Undergraduate Courses

Training in intermediate musicianship skills emphasizing sight-singing and dictation. Course activities are correlated with the materials of harmony and counterpoint for the diatonic, chromatic, and posttonal repertories.

Continued training in elementary musicianship skills.

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis.

Intermediate level aural skills. Courses under this general title introduce students to listening and sight-reading techniques coordinated with topics in the corresponding co-requisite Theory & Practice II course.

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course, Theory & Practice II: Popular Music. This course builds on skills developed in Aural Skills I. Students learn techniques for critically listening to, analyzing, and notating musical elements of instrumentation, sound production and timbre, advanced rhythm and meter, loops and harmonic chord schemas, advanced diatonic harmony, and basic chromatic harmony including secondary functions and modulation.

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course, Theory & Practice II: Tonal Harmony & Voice Leading. This course builds on skills developed in Aural Skills I. Students learn techniques for critically listening to, analyzing, and notating four-part diatonic harmony and basic chromatic harmony including secondary functions and modulation, advanced rhythm and meter, chromatic melodies, and instrumentation.

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course, Theory & Practice II: Tonal Harmony & Voice Leading. This course builds on skills developed in Aural Skills I. Students learn techniques for critically listening to, analyzing, and notating four-part diatonic harmony and basic chromatic harmony including secondary functions and modulation, advanced rhythm and meter, chromatic melodies, and instrumentation.

This course will provide musicians with an opportunity to physically embody music through the form of Baroque dance. Basic Baroque dance steps, phrases & ornamentations, will be learned & examined through the historic relationship between the two art forms of music & dance. An exploration of the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system will then be applied to their own reconstructions & their performances throughout the semester.

Study and performance of chamber music.

Course Repeatable for Credit. Study of standard and contemporary orchestral flute repertoire with focus on solo and sectional playing (open to flute performance majors)

The development of fundamental musical skills and the undestanding through creative application of listening, singing, playing, writing, and analysis. Emphasis on aural development as essential to musical growth. Open to all members of the University community.

The development of fundamental musical skills and the undestanding through creative application of listening, singing, playing, writing, and analysis. Emphasis on aural development as essential to musical growth. Open to all members of the University community.

Review of the essential mathematics for statistics. Collection & tabulation of data; the properties of frequency distributions; histograms; boxplots; measures of central tendency, dispersion & correlation; tests of hypothesis using the normal curve, the T distribution, the F distribution. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Quantitative Reasoning.

Study and performance of chamber music.

A performance class devoted to precise understanding of orchestral excerpts from standard repertoire found on auditions. Students study includes tempo, dynamics, articulation and precision.

An examination of scale fingerings, arpeggios, bowings, articulations & rhythmic patterns through single scales & double stops.

Fundamentals of technique including placement, flexibility, motor skills, & some improvisation.

Fundamentals of ballet technique including special emphasis on placement and utilizing individual anatomical structures most efficiently.

Fundamentals of ballet technique including special emphasis on placement & utilizing individual anatomical structures most efficiently.

Principles and methods of play writing. Completion of several writing assignments is required, including a one-act play. Plays of special merit considered for program production.