Catalog 05-07 - Biola University

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The Los Angeles metropolitan area offers many opportunities for
remunerative service in music. There are frequent openings for
competent organists, church choir directors, soloists, accompanists
and instrumentalists.
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Music awards in varying amounts are available to qualified students.
Complete information is available by writing: Director, Conservatory
of Music, Biola University, 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada, CA 90639-
0001.
Courses (MUSC)
mUsC 100 Keyboard i ..................................................................................1
Designed to develop general keyboard facility. For the music
major, as preparation for entrance to MUSC 118. Graded on a
credit / no credit basis. (Units earned by the music major may
not apply toward music degree requirements.) Fee: $105.
mUsC 101 music appreciation ................................................................3
Elements of music and media of performance in historical
perspective. Provides basic background in music literature. For
the non-music major. Offered each semester.
mUsC 102 Voice Class .................................................................................1
Basic vocal training. Fee: $75.
mUsC 104 Guitar Class ................................................................................1
For the student with no previous training in guitar. Survey
of different styles of playing, together with music theory as
related to the instrument. First position chords, bar chords,
right and left hand technique. Fee: $75.
mUsC 113 a sight-singing & Dictation i ..................................................2
Sight-singing diatonic melodies, major and minor scales and
triads using moveable tonic solfege. Transcribing basic dia-
tonic melodies, cadences and progressions. Reading, perform-
ing and transcribing rhythmic patterns in simple, compound
and irregular meters.
mUsC 113 W music Theory i ..........................................................................2
The study of the following music fundamentals: elementary
acoustics, keyboard layout, intervals, scales, key signatures,
triads, figured bass, diatonic voice-leading, cadences, elemen-
tary harmonic progressions, meter, rhythm, time signatures
and staff notation.
mUsC 114 a sight-singing & Dictation ii .................................................2
Using 113 A materials as a foundation, this course will
encompass the sight-singing and transcribing of diatonic and
simple chromatic melodies with greater rhythmic complexity,
triads in all inversions, dominant seventh chords and altered
non-harmonic tones.
mUsC 114 W music Theory ii .........................................................................2
A study of common-practice diatonic harmony with emphasis
on voice leading and harmonic progression. Includes part-
writing, non-harmonic tones, cadences, figured bass and
Roman analysis.
mUsC 118 Keyboard ii .................................................................................1
Keyboard technique and literature for the non-keyboard
major. Graded on a credit / no credit basis. Prerequisite: 100 or
permission. Fee: $105.
mUsC 119 Keyboard iii ...............................................................................1
Keyboard technique and literature for the non-keyboard
major. Graded on a credit / no credit basis. Prerequisite: 118 or
permission. Fee: $105.
mUsC 120 Keyboard iV ...............................................................................1
Advanced functional keyboard skills for the composition
major. Included will be such skills as the playing of four-voice
progressions incorporating secondary dominants, Neapolitan
sixth chords, raised supertonic / raised submediant seventh
chords, etc. , as well as at-sight simple figured-bass realization
and sightreading from an open score. Required for B.M. Com-
position students. Fee: $105.
mUsC 141 applied music: Private ...........................................................1
Applied instruction in composition, piano, organ, harpsichord,
voice, brass, strings, woodwinds, percussion, conducting, and
improvisation. Fee: half hour lesson $290.
mUsC 142 applied music: Private ...........................................................2
Applied instruction in composition, piano, organ, harpsichord,
voice, brass instruments, string instruments, woodwind instru-
ments, percussion instruments, conduction, and improvisa-
tion. Fee: hour lesson $580.
mUsC 151 Lyric Diction i ............................................................................1
Lyric diction is taught in four semesters. All courses are 1 unit
lab courses meeting two hours per week. These courses are
geared for students studying classical vocal technique whose
vocal repertoire consists of foreign language as well as Eng-
lish, and who, therefore, must learn to accurately pronounce
and articulate foreign languages, and to know the meaning
of every word in the text in order to convey it accurately.
International Phonetic Alphabet, as it applies to the languages
studied, and the pronunciation and basic grammar of the
Italian language, will be taught.
mUsC 152 Lyric Diction ii ...........................................................................1
German diction and grammar will be covered in the second
semester.
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