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MUS 149 Opera Workshop
2 cr. hrs. 3 periods (1 lec., 2 lab)
Introduction to the techniques of opera. Includes exercise in stage movement, musical preparation, staging and
memorization of scenes, performance of opera, and reevaluation and practice.
Information:
May be taken four times for a maximum of eight credit hours.
Student chosen by audition.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
MUS 151 Exploring Music
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Introduction to various historical musical styles. Includes elements of music, musical instruments, the Middle Ages, the
Renaissance, the Baroque era, classics, and the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
MUS 154 Jazz Improvisation
2 cr. hrs. 2 periods (2 lec.)
Study of jazz improvisation on various instruments. Includes rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic aspects of jazz styles. Also
includes an emphasis on progressive development of musical skills through interpretation of literature.
Information:
Students chosen by audition.
May be taken ten times for a maximum of twenty credit hours.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
MUS 155 Introduction to Electronic Music I
3 cr. hrs. 4 periods (2 lec., 2 lab)
Introduction to producing music with Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) configurations and WAV sounds. Includes
concepts in acoustics and music synthesis, use of hardware and software, music notation software, music sequencing
software, and documentation of projects. Also includes computers, printers, and keyboard controller.
Recommendation: Ability to read music before enrolling in this course.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
MUS 156 Introduction to Electronic Music II
3 cr. hrs. 4 periods (2 lec., 2 lab)
Continuation of MUS 155. Includes song data entry from computer synthesizer keyboards, editor/library, and percussion
writing.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 155.
Offered: Spring.
MUS 157 Music Industry I: Marketing, Merchandising and the Law
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Operation, scope, and career opportunities in the music business. Includes music in the marketplace, professional
songwriting and music composition, music copyright and publishing, business affairs in the music industry, and application
of information.
Offered: Fall.
MUS 158 Music Industry II: Music in Recording and Mass Media
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Operation, scope, and career opportunties in the music business. Includes focus on the record industry, environmental
music, uses of music in radio, telecommunications and film, and career options.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
MUS 160 Popular Music in America
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Study of the history of popular music culture in America through current trends in today’s society. Includes background of
music, sources of music, birth of music, syncopated song and dance, jazz, crooners and jazz singers, musical theater,
country music, Latin music traditions, and roots of rock and roll. Also includes impact of technology, motown and soul,
rock in the seventies, and modern trends.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
MUS 201 History and Literature of Music I
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Music history and literature from the ancient Greeks through the Baroque. Includes emphasis on specific works and
composers as representative of the evolution of Western music.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 125 or concurrent enrollment.
Offered: Spring.
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