor.
    Description
    Advanced theory and practical techniques for the conductor of orchestral ensembles.
  

  • MUSI 4340 - Elementary and Middle School Instrumental Administration

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUED 3320 .
    Description
    Recruiting methods, materials and organization applicable to the beginning band/orchestra program; wind instrument instruction and student accountability. May not be used as an advanced music elective.
  

  • MUSI 4342 - Music for Children

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Elements, representative master composer compositions, and song literature for children.
    Note: May not serve as an advanced elective for music majors.
  

  • MUSI 4343 - Materials for Children’s Choirs Grades 4-12

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 4221 , MUED 3320 , and HDFS 3300 .
    Description
    May not be used as an advanced music elective. Performance practices, vocal techniques, and music literature.
  

  • MUSI 4344 - High School Instrumental Administration and Marching Band Techniques

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUED 3320 , MUSI 4231 , and MUSI 4340 .
    Description
    Performance practices, instrumental techniques, and music literature. May not be used as an advanced music elective.
  

  • MUSI 4357 - Music in the Seventeenth Century

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Genres and styles of music from Monteverdi though Buxtehude and their relationship to the culture that produced it.
  

  • MUSI 4358 - Music of Bach and Handel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Life, times, and selected musical works by the two most famous composers from the late Baroque: G. F. Handel and J. S. Bach.
  

  • MUSI 4360 - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Classical Style

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Music of the late eighteenth century with emphasis on the Viennese school of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
  

  • MUSI 4361 - Music of the Romantic Period I (1800 - 1848)

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Biographical, critical, cultural, and theoretical contexts for early romantic music by composers such as Schubert, Rossini, Berlioz, and Chopin, extending from Beethoven’s middle period (ca. 1803) to the revolutions of 1848-9.
  

  • MUSI 4363 - Music of the Romantic Period II (1848 - 1914)

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Biographical, critical, cultural, and theoretical contexts for late romantic music by composers such as Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler, extending from the revolutions of 1848-9 through 1910.
  

  • MUSI 4364 - Music in the Twentieth Century I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    First semester covers the years 1900 - 1945.
  

  • MUSI 4365 - Music in the Twentieth Century II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Second semester continues to the present.
  

  • MUSI 4366 - Music in the United States

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3300  or MUSI 3364  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    A social, historical, and stylistic survey of American music from the Pilgrims to the present, including popular music in all periods.
  

  • MUSI 4370 - Art Song Repertoire

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Introduction to song repertoire includes fusion of poetry and music, composers’ song styles and signature musical characteristics grouped by national categories including German, French, American, British, Italian, Spanish, and Russian.
    Note: Not an advanced literature elective.
  

  • MUSI 4378 - History of Jazz I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    An overview of jazz history from its beginnings through the Swing Era.
  

  • MUSI 4379 - History of Jazz II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Survey of performance practices after 1940 including Bebop, Cool, Hard Bop, Post-Bop, the Avant-garde, and Jazz-Rock Fusion.
  

  • MUSI 4380 - Opera Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Survey of opera literature from its Baroque era beginnings through the present day.
  

  • MUSI 4382 - Symphonic Music

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    The birth of the orchestra and a survey of its repertoire from the eighteenth century to the present.
  

  • MUSI 4386 - Choral Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MUSI 3364 .
    Description
    Choral literature, including sources, editions, stylistic considerations, and appropriate performance practices from each of the major periods of music history.
 

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