Courses

Designed for the aspiring professional performer. Through classroom theory and off-campus application, acquire skills in programming for and communicating with diverse audiences, marketing & PR, and new paradigms of concert presentation. Will result in an actual musical presentation in the community. Restricted to College of Music majors only. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music undergraduate students only.

Learn the core principles of entrepreneurship, such as idea formation, venture models, opportunity assessment, market analysis, and strategies for launching a venture, and apply them to their own entrepreneurial ideas. Lectures, projects, entrepreneur interviews, and case studies will culminate in a feasibility study for an original entrepreneurial concept. Recommended prereq., MUSC 4918. Same as MUSC 5988.

Prereq., MUSC 3997. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite class of MUSC 3997. Restricted to College of Music undergraduate students only.

Prepares students to pursue independent research in the history of music. Meeting as a seminar, the course focuses on the nature of evidence, methods and tools of research, and theoretical or historiographic issues. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides a stylistic study of main contrapuntal genres of the period including FREE, TWO-and THREE-part imitative counterpoint in the style of Palestrina. Provides a foundation in species counterpoint, working towards free counterpoint; stresses analysis and composing in 16th-century styles. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

Studies musical and dance traditions and current practices. Prereq., MUSC 4012 or instructor consent. Same as DNCE 5054. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides a stylistic study of main contrapuntal genres of the period including INVENTION, SUITE, and FUGUE. Provides a foundation in species counterpoint; stresses analysis and composing in the styles. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

In-depth investigation of major original solo works for percussion, significant ensemble literature including chamber and large ensembles, and selected transcriptions. Prereqs., graduate standing in music and instructor consent.

Investigates major original solo works for trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba, and ensemble literature including chamber and large settings. Offered every other spring semester.

Provides an advanced study of orchestration techniques through score analysis and student projects. Offered fall only.

Surveys tonal analytical techniques. Prereq., passed general written theory and aural skills prelim exam, or completed remediation. Offered fall only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Focuses on theory and analysis of post-tonal literature pre-1945. Prereq., passed general written theory and aural skills prelim exam, or completed remediation. Offered fall and every other spring. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as MUSC 4078. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Presents advanced strategies for applying computer technology in several musical disciplines. Emphasizes the use of technology in composition, music theory,and music education. Offered fall only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies contemporary approaches to jazz improvisation and composition. Analysis of innovative composition and improvisation and strategies for integration of the material into a personal vocabulary are explored. Prereq., MUSC 3081. Offered spring only.

Provides an in-depth examination of teaching and learning processes in the elementary general music classroom, based on the integration of child development and musical development theories with content and delivery skills appropriate for K-5 general music classrooms. Students implement and evaluate music instruction, design curricular projects, and build a repertoire of vocal, instrumental, and speech-based arrangements. Restricted to graduate students in music education. Offered fall only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Music or Music Education graduate students only.

An analytical and historical survey of the repertory of the guitar and its antecedents from the renaissance to the present day. For graduate students. Same as MUSC 4106.

Examines the definition, scope, and methods of ethnomusicology, the discipline that focuses on approaches to the study of music theory, history, and performance practices of world cultures. Restricted to graduate students who have passed or remediated the World Music portion of their Musicology preliminary exams. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

Conducts advanced research in techniques and tools of music technology. Topics vary from term to term and may include: user interfaces for computer music; advanced sound design; digital modeling of acoustic sounds; computer-aided analysis of sound; modeling music intelligence in real time. Lectures and work sessions will support student projects. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., MUSC 5081 or instructor consent required.

Offers advanced work in conducting. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Addresses issues related to young artist development at the graduate level. Areas of concentration will include (but are not limited to) acting technique for singers, resume preparation and scene and character analysis. Students will participate in acting and improvisation exercises. Substantial classical voice study is required and this course is recommended for voice majors only. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines Native North American musical cultures, emphasizing music as an integral part of religious expression and community life. Restricted to graduate music majors. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Restricted to College of Music graduate students only. Same as MUSC 4143. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music graduate students only.

Continuation of PMUS 5137. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prereq., PMUS 5137.