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Undergraduate Programs
MUS 236. Technique for Piano 1 credit
Basic keyboard skills for classroom and personal
use, including scales, chords, harmonization,
sight reading, and transposition. Required for
first-year music majors. May be repeated for
credit. Music majors and minors only.
MUS 237. Technique for Voice 1 credit
Theoretical and practical aspects, such as voice
classification, technical training methods, breathing,
the adolescent changing voice, style, and
interpretation. Music majors only.
MUS 238. Technique for
Woodwind Instruments
1 credit
Basic skills for playing woodwind instruments.
Planning a course of study. Simulates classroom
situations and methods. Music majors only.
MUS 239. Technique for
String Instruments
1 credit
Basic skills for playing string instruments.
Planning a course of study. Simulates classroom
situations and methods. Music majors only.
MUS 240. Technique for Guitar 1 credit
Fundamentals for music education majors and
elementary classroom teachers. Develops such
skills as chording, harmonizing, transposing and
reading of melodic lines. Music majors only.
MUS 242. Piano Pedagogy and Literature 1 credit
Overview of methods and materials for teaching
piano at all levels. Listening lectures pertaining to
piano literature from 1700 to the present.
MUS 244. Music for the Elementary
Classroom Teacher
3 credits
Designed for elementary classroom teachers to
provide materials and skills for teaching music in
the classroom. Emphasis on basic theory, fundamental
piano, guitar and singing.
MUS 301, 302. Advanced Harmony 2 credits
Seventh chords, dominant ninth, 11th and 13th
+ = Applicable toward general education degree requirements
WI = Writing intensive course
chords, sequences, non-chord tones, chromatically
altered chords and chromatic modulation.
MUS 307, 308. Advanced Sight-Singing
and Ear Training
2 credits
Continuation of MUS 207, 208. More complex
melodies and rhythms, harmonic progressions
and aural perception of musical structures.
+MUS 310. Music in Liturgy
3 credits
The history and development of Christian worship
with special emphasis on musical traditions.
The theological, pastoral, and practical aspects of
planning contemporary Catholic and Protestant
worship services. Practical experience in liturgical
planning. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
(Same as THEO 310)
MUS 311. Chamber Singers
1 credit
A mixed-voice chamber choir of eight to 16
singers which studies and performs significant literature
for the chamber choir. Enrollment by
audition. Maximum of four credits may be used
toward completion of a degree.
+MUS 313. STAMVOJA
1 credit
Vocal jazz performing ensemble. Membership by
audition.
MUS 319. Conducting
3 credits
Essentials of conducting, with technique and
mechanics of the baton. Literature pertaining to
art of conducting. Rehearsal procedure and conducting
practice. Prerequisites: MUS 301, 302.
MUS 320. Conducting
Apprenticeship
1 credit
An independent conducting apprenticeship in
vocal or instrumental music involving the preparation
and concert direction of one or more
pieces. May be repeated once for credit.
MUS 323. Music Materials and
Methods
3 credits
Study of materials, media, and methods used in
teaching music in public schools. Prerequisites:
MUS 202, 208.
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