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MUS 101- Music Appreciation

Evaluate important musical elements in any type of music.
Identify the time period when a piece of music was composed (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Early 20^th century, mid 20^th century, late 20^th century - early 21^st century)
Identify elements in music from Europe and the Americas that reflect the culture of the work’s setting.
Identify elements in newer music from Europe and the Americas which reflect a culture outside of the Western tradition.
Create written documents that employ Standard English spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalization.
Communicate orally and/or in writing key elements of musical structure of a piece of music.

MUS 102- World Music

Identify characteristics of music from each region or music culture covered by the course, as well as specific musical examples by country or region, including typical instruments, and forms.
Synthesize evaluation of melodic and rhythmic elements through practical application.
Identify how music is rooted in each society and evaluate how it may influence changes in the culture and society.
Evaluate music from different countries and trace the musical heritage of the people.
Trace connecting influences of world music on contemporary music in the student’s own communities.
Create written documents that employ Standard English spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalization.

MUS 103- Introduction to American Music

Evaluate music from different regions in the United States and trace the musical heritage of the people.
Analyze melodic, rhythmic and harmonic elements and forms of the music.
Trace connecting influences from earlier styles of American music in order to understand the roots of contemporary music.
Identify elements in American music from diverse ethnic and regional backgrounds.
Create written documents that employ Standard English spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization.
Express through written essays the historical understanding of musical styles and how they relate to societal traditions, as well as identify connections between the student’s own musical and cultural links with the past and with other cultures.

MUS 106- Introduction to the Music Business

Analyze the process by which music goes from a creative work to a salable commodity and the common ways it is bought and sold on the open market.
Define the roles of key careers in the industry such as songwriter/composer, recording artist, producer, publisher, promoter, artist manager, and listener.
Identify the legal fundamentals of published and recorded music, including copyright law basics as they apply to musical works.
Explore the changing nature of technology in the process of experiencing, promoting, buying and selling music.
Articulate some of the value systems and ethical challenges inherent in an industry that blends the often opposing interests of art and commerce.

MUS 110- Music Theory I

Analyze written music for pitch, intervals, rhythmic and metrical patterns, chords and their positions.
Interpret and reproduce orally and in notation rhythm and meter from dictation.
Utilize all major and minor keys in writing scales and triads.
Analyze and write triads in root position, first inversion, and second inversion.

MUS 120- Introduction to Music Technology

Demonstrate functional fluency with the audio software (such as Sonar, Reason) and engraving software (for example, Finale), and the capacity to successfully utilize a series of techniques involving the use of classic editing techniques, sound synthesis, sampling, MIDI, and mixing, in order to realize creative goals and produce new work.
Utilize the knowledge of the fundamental properties of sound, including behavior, production, perception, reproduction, and synthesis when creating new electronic works.
Demonstrate fundamental knowledge of the history of electronic music and music technology through familiarity with a selection of historically and technologically important canonic works.
Analyze and critically discuss works from the canon, given a new set of vocabulary and strategies with which to do so.
Evaluate how technology influences the production and performance of various forms of music.

MUS 130- Applied Piano for Beginners

Demonstrate the basic techniques necessary to play the piano, such as playing with a good hand position, accuracy and musicianship.
Identify fundamental musical terms and demonstrate basic music reading knowledge, such as relating lines and spaces on the treble and bass clefs to the piano keyboard and reading rhythmic note and rest values correctly.
Perform for your classmates.
Persist with ongoing assignments that require multiple steps for completion-reading the music, coordinating both hands, following the dynamics and phrasing indicated by the composer.

MUS 131- Applied for Guitar for Beginners

Demonstrate proper guitar playing posture and healthy placement of both right and left hands.
Identify notes in the first position (frets 1-4) from first string to sixth string and demonstrate sight-reading ability for short melodies.
Transition from playing single melodic lines to polyphonic music with the use of elementary guitar repertoire.
Demonstrate fingerstyle classical guitar technique including rest stroke, free stroke, blocked chords, arpeggios, and PIMA finger independence.
Identify rudimentary major and minor chord/scale structures through technical exercises and score study.
Utilize guitar ensemble repertoire to develop rhythm, dynamics, tone, teamwork, and overall musicianship.
Prepare at least one classical guitar piece for performance through multi-step process from note reading, score study, memorization, to performance.

MUS 132- Voice I

Vocalize and practice independently
Improve their ability to sing in tune
Explain and employ good breathing techniques
Perform a song with focus and poise
Demonstrate understanding of vocal registers
Analyze and interpret varied styles of songs

MUS 134- World Drumming

Analyze the written language of music through the multi-step process of considering the time signature and basic rhythms.
Demonstrate the ability to work (practice) consistently away from the college on their own– every day, as well as to demonstrate the ability to focus on the task at hand both during the practice sessions at home and during class time lessons and practice.
Control nervousness so that they can perform in front of the class and in the final group performance
Create written documents that employ Standard English spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalization.
Identify rhythms in music from various regions in the world and compare and contrast percussion music from different countries

MUS 160- Music Theory II

Notate and identify key signatures of all major and minor keys.
Notate and analyze diatonic triads and seventh chords in all voicings and positions.
Compose and analyze harmonic progressions in four voices (SATB) following voice-leading rules.
Compose various types of cadences in four voices. (SATB)
Identify and analyze the components of musical periods and sentences.

MUS 170- Music Technology II

Demonstrate fluency with the audio software (such as Reason, Sonar, SPEAR) and the capacity to successfully utilize a series of techniques involving the use of classic editing techniques, sound synthesis, sampling, MIDI, mixing, beatmaking, and spectrographic analysis in order to realize creative goals and produce new work.
Utilize the knowledge of the history of electronic music and music technology to conduct analyses of new works.
Demonstrate familiarity with a selection of historically and technologically important styles, scenes, and movements.
Apply the knowledge of the fundamental dynamics of music cognition to effectively shape sounds and spatialize electronic works.
Analyze and critically discuss works from the canon at a higher-than-average level, both technically as well as critically.
Continue to cultivate and develop compositional and arranging capabilities, applicable both within the context of the course, as well as in various other arenas of practice and production.
Demonstrate a deep understanding of how technology influences the production and performance of various forms of music, and how professionals, such as a producers and practitioners, may use their technical ability to their advantage

MUS 180- Beginning Piano II

Demonstrate the development of an increasingly more fluent technique necessary to play the piano, such as playing all of the major scales, ability to use both hands independently and increasing speed and accuracy.
Read music at an increasingly more complicated level, including the use of key signatures, accidentals and more complex rhythmic values.
Perform for your classmates.
Persist with increasingly difficult assignments that require multiple steps for completion-reading the music, coordinating both hands, following the dynamics and phrasing indicated by the composer.

MUS 181- Guitar II

Utilize healthy posture and technique for fingerstyle, classical guitar.
Sight read all notes in the first position (frets 1 - 4) and proficiently identify and read notes up to the 12^th position.
Build and perform a set of individual, solo repertoire for performance.
Demonstrate accuracy and comfort in ensemble repertoire. Notes, rhythms, and dynamics all prepared before practice performing effectively together as part of an ensemble.
Memorize major and minor scales for all key signatures up to two sharps.
Perform at least one solo and all class ensemble works for final recital.

MUS 182- Voice II

Vocalize and practice increasingly difficult songs independently
Explain and employ good breathing techniques
Demonstrate understanding of vocal registers
Analyze and interpret varied styles of songs
Sing in a small ensemble
Perform a song in a foreign language

MUS 184- World Drumming

Analyze the increasingly more complex written language of music through the multi-step process of considering the time signature and more complicated rhythms.
Demonstrate the ability to work (practice) consistently away from the college on their own– every day, as well as to demonstrate the ability to focus on the task at hand both during the practice sessions at home and during class time lessons and practice.
Control nervousness so that they can perform in front of the class and in the final group performance
Create written documents that employ Standard English spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalization.
Identify rhythms in music from various regions in the world and compare and contrast percussion music from different countries
Prepare at least one solo with the drumming ensemble in the final performance

MUS 230- Piano III

Demonstrate the development of an increasingly more advanced technique necessary to play the piano, such as playing all of the major scales and some harmonic minor scales, ability to use both hands independently and increasing speed and accuracy.
Read music at an increasingly more complicated level, including the use of most key signatures, accidentals, and more complex rhythmic values
Begin to use the una corda and sustaining pedals on the piano when playing pieces which demand them.
Perform for your classmates.
Persist with increasingly difficult assignments that require multiple steps for completion—reading the music, coordinating both hands, following the dynamics and phrasing indicated by the composer, bringing out different lines of music.

MUS 280- Piano IV

Demonstrate the development of a more advanced technique necessary to play the piano, such as playing all of the major scales and all harmonic minor scales, ability to use both hands independently and in counterpoint, and increasing speed and accuracy.
Read music at an increasingly more complicated level, including the use of any key signature, accidentals, more complex rhythmic values and some atonal music, which has no sense of a key.
Consistently use the una corda and sustaining pedals on the piano when playing pieces which demand them.
Perform for your classmates.
Persist with increasingly difficult assignments that require multiple steps for completion—reading the music, coordinating both hands, following the dynamics and phrasing indicated by the composer, bringing out different lines of music, sometimes played by the same hand.