2009â2010 Academic Catalog - Concordia University Ann Arbor
2009â2010 Academic Catalog - Concordia University Ann Arbor
2009â2010 Academic Catalog - Concordia University Ann Arbor
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<strong>Concordia</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Ann</strong> <strong>Arbor</strong> 2009–2010 <strong>Academic</strong> <strong>Catalog</strong><br />
mathematics. Results of the project are communicated in an oral public presentation and a written paper. Prerequisites: Senior<br />
standing & instructor's permission & 24 credits completed in Mathematics major.<br />
MUS201A Music Theory I credits: 3<br />
Students examine part writing using fundamental triads and their inversion. Ear training lab required.<br />
MUS201B Aural Theory I credits: 1<br />
Provides students with the knowledge to read at sight, notate, and improvise short musical examples. Co-requisite: MUS201A<br />
MUS202A Music Theory II credits: 3<br />
This course presents non-harmonic tones, modulation and seventh chords in part writing. Chorale settings of the eighteenth<br />
century. Ear training lab required. Prerequisite: MUS201A<br />
MUS202B Aural Theory II credits: 1<br />
This course provides students with the knowledge to sightread, notate, and improvise short musical examples. Prerequisite:<br />
MUS201B & Co-requisite: MUS202A<br />
MUS205 Musical Improvisation credits: 1<br />
This course focuses on the fundamentals of musical improvisation, with emphasis on jazz improvisation.<br />
MUS217 Chamber Music credits: 2<br />
Through the formation of small ensembles, students will learn the skills and terminology essential to the performance of chamber<br />
music. Techniques for adapting literature to suit the needs of any ensemble will also be explored. Performances of the music<br />
learned will take place inside and outside of the college community. Prerequisite: MUS202<br />
MUS221 Conducting I credits: 1<br />
Students learn the essential elements of choral and instrumental conducting correlated with ear training, progressing from single<br />
line to simple four part choral and instrumental materials.<br />
MUS222 Conducting II credits: 1<br />
This course provides essentials of choral and instrumental conducting correlated with ear training, progressing from single line to<br />
simple four-part choral and instrumental materials. Prerequisite: MUS221<br />
MUS223 Functional Keyboard Skills credits: 1<br />
This course will enable the student to develop skills of sight reading, accompaniment and hymn playing at the keyboard.<br />
Prerequisites: PIA302 or instructor permission.<br />
MUS243 Instrumental Techniques: Percussion credits: 1<br />
Fundamental skills for playing percussion instruments. Application to development of school music programs.<br />
MUS245 Voice Techniques credits: 1<br />
This course will equip future choral conductors and voice teachers with basic vocal pedagogical knowledge. The varying needs of<br />
church choirs, children's choirs, teen choirs, and adult choirs, including warm-ups and diction, will be examined.<br />
MUS301A Music Theory III credits: 3<br />
The study and application of contrapuntal techniques of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries and the tonal resources of<br />
the nineteenth century. Emphasis on analysis and composition. Prerequisite: MUS202A<br />
MUS301B Aural Theory III credits: 1<br />
Provides students with the knowledge to sight read, notate, and improvise short musical examples. Prerequisite: MUS202B & Corequisite:<br />
MUS301A<br />
MUS302A Music Theory IV credits: 3<br />
Provides study and application of the tonal, rhythmic and formal resources of the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on<br />
analysis and composition. Prerequisite: MUS301 or MUS301A<br />
MUS302B Aural Theory IV credits: 1<br />
This course provides students with the advanced skills to read at sight, notate, and improvise extended musical examples.<br />
Prerequisite: MUS301B & Co-requisite: MUS302A<br />
MUS321 Conducting III credits: 1<br />
Advanced choral and instrumental conducting correlated with ear training. Advanced literature for voices and instruments.<br />
Prerequisite: MUS222<br />
MUS331 History of Music I (w) credits: 3<br />
The development of music from antiquity to about 1750. Emphasis upon the theoretical and aesthetic foundations of Western<br />
music during this time. Prerequisites: ENG101 & MUS302<br />
MUS332 History of Music II (w) credits: 3<br />
The development of music from 1750 to the present. Emphasis upon the monuments of music and the compositional procedures<br />
exhibited in the musical genera of this time. Prerequisites: MUS202 or MUS202A and ENG101<br />
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