Introduces the computer's role in music, synthesizer parameter definition, sequencers, editors, and notation programs. Provides computer-assisted instruction in music theory. Recommended Preparation: MUS or equivalent; ability to read notated music in at least one clef. Corequisite: MUS Reviews the rudiments of music including note reading, time signatures and rhythms, intervals, major and minor scales, key signatures, figured bass, triads, and reading lead sheets.
Introduces the student to part-writing, non-harmonic tones, and cadential figures. Prerequisite: MUS or equivalent.
Reviews the principles of voice leading in diatonic harmonic progressions, non-harmonic tones, and sevenths chords. Analyzes two-part contrapuntal principles, introduces secondary chords, modulation, and small forms. Includes elementary music theory, basic singing, and performance of autoharp and recorder. Develops elementary piano keyboard facility.
Surveys various topics in music including, but not limited to, music fundamentals, music history, and music and culture. Surveys the historical development of jazz and its major stylistic shifts. Emphasizes the influence of West African music and early African-American music to the pluralism of jazz in the twenty-first century. Focuses on developing analytical and listening skills and evaluating the significance of jazz in American culture. Surveys American popular music since the turn of the twentieth century up to the present.
Focuses on how popular music reflects the social, political, and economic trends of America. Emphasizes analysis and voice leading of triads, seventh chords, secondary dominants, and chromatic chords found in music literature. Incorporates composition for keyboard and in the four-part chorale style. Includes post-Romantic techniques such as borrowed chords and modal mixture, chromatic mediants, Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords, altered chords, and dominants; and 20th century techniques such as Impressionism, tone rows, set theory, pandiatonicism and polytonalism, meter, and rhythm.
