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ELECTIVES
Course Name
MUSC 268 Songwriting I
MUSC 282 Film Scoring I
MUSC 284 Composition I
MUSC 288 Advanced MIDI Applications I
MUSC 162 Instrumental Lab I
SEMESTER 4
Course Name
MUSC 251 Directed Studies/Mentorship
MUSC 253 Private Lesson IV A
MUSC 259 Ensemble IV
MUSC 265 Instrumental Lab IV
MUSC 275 Contemporary Harmony IV
MUSC 281 Ear Training IV
MUSC 290 The Business of Music

ELECTIVE 006 Music Elective
ELECTIVE 006 Music Elective
ELECTIVE 007 Music Elective

ELECTIVES
Course Name
MUSC 262 Survey of Recording Techniques
MUSC 269 = Songwriting IT
MUSC 283 Film Scoring IL
MUSC 285 Composition IT
MUSC 289 = Advanced MIDI Applications IL
MUSC 163 Instrumental Lab IT

MUSC 174 - CONTEMPORARY HARMONY |

This course covers basic harmonic theory and
common musical notation used in the music industry
today. Topics include clefs, note recognition, key
signatures, scales, intervals, triad and seventh chord
construction, available tensions and basic harmonic
functions. Upon successful completion of the course
students will have a comprehensive and literate
vocabulary of basic musical terms and symbols, and a
working knowledge of basic harmonic functions.

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MUSC 175 - CONTEMPORARY HARMONY II

This course covers harmonic functions currently in
use in all styles of popular music. Extensive use of
recorded and written examples are used to show
the harmony/melody relationships. Basic harmonic
analysis as a tool is presented with an introduction
to diatonic, extended diatonic, and basic minor

key and Blues concepts. Students are required

to demonstrate, through written projects, the
current uses of these basic contemporary harmonic
techniques.

Pre-requisites: MUSC 174.

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MUSC 180 - EAR TRAINING I

This course is the first of a four level program
focusing on aural recognition of intervals, triads,
seventh chords, rhythms, melodies, diatonic chord
progressions and diatonic relative pitch. Students
begin to learn the language of solfege and sight
singing. This ear training class provides aural
perception of the theory learned in MUSC 174 which
is taught concurrently. Recorded examples as well as
live playing is used for developing dictation skills.

MUSC 181 - EAR TRAINING II

A continuation of the skills learned in MUSC 180.
The focus is on harmonically based melodies with
larger intervallic skips. Rhythms are explored
primarily through syncopated eighth notes, triplets
and sixteenth notes. This ear training class provides
an aural perception of MUSC 175, which is taught
concurrently.

Pre-requisites: MUSC 780.

MUSC 250 - PRIVATE LESSON III

A weekly one-hour private instrumental or vocal
lesson is provided for all Music Performance and
Music Songwriting majors. Instruction is available on
keyboard, woodwinds, saxophone, percussion, guitar,
electric and acoustic, bass, and voice. Lessons are
designed to increase students’ technical and musical
abilities.

Pre-requisites: MUSC 150 for 151; MUSC 151 for 250.

MUSC 250 - DIRECTED STUDIES/MENTORSHIP

A weekly bi-weekly (every other week) 1/2 hour
private tutorship is provided for all Directed Studies
majors. Students will consult with their mentor

ona consistent basis (for a total of six meetings

per semester). Instruction is designed to increase
student?s technical, artistic, and musical quality
relating to final project goals, as pertaining to
student?s project proposal and portfolio. The mentor
may be changed, pending approval, on a semester
basis.

Pre-requisites: Must be enrolled in the Directed Studies
Major.

MUSC 251 - PRIVATE LESSON IV

A weekly one-hour private instrumental or vocal
lesson is provided for all Music Performance and
Music Songwriting majors. Instruction is available on
keyboard, woodwinds, saxophone, percussion, guitar,
electric and acoustic, bass, and voice. Lessons are
designed to increase students’ technical and musical
abilities.

Pre-requisites: MUSC 250

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