Undergraduate Courses

A performance class geared towards students who are taking auditions for graduate school. Included in the class are two recording sessions to make pre-screen recordings. Readings will include studies on proper breathing and stage presence. The class includes mock audition sessions.

In Aural Comprehension IV the students will continue their exploration of the main elements of music - melody, harmony, rhythm, and form - through active listening, sight-singing, and dictation. Course activities are correlated with materials from Music Theory IV. The tonal material will remain a part of our exercises, but we will work with elements of atonal music and complex rhythms too. Besides regular sight singing, prepared singing, dictations and transcriptions of recorded music we will also listen to orchestral instrumentation, identify musical forms from listening to recordings, try to hear overtones, micro-intervals, improvise second voice to a song and write and sing a short piece of music.

Aural Comprehension III is a one-credit course, building on the foundations you have created in AC I and II. The two weekly class sessions will be devoted to group work in sight-singing and dictation: melodic, rhythmic and harmonic -- and in listening to longer segments of work to sharpen your perception of musical form. You will be expected to keep up a regular practice of these skills outside of class. In addition, we will arrange tutorials (at least three per semester) for individual work and assessment.

The musical materials of AC III will be taken mostly from 19th-century sources,
reinforcing your work in Music Theory and Music History III. We will also work with more chromatic music of the 18th century, as well as jazz, popular music and relevant world cultures.

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.

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing,
dictation, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite
course, Theory and Practice II: Tonal Harmony and 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 and ornamentations, will be learned and examined through the historic relationship between the two art forms of music and dance. An exploration of the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system will then be applied to their own reconstructions and 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 and tabulation of data; the properties of frequency distributions; histograms; boxplots; measures of central tendency, dispersion and 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 and rhythmic patterns through single scales and double stops.

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

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