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SPECIAL NOTE: Due
to my current service as Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, I am
teaching only Performance Study. Barbara
Mackin is teaching theory courses during this period.
MUS 133: Music Theory I: Western Music Fundamentals (4 credits)
Introduction to pitch and rhythm notation in Western music; the major-minor key system, with a survey of modes and other scale forms; intervals, triads, basic harmonic concepts; texture; melodic structure. Development of aural skills through sight singing and computer drills. No prerequisite. Counts toward Aesthetic Analysis Perspective. Offered alternate fall terms; next offered in Fall 2003.
MUS 134: Music Theory II: Structure and Harmony (4 credits)
Study of harmonic practice in Western tonal music through analysis and part-writing, including triad function, seventh chords, modulation, and secondary chords; introduction to simple part forms. Development of aural skills through sight singing and computer drills. Prerequisite: Music Theory I or permission. Counts toward Aesthetic Analysis Perspective. Offered alternate spring terms; next offered in Spring 2004.
MUS 232: Music Theory III: Advanced Structure and Chromatic Harmony (4 credits)
Study of chromatic musical materials, with harmonic analysis of Western music through the late 19th century, along with an introduction to large developmental and imitative forms. Development of aural skills through sight singing and computer drills. Prerequisite: Music Theory II. Counts toward Aesthetic Analysis Perspective. Offered alternate fall terms; next offered Fall 2004.
MUS 233: Music Theory IV: 20th-21st Century Practices (4 credits)
Advanced chromatic and nonfunctional practices used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and a survey of representative 20th and 21st century techniques and styles, from post-Romanticism and atonality to minimalism and recent eclecticism. Special analytical approaches appropriate to these styles are introduced.
Prerequisite: Music Theory III. Counts toward Aesthetic Analysis Perspective. Offered alternate spring terms; next offered spring 2005.
MUS 251: Piano Pedagogy I (2 credits)
Survey of methods and materials for teaching piano to children through adolescence, with an examination of principles from educational psychology and their practical application in the teaching process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered occasionally on demand; next offering not yet scheduled.
MUS 252: Piano Pedagogy II (2 credits)
Survey of methods and materials for teaching piano to students from late adolescence through adulthood. Topics include the teaching of advanced literature, pedagogy for older beginners, and group piano techniques. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered occasionally on demand; next offering not yet scheduled.
MUS 411: Piano Seminar (Piano Literature) (4 credits)
A survey of the literature of the piano and its stringed-keyboard predecessors. May be taken as consecutive two-credit seminars. Prerequisite: At least junior standing and permission of instructor. Offered occasionally upon demand; sometimes offered as an independent study.
MUS 433, 434: Composition (2 or 4 credits)
Independent study or small group seminar in compositional techniques and styles. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered occasionally on demand; next offering not yet scheduled.
MUS 435: Orchestration (2 credits)
Independent study or small group seminar in techniques and applications of arranging music for instrumental ensembles. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered occasionally on demand; next offering not yet scheduled.