Music Course Descriptions

4

(Recommended: Experience with voice or instrument)
Introduces fundamentals of music: notation, scales, key signatures, and intervals, with application to aural comprehension through singing intervals, scales, triads, dictating simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.
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3

Surveys basic musical elements and their development from early Greece to the Classical period. Nontechnical; required attendance at live musical performances.
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3

Emphasizes study of symphonic music, chamber music, and vocal literature from the Romantic period to the 20th century. Nontechnical; required attendance at live musical performances.
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3

Introduces jazz as a modern musical form, and emphasizes its evolution over the course of the 20th century.
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3

Presents various topics. See Schedule of Classes.
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