MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY
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Directed Studies (Year 2) cont.

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

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ELECTIVE 006 Music Elective
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ELECTIVES
Course Name
MUSC 262 Survey of Recording Techniques
MUSC 269 Songwriting IL
MUSC 283 Film Scoring IL
MUSC 285 Composition IL
MUSC 289 Advanced MIDI Applications II
MUSC 162 Instrumental Lab I

MUSC 165 - HISTORY OF JAZZ

A survey of the music of the jazz idiom from its origins
to the present. Included is a chronological study of
important soloists, bands, vocalists, and composers.
Classes will be partly lecture aided by video clips and
partly analysis with intensive listening.

MUSC 170 - ARRANGING |

An introductory course in commercial arranging
dealing primarily with the rhythm section. Specific
topics will include ranges of instruments, arranging
from lead sheets, planning an arrangement; as well

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as detailed analysis of the function and common
practice notational systems for the electric bass,
guitar, piano and drums. All assignments will be
scored and copied by the student and played by either
a project ensemble or the arranging class itself.

MUSC 171 - ARRANGING II

Expanding on the concepts presented in the
introductory level, this course deals with writing for
horns and a rhythm section. Techniques include soli
voicings, quartal voicings, and upper structure triads.

Pre-requisites: MUSC 170.

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.

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.

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 180.

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.

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