Course Descriptions

MUS 145 - Theory 2

• Apply fundamental concepts through written comprehension of clefs, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, seventh chords, figured bass, phrase structure, and cadence types.
• Demonstrate the fundamentals of harmonic function and progression.
• Identify a variety of rhythmic patterns.
• Write major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, realize figured bass, diagram phrase structure, and cadence types.

MUS 145A - Aural Skills 2

• Apply fundamental concepts through aural comprehension and identification of clefs, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, seventh chords, figured bass, phrase structure, and cadence types.
• Notate short melodic and harmonic diatonic dictation exercises.
• Perform a variety of rhythmic patterns at sight.
• Sing, using solfege, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and short tonal melodies.

MUS 146 - Theory 3

• Apply fundamental concepts through written comprehension of clefs, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, seventh chords, figured bass, and cadence types.
• Demonstrate the fundamentals of harmonic function and progression.
• Apply fundamental concepts through written comprehension of non-chord tones (embellishing tones), resolution of dominant seventh chords, diatonic seventh chords, phrase structure, and texture types.

MUS 146A - Aural Skills 3

• Apply fundamental concepts through aural comprehension and identification of clefs, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, seventh chords, figured bass, and cadence types.
• Apply fundamental concepts through aural comprehension and identification of non-chord tones (embellishing tones), resolution of dominant seventh chords, diatonic seventh chords, and texture types.
• Perform a variety of rhythmic patterns at sight.
• Sing, using solfege, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and short tonal melodies.
• Notate short melodic and harmonic diatonic dictation exercises.

MUS 152A - Class Piano I

• Demonstrate knowledge of clefs, note reading, hand position, posture, score markings, and basic terminology related to beginning piano students.
• Be able to play standard scales with correct fingering.
• Demonstrate proficiency of reading skills, technique, and rhythm through assigned beginning solo repertoire.
• Demonstrate basic transposition skills of beginning level excerpts.
• Be able to demonstrate basic harmonic progressions as presented in concurrent music theory class.
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic theoretical concepts through keyboard applications.

MUS 153A - Class Piano II

• Demonstrate knowledge of clefs, note reading, hand position, posture, score markings, and basic terminology related to beginning/intermediate piano students.
• Be able to play standard scales with correct fingering.
• Demonstrate proficiency of reading skills, technique, and rhythm through assigned beginning/intermediate solo repertoire.
• Demonstrate basic transposition skills of beginning/intermediate level excerpts.
• Be able to demonstrate basic harmonic progressions as presented in concurrent music theory class.
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic theoretical concepts through keyboard applications.

MUS 154 - Class Instruction

MUS 154A - Class Piano III

• Demonstrate knowledge of clefs, note reading, hand position, posture, score markings, and basic terminology related to intermediate piano students.
• Play standard scales with correct fingering.
• Demonstrate proficiency of reading skills, technique, and rhythm through assigned intermediate solo repertoire.
• Demonstrate basic transposition skills of intermediate level excerpts.
• Demonstrate basic harmonic progressions as presented in concurrent music theory class.
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic theoretical concepts through keyboard applications.

MUS 154B - Class Voice for the Non-major

• Properly use vocal and musical terminology and skills related to the study of voice.
• Sing with confidence and poise.
• Demonstrate command of beginning vocal skills.
• Demonstrate various approaches to the fundamentals of vocal technique: breathing, resonance and articulation in their own singing.
• Identify their range and demonstrate beginning mastery of the vocal registers.
• Demonstrate fundamental concepts of diction: vowel formation, legato singing and free articulation of consonants.

MUS 164 - Major Applied Area (Individual Instruction)

• Demonstrate musicianship through the artistic mastery of the instrument.
• Acquire beginning pedagogical knowledge of the instrument.
• Demonstrate beginning/intermediate proficiency in rhythm, sight-reading, and style.
• Acquire knowledge and develop beginning/intermediate performance ability through the study of basic literature of the instrument appropriate to the level of study.

MUS 171 - Secondary Applied Area (Individual Instruction)

MUS 171A - Secondary Applied Area Piano

MUS 198 - Special Topics

MUS 210 - Vocal Jazz Choir

• Demonstrate characteristic jazz tone quality on their instruments and voices.
• Demonstrate characteristic jazz phrasing and style on their instruments and voices.
• Work together to create a cohesive group sound with an overall high quality artistic, emotional and technical impact.
• Perform a wide variety of music composed and arranged for the vocal jazz ensemble.
• Improvise in a vocal jazz ensemble setting, including musical interaction within the ensemble.

MUS 211 - Women’s Choir

MUS 213 - Flute Choir

MUS 214 - Brass Choir

MUS 215 - Chamber Orchestra

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including
• Improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 217 - Chamber Music Ensemble

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including
• Improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 218 - Jazz Combo

• Direct jazz combo rehearsals, using efficient and productive rehearsal techniques and performance practices.
• Rehearse and perform literature from the jazz combo genre in a variety of styles.
• Create high quality written and head arrangements of the music they are rehearsing for performance.
• Produce a high quality performance of their combo repertoire.
• Improvise in a jazz combo setting, including musical interaction within the ensemble.

MUS 220 - Composition 2

• Identify forms and structural elements in compositions including: form, phrase structure, modulations, and transitions.
• Aurally identify, discuss, and analyze formal structures of a composition including: form, key centers, modulation, secondary functions, tonicization, chromaticism, change or orchestration, transitions, types of modulation, and compositional techniques.
• Identify the performance practice of certain composers.
• Recognize the “voice” certain composers exemplify in their music and understand what characterizes such a voice and find ways to begin to create their own “voice.”
• Incorporate terminology/techniques pertaining to melodic development, form, structure, harmony, style, and compositional ·techniques.
• Compose original works incorporating theoretical knowledge while developing a creative and unique “voice.”
• Demonstrate proficiency of notation software such as Finale or Sibelius.

MUS 228 - Men’s Choir

MUS 229 - Percussion Ensemble

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including
• Improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 232 - Big Band

• Demonstrate characteristic jazz tone quality on their instruments.
• Demonstrate characteristic jazz phrasing and style on their instruments.
• Work together to create a cohesive group sound with an overall high quality artistic, emotional and technical impact.
• Perform a wide variety of music composed and arranged for the jazz big band.
• Improvise in a jazz big band setting, including musical interaction within the ensemble.

MUS 235 - Laboratory Choir

MUS 240 - Diction in Singers I (Intro to IPA, Italian, Latin, English)

• Identify the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Execute the physical movements necessary to produce the sounds symbolized by the IPA symbols used in Italian, Latin and English.
• Transcribe Italian, Latin and English texts in correct IPA symbols using standard rules of pronunciation.
• Read aloud and sing the sounds of the standard musical forms of those languages (Italian, English, and Latin) from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Translate Italian and Latin texts word for word using a combination of rudimentary grammar rules, a dictionary, and a poetic translation when available.
• Identify mispronunciations and poorly produced phonetic sounds in Italian, Latin and English song literature.

MUS 241 - Diction for Singers 2 (Advanced IPA and German)

• Identify the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet with the addition of sounds particular to German pronunciation.
• Execute the physical movements necessary to produce the sounds symbolized by the IPA symbols used in German.
• Transcribe German texts in correct IPA symbols using standard rules of pronunciation.
• Read aloud and sing the sounds of the standard musical forms of German from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Translate German texts word for word using a combination of rudimentary grammar rules, a dictionary, and a poetic translation when available.
• Identify mispronunciations and poorly produced phonetic sounds in German song literature.

MUS 242 - Diction for Singers 3 (Advanced IPA and French)

• Identify the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet with the addition of sounds particular to French pronunciation.
• Execute the physical movements necessary to produce the sounds symbolized by the IPA symbols used in French.
• Transcribe French texts in correct IPA symbols using standard rules of pronunciation.
• Read aloud and sing the sounds of the standard musical forms of French from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Translate French texts word for word using a combination of rudimentary grammar rules, a dictionary, and a poetic translation when available.
• Identify mispronunciations and poorly produced phonetic sounds in French song literature.

MUS 244 - Theory 4

• Identify secondary function chords, diatonic modulatory techniques, and tradition forms.
• Demonstrate the fundamentals of part-writing harmonic function and progression.
• Perform a variety of rhythmic patterns at sight.
• Sing, using solfege, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and short chromatic tonal melodies.
• Notate short melodic and harmonic dictation exercises (chromatic).
• Apply concepts through both written and aural comprehension of non-chord tones (embellishing tones), resolution of dominant seventh chords, diatonic seventh chords, and texture types.

MUS 245 - Theory 5

• Identify (both written and aural) and analyze elements of chromatic harmony including secondary function chords, diatonic modulatory techniques, and enharmonic modulations.
• Demonstrate the fundamentals of part-writing, harmonic function and progression.
• Perform a variety of rhythmic patterns at sight.
• Sing, using solfege, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and short chromatic tonal melodies that include modulation.
• Notate short melodic and harmonic dictation exercises (chromatic).
• Identify (both written and aural) and analyze elements of chromatic harmony including borrowed chords, Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords, extended chords, altered chords, and chromatic mendicants.

MUS 246 - Theory 6

• Identify (both written and aural) and analyze elements of chromatic harmony and non-traditional harmony including extended chords, altered chords, enharmonic techniques, and chromatic mendicants.
• Identify complex rhythmic devices, modes, synthetic scales, vertical sonorities, compositional techniques.
• Perform a variety of rhythmic patterns at sight including simple, compound and asymmetrical meters.
• Be able to sing, using solfege, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and short chromatic tonal melodies that include modulation and atonal melodies.
• Be able to notate short melodic and harmonic dictation exercises (chromatic).
• Identify (both written and aural) impressionistic, neoclassical, serial, and other significant (20^th/21^st c. composers, styles, and compositional techniques.
• Identify and analyze pitch class sets, interval vectors, and 12-tone compositions.

MUS 252D - Class Instrumental Methods: Double Reeds

• Play the oboe and bassoon at a beginning student level.
• Start a beginning student on the oboe or bassoon and be able to demonstrate basic techniques of each instrument to the student.
• Notice/fix problems of oboe and bassoon students through the high school level as well as in an individual lesson.
• Demonstrate knowledge of standard teaching materials and accessories (i.e. reeds, neck and seat straps, repair tools, etc.) for the oboe and bassoon.

MUS 253C - Class Instrumental Methods Strings I

MUS 253D - Class Instrumental Methods Woodwinds I

MUS 253E - Class Instrumental Methods Brass I

MUS 253G - Class Instrumental Methods Percussion I

MUS 254B - Class Vocal Methods

• Properly use vocal and musical terminology and skills related to the study of voice.
• Sing with confidence and poise in all areas of their musical studies and future teaching.
• Demonstrate command of beginning vocal skills.
• Demonstrate fundamental concepts of diction: vowel formation, legato singing and free articulation of consonants.

MUS 254C - Class Instrumental Methods Strings II

MUS 254D - Class Instrumental Methods Woodwinds II

MUS 254E - Class Instrumental Methods Brass II

MUS 255 - Jazz Harmony and Keyboard

• Demonstrate jazz and popular chord voicings on the keyboard.
• Demonstrate jazz and popular bass lines on the keyboard.
• Demonstrate chord progressions and chord patterns on the keyboard.

MUS 261 - Opera Workshop

• Prepare an operatic role musically, including professional preparation expectations and the proper musical style for the period and genre.
• Prepare a role dramatically, including character study and preparation as well as stage protocol and execution.
• Integrate their musical and dramatic preparation into practical performance experience in the final culminating performances.
• Participate in all aspects of opera production, including building sets and costumes, running stage equipment and using proper stage procedure.

MUS 262 - Opera Production

• Prepare a choral or small operatic role musically, including professional preparation expectations and the proper musical style for the period and genre.
• Prepare a role dramatically, including character study and preparation as well as stage protocol and execution.
• Integrate their musical and dramatic preparation into practical performance experience in the final culminating performances.
• Participate in all aspects of opera production, including building sets and costumes, running stage equipment and using proper stage procedure.

MUS 264 - Major Applied Area (Individual Instruction)

• Demonstrate musicianship through the artistic mastery of the instrument
• Acquire beginning/intermediate pedagogical knowledge of the instrument
• Demonstrate intermediate proficiency in rhythm, sight-reading, and style
• Acquire knowledge and develop intermediate performance ability through the study of basic literature of the instrument appropriate to the level of study

MUS 266 - Wind Ensemble

MUS 267 - Choir

MUS 268 - Chamber Choir

MUS 269 - Symphonic Winds

• Develop individual creative and interpretive skills in a group environment.
• Interpret music in the collaborative atmosphere of ensemble and section settings.
• Demonstrate leadership and team working skills required when performing in a music ensemble with others.
• Employ and improve musical and technical skills through ensemble and sectional rehearsal and the individual practice of parts.

MUS 271 - Secondary Applied Area (Individual Instruction)

MUS 277 - Orchestra

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including
• Improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 287 - Marching and Concert Band

MUS 288 - Symphonic Band

MUS 292 - Accompanying Practicum

MUS 296 - Individual Study

MUS 298 - Special Topics

MUS 299 - Seminar

MUS 300 - Recital Performance

• Demonstrate performance mastery of appropriate repertoire for MUS 364 applied studies.
• Demonstrate technical proficiency and artistry appropriate to MUS 364 level repertoire.
• Demonstrate skills necessary for adequate preparation of recital.

MUS 320 - Composition 3

• Identify forms and structural elements in compositions including: form, phrase structure, modulations, and transitions.
• Aurally identify, discuss, and analyze formal structures of a composition including: form, key centers, modulation, secondary functions, tonicization, chromaticism, change of orchestration, transitions, types of modulation, and compositional techniques.
• Identify the performance practice of certain composers.
• Recognize the “voice” certain composers exemplify in their music and understand what characterizes such a voice and find ways to begin to create their own “voice”.
• Incorporate terminology/techniques pertaining to melodic development, form, structure, harmony, style, and compositional techniques.
• Compose original works incorporating theoretical knowledge while developing a creative and unique “voice”.
• Demonstrate proficiency of notation software such as Finale or Sibelius.

MUS 323 - Choral Music Education

MUS 325 - Instrumental Music Education

MUS 326 - Music in the Classroom (Put on reserve 9/16/17)

MUS 329 - General Music Methods

• Research issues regarding the general music classroom through professional journals and texts.
• Apply current music education trends regarding content and construction to practical classroom application.
• Recognize the musical behavior associated with the development and ability of children.
• Recognize and utilize classroom management techniques.
• Formulate and articulate a rationale for music education in the K-12 environment.
• Incorporate major topics and current issues in music education.

MUS 340 - Form and Analysis

• Recognize, define, and apply standard music vocabulary related to form and style analysis.
• Listen actively to music, especially as related to their field of study.
• Demonstrate a mastery of score reading through the recognition of musical syntax, structural elements, and notation details.
• Identify the chronology and development of musical styles.

MUS 341 - Conducting I

MUS 342 - Conducting II

MUS 343 - Counterpoint I

MUS 344 - Theory Review

• Identify aurally and visually intervals, scales, chords, cadences and basic melodies
• Write four part SATB passages from figured bass symbols, including advanced chromatic harmony and correct use of non-chord tones
• Demonstrate knowledge of the basic musical forms and structures
• Analyze a musical score for its attributes which may include harmonic scheme, form, embellishments, texture, cadences, instrumentation, and compositional techniques

MUS 347 - Electronic Music Composition

• Demonstrate a thorough historical understanding of the history of computer music from the Futurists to present-day electronics.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the early history of electronic music (music concrete, rca synthesizer, mook mk3c and tonus arp 2000 synthesizer e.g.) and use this knowledge in the creation of original compositions using modern-day computer music technology.
• Demonstrate competency in software relevant to the study of composition.
• Publicly present original electronic compositions.

MUS 353 - Jazz Improvisation I

• Demonstrate chord/scale relationships on their instrument at an advanced level.
• Aurally recognize, read and write chord/scales at an advanced level.
• Aurally recognize, read and write chord progressions at an advanced level.
• Demonstrate guide tones in all 12 keys on their instrument at an advanced level.
• Transcribe rhythm, melody and harmony at an advanced level.
• Demonstrate transposition of melodies and compressions on their instrument at an advanced level.
• Demonstrate memorization of all assigned jazz standards at an advanced level.
• Demonstrate competent improvisation concepts over chord changes at an advanced level.

MUS 354 - Jazz Improvisation II

• Demonstrate chord/scale relationships on their instrument at an intermediate level.
• Aurally recognize, read and write chord/scales at an intermediate level.
• Aurally recognize, read and write chord progressions at an intermediate level.
• Demonstrate guide tones in all 12 keys on their instrument at an intermediate level.
• Transcribe rhythm, melody and harmony at an intermediate level.
• Demonstrate transposition of melodies and compressions on their instrument at an intermediate level.
• Demonstrate memorization of all assigned jazz standards at an intermediate level.
• Demonstrate competent improvisation concepts over chord changes at an intermediate level.

MUS 355 - Jazz Improvisation III

• Demonstrate chord/scale relationships on their instrument at an advanced level.
• Aurally recognize, read and write chord/scales at an advanced level.
• Aurally recognize, read and write chord progressions at an advanced level.
• Demonstrate guide tones in all 12 keys on their instrument at an advanced level.
• Transcribe rhythm, melody and harmony at an advanced level.
• Demonstrate transposition of melodies and compressions on their instrument at an advanced level.
• Demonstrate memorization of all assigned jazz standards at an advanced level.
• Demonstrate competent improvisation concepts over chord changes at an advanced level.

MUS 356 - Jazz Styles

• Analyze jazz compositions and arrangements in terms of harmonic, rhythmic, and structural elements, as well as historical and cultural context.
• Transcribe parts of jazz compositions and arrangements.
• Compose/arrange short musical examples in the style of various artists/genres.
• Recognize various jazz styles through listening.
• Recognize various jazz styles through written notation.
• Compare and contrast various jazz styles in a critical context using current and historical sources.

MUS 357 - Jazz Composition and Arranging

• Demonstrate reharmonization of standard jazz chord progressions.
• Demonstrate written knowledge of jazz scales and chords.
• Demonstrate analysis skills with chord progressions.
• Demonstrate modification of jazz melodies.
• Demonstrate modification of jazz styles, i.e. change a swing tune into Latin, etc.
• Demonstrate knowledge of instrument ranges and other idiomatic details.
• Demonstrate jazz orchestration technique.
• Demonstrate chart layout technique.

MUS 359 - Survey of Music in Cross-cultural Perspectives

• Discuss and examine specific issues pertaining to the nature of musical creation.
• Define ethnomusicological terms and concepts.
• Identify geographical distribution of musical phenomena and the stratification of music in society.
• Aurally recognize and classify stylistic characteristics and write in a scholarly manner about various ethnic traditions and genres.
• Identify the intellectual, personal, emotional, and political problems associated with intercultural musical contexts.
• Recognize both the diversity and universality of the world’s music.

MUS 364 - Major-applied Area (Individual Instruction)

• Demonstrate musicianship through the artistic mastery of the instrument.
• Acquire intermediate pedagogical knowledge of the instrument.
• Demonstrate intermediate/advanced proficiency in rhythm, sight-reading, and style.
• Acquire knowledge and develop intermediate/advanced performance ability through the study of basic literature of the instrument appropriate to the level of study.

MUS 366 - Applied Jazz (Individual Instruction)

• Steadily and continually develop technical skills on their instrument in the jazz idiom according to the progression on the Jazz Jury Rubric.
• Steadily and continually memorize jazz standards on their instrument in the jazz idiom according to the progression on the Jazz Jury Rubric.
• Steadily and continually develop musical skills on their instrument in the classical idiom according to the progression on the Jazz Jury Rubric.
• Steadily and continually develop jazz vocabulary on their instrument in the jazz idiom through transcribing and performing jazz master improvisations according to the progression on the Jazz Jury Rubric.

MUS 370 - Applied Area (Individual Instruction: Secondary or Major Supplementary)

• Extend technical and musical skill, independently and with instructor assistance, in a secondary performance area OR in their major area supplemental to fulfillment of degree requirements.

MUS 372 - Music History 1

• Identify the different types of music available during the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Baroque periods, either by music score or listening example.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the different musical forms and genres of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Baroque periods, how they evolved, and their relationship within the culture and society of the time.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the primary composers of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Baroque periods.
• Write in a scholarly manner about various styles of music.

MUS 373 - Music History 2

• Identify the different types of music available during the late Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, either by music score or listening example.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the different musical forms and genres of the late Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, how they evolved, and their relationship within the culture and society of the time.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the primary composers of the late Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods.
• Write in a scholarly manner about various styles of music.

MUS 374 - Music History 3

• Identify the different types of music available during the Late Romantic and Modern time periods, either by music score or listening example.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the different musical forms and genres of the Late Romantic and Modern time periods, how they evolved, and their relationship within the culture and society of the time.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the primary composers of the Late Romantic and Modern time periods time period.
• Write in a scholarly manner about various styles of music.

MUS 379 - Philosophy of Music (On reserve as of 9/16/15)

MUS 380 - Music History Review

MUS 382 - Survey of Chamber Music

MUS 383 - Survey of Symphonic Music

MUS 384 - Survey of Choral Music

MUS 385 - Survey of Opera

MUS 386 - Survey of 20th-century Music

MUS 396 - Individual Study

MUS 397 - Honors

MUS 398 - Special Topics

MUS 399 - Seminar

MUS 400 - Recital Performance

• Demonstrate performance mastery of appropriate repertoire for MUS 464 applied studies.
• Demonstrate technical proficiency and artistry appropriate to MUS 464 level repertoire.
• Demonstrate skills necessary for adequate preparation of recital.

MUS 410 - Vocal Jazz Choir

• Demonstrate characteristic jazz tone quality on their instruments and voices.
• Demonstrate characteristic jazz phrasing and style on their instruments and voices.
• Work together to create a cohesive group sound with an overall high quality artistic, emotional and technical impact.
• Perform a wide variety of music composed and arranged for the vocal jazz ensemble.
• Improvise in a vocal jazz ensemble setting, including musical interaction within the ensemble.

MUS 411 - Women’s Choir

• Sing a wide variety of choral literature
• Sing musically and in tune
• Sing in unison, and their own parts amid two, three or four other voice parts
• Sing with healthy vocal technique
• Sing music with historic authenticity

MUS 413 - Flute Choir

MUS 414 - Brass Choir

MUS 415 - Chamber Orchestra

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including
• Improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Demonstrate leadership competencies appropriate to ensemble playing including leading sectionals, understanding the full score and how your part fits into the whole, and nonverbal artistic communication
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 417 - Chamber Music Ensemble

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including
• Improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Demonstrate leadership competencies appropriate to ensemble playing including leading sectionals, understanding the full score and how your part fits into the whole, and nonverbal artistic communication
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 418 - Jazz Combo

• Direct jazz combo rehearsals, using efficient and productive rehearsal techniques and performance practices.
• Rehearse and perform literature from the jazz combo genre in a variety of styles.
• Create high quality written and head arrangements of the music they are rehearsing for performance.
• Produce a high quality performance of their combo repertoire.
• Improvise in a jazz combo setting, including musical interaction within the ensemble.

MUS 420 - Composition 4

• Identify forms and structural elements in compositions including: form, phrase structure, modulations, and transitions.
• Aurally identify, discuss, and analyze formal structures of a composition including: form, key centers, modulation, secondary functions, tonicization, chromaticism, change of orchestration, transitions, types of modulation, and compositional techniques.
• Identify the performance practice of certain composers.
• Recognize the “voice” certain composers exemplify in their music and understand what characterizes such a voice and find ways to begin to create their own “voice.”
• Incorporate terminology/techniques pertaining to melodic development, form, structure, harmony, style, and compositional techniques.
• Compose original works incorporating theoretical knowledge while developing a creative and unique “voice.”
• Demonstrate proficiency of notation software such as Finale or Sibelius.