MUSI Music (T)
MUSI-1117: Sight Singing and Ear Training II
Credit Hours 1MUSI-1181: Piano Class I
Credit Hours 1Class instruction in the fundamentals of keyboard technique for beginning piano students. Open to all students.
MUSI-1183: Voice Class
Credit Hours 1Class instruction in the fundamentals of singing including breathing, tone production, and diction. Designed for students with little or no previous voice training. Does not apply to a music major degree. Open to all students.
MUSI-1188: Percussion Class
Credit Hours 1Class instruction in the fundamental techniques of playing and teaching percussion instruments.
MUSI-1192: Guitar Class
Credit Hours 1Class instruction in fundamental guitar playing, including technique, music-reading, fretboard theory, melodic and harmonic realizations. Open to all students.
MUSI-1303: Fundamentals of Music
Credit Hours 3Introduction to the basic elements of music theory, including scales, intervals, keys, triads, elementary ear training, notation, meter and rhythm. Course does not apply to a music major degree.
MUSI-1306: Music Appreciation
Credit Hours 3Understanding music through the study of cultural periods, major composers, and musical elements. Illustrated with audio recordings and live performances. Open to all students. (Does not apply to a music major degree.)
MUSI-1307: Music Literature
Credit Hours 3An in-depth study of the music, literature and history from the 15th through the 20th Centuries. Emphasis will be placed on principle forms and composers of the literature of those historical periods. This course is designed for music majors, but is also appropriate for any student who has prior musical knowledge.
MUSI-1311: Music Theory I
Credit Hours 3The study of analysis and writing of tonal melody and diatonic harmony, including fundamental music concepts, scales, intervals, chords, 7th chords, and early four-part writing. Analysis of small compositional forms. Optional correlated study at the keyboard.
Prerequisites: Previous music experience.
Corequisites: This course should be taken concurrently with MUSI-1116.
MUSI-1312: Music Theory II
Credit Hours 3The study of analysis and writing of tonal melody and diatonic harmony, including all diatonic chords and seventh chords in root position and inversions, non-chord tones, and functional harmony. Introduction to more complex topics, such as modulation, may occur. Optional correlated study at the keyboard. This course is required for music majors.
Prerequisites: MUSI-1311 or placement exam by the instructor.
Corequisites: This course should be taken concurrently with MUSI-1117.
MUSI-2116: Sight Singing and Ear Training III
Credit Hours 1MUSI-2117: Sight Singing and Ear Training IV
Credit Hours 1MUSI-2311: Music Theory III
Credit Hours 3Advanced harmony voice leading, score analysis and writing of more advanced tonal harmony including chromaticism and extended-tertian structures. Optional correlated study at the keyboard. This course is required for music majors.
Prerequisites: MUSI-1312.
Corequisites: This course should be taken with MUSI-2116.
MUSI-2312: Music Theory IV
Credit Hours 3MUSI-2389: Academic Cooperative
Credit Hours 3An instructional program designed to integrate on-campus study with practical hands-on work experience. In conjunction with class seminars, the individual student will set specific goals and objectives in the study of music.