Music

This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of repertory styles and provide them with an opportunity to practice their individual performance skills. Emphasis is placed on exposure to performances and lectures by guest artists, faculty, and students.

This course is intended for non-music majors and requires no prior musical experience. It serves as a survey course that includes various modes of instruction, such as lectures, guided listening, and similar activities involving music. The course will address at least three stylistic periods, offer a multicultural perspective, and encompass both vocal and instrumental genres. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of music fundamentals, the aesthetic and stylistic characteristics of historical periods, and an aural perception of style and structure in music.

This course introduces students to the diatonic harmonic practices of the Common Practice Period. Topics include fundamental musical materials (rhythm, pitch, scales, intervals, diatonic harmonies) and an introduction to the principles of voice leading and harmonic progression. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate basic competency in using diatonic harmony through analysis, writing, sight-singing, dictation, and keyboard skills.

This course completes the study of diatonic harmonic practices in the Common Practice Period and introduces simple musical forms. Topics include the principles of voice leading used in three- and four-part triadic harmony and diatonic seventh chords, as well as non-chord tones, cadences, phrases, and periods. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate competence in using diatonic harmony through analysis, writing, sight singing, dictation, and keyboard skills.

This course provides the practical application of basic musical materials through sight singing; melodic, harmonic and rhythmic dictation and keyboard harmony. Topics include: intervals, simple triads, diatonic stepwise melodies, basic rhythmic patterns in simple and compound meter and four-part triadic progressions in root position. Upon completion, students should be able to write, sing and play intervals, scales, basic rhythmic patterns, diatonic stepwise melodies, simple triads and short four-part progressions in root position.

This course continues the practical application of diatonic musical materials through sight singing; melodic, harmonic and rhythmic dictation and keyboard harmony. Topics include: intervals, scales, diatonic melodies with triadic arpeggiations, more complex rhythmic patterns in simple and compound meter and four-part triadic progressions in all inversions. Upon completion, students should be able to write, sing and play all intervals, rhythmic patterns, employing syncopation and beat divisions, diatonic melodies and four-part diatonic progressions.