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• Prerequisite: Audition required.

This course includes rehearsals and performances of the department’s musical theatre production. Dance laboratory is included. *See counselor regarding transfer credit limitations.

• Prerequisite: Audition required.

The jazz vocal ensemble is open to all students, subject to audition standards. Selected vocal students function as a musical ensemble. They prepare and perform vocal music in the jazz and popular idiom.

• Prerequisite: Audition required.

The concert chorale is open to all students, subject to audition standards. The course includes study and performance of major choral works, both a cappella and accompanied.

• Prerequisite: Pre-enrollment audition required.
• Advisory: MUSIC 1 and MUSIC 50B

This course is designed for the advanced vocal student. It includes an introduction to the International Phonetic Association sound symbols and their usage in performance preparation; appropriate stylistic exercise and vocalise techniques; song form analysis; in-depth song preparation techniques; professional standards of conduct when working with other musicians; and advanced stage performance and auditioning techniques. Repertoire from the Classical, Jazz, Musical Theater, and Pop genres will be included. The course will include individual in-class performances and culminate in a final public performance of selected material. Acceptance into the course shall be by audition.

• Prerequisite: Audition required.

The chamber choir studies and performs compositions ranging from the madrigal to contemporary works suitable for smaller ensembles.

• Corequisite: MUSIC 2.
• Advisory: MUSIC 1.

This course provides a study of the diatonic materials of the common practice: triads, seventh chords, root progressions, and the strict discipline of part writing based on the Bach chorale. Also included are cadences, nonchord tones, phrase structure, and modulation to closely related keys. Correlated with Music 2 (Musicianship).

See also MUSIC 66.

Instruction in this course ranges from an introduction to the keyboard to the reading of simple pieces at sight in all major keys. Technical problems, basic music theory, major scales, hand-over-hand arpeggios, simple chording and an introduction to piano literature are stressed.

MUSIC 60A is equivalent to the piano portion of MUSIC 66. Credit may be earned for MUSIC 60A or MUSIC 66 but not both. Access to a piano in good playing condition or a digital piano is required. A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

• Advisory: MUSIC 60A.

A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

Instruction in this course ranges from an introduction to major and harmonic minor scale fingerings, minor key signatures, hand-over-hand arpeggios, triad inversions, primary chord harmonization, sight reading and transposition. Pieces are studied with attention to basic concepts of piano technique and interpretation such as phrasing, tone, touches and dynamics.

• Advisory: MUSIC 60B.

A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

Instruction in this course includes an emphasis on repertoire by master composers with attention to technical approach, interpretation and harmonic analysis. Major and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios and inversions are continued.

• Advisory: MUSIC 60C.

A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

In this course elementary pieces from the standard repertoire of all musical periods are studied with an emphasis on technique, interpretation and harmonic analysis. Keyboard musicianship skills, including major and harmonic minor scales, major and minor arpeggios and chord progressions involving seventh chords and secondary triads, are stressed.

• Advisory: MUSIC 60D.

A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

A study of intermediate level original piano compositions by master composers. Includes technical studies, analysis of literature performed, in-depth instruction on the interpretation of literature performed, major and minor scales (4 octaves, hands together), chord progressions and harmonization.

• Advisory: MUSIC 61A.

A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

A study of upper intermediate and early advanced levels of original piano compositions by master composers. Includes technical studies, analysis of literature performed, in-depth instruction on the interpretation of literature performed, major and minor scales (4 octaves, hands together), chord progressions (including modulation).

• Advisory: MUSIC 61A or equivalent.

A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

A course to develop sight reading (Prima Vista) skills. Intended for students who can play pieces that have been practiced repeatedly (or memorized), but who cannot perform music being seen for the first time with any degree of ease of confidence. Student should have the ability to sight read adequately.

• Advisory: MUSIC 60C or equivalent.

Student must have the ability to sight read adequately. A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

This course is designed for students interested in performing standard literature by master composers for duo piano (2 players/2 pianos), piano duet (2 players/2piano), and piano quartet (4 players/2 pianos). It will cover music written for this medium from the 18th century to the present. There may be an opportunity for a public performance. Students should have the ability to sight read.

• Advisory: MUSIC 60C.

A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

Instruction includes 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords; their voicing and use in jazz standards. Improvisation techniques for jazz, blues, pop, Latin and gospel style are included.

• Advisory: MUSIC 65A.

A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

Continuation and application of material studied in Music 65A, including all 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords, their voicing and use in jazz standards. Improvising techniques for jazz, blues, pop, Latin and gospel styles are included.

See also MUSIC 1 and MUSIC 60A. A limited number of loaner digital pianos are available for use while enrolled in this course.

This course combines the study of the rudiments of music theory with an introduction to the keyboard. Included is the knowledge of music notation, scales, intervals, triads and seventh chords, rhythmic drills and sight singing. Piano studies include technical exercises, major scales, hand-over-hand arpeggios, simple chording and an introduction to piano literature. The fundamentals of music component of this course (or the equivalent) is a prerequisite for all other music theory courses. The piano component (or the equivalent) is a prerequisite for all other piano courses.

MUSIC 66 is equivalent to taking MUSIC 1 and MUSIC 60A. A student taking MUSIC 66 may not earn credit for MUSIC 1 or MUSIC 60A.

• Advisory: MUSIC 61B or equivalent.

This course will focus on the performance of standard keyboard repertoire by major composers of the twentieth century. The composers under study will include Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin, Bartok, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Kabalevsky, Stravinsky, Copland, Barber, Ginastera, and others. This course is designed for upper-intermediate or early advanced pianists.

• Prerequisite: MUSIC 6.

This course continues the study of conventional harmony by introducing secondary dominants, diminished seventh chords, dominant ninth chords, and altered chords such as the Neapolitan, augmented sixth chords, and contemporary chord extensions. The discipline of part writing is continued, and the notions of both permanent and transient modulation are explored. Correlated with Music 3 (Musicianship).

A limited number of loaner instruments are available for use while enrolled in this course.

This course provides instruction in and reinforcement of the basic skills needed to play the instruments of the orchestral string family (violin, viola, cello and bass). Included are hand position, bow hold, fingerings, intonation, and posture.