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ANR 210 - Pathways in Integrated Learning

Active, self-directed, and reflective learning associated with agriculture and natural resource issues, self and social development, and ethical choice making. Development of a learning plan and design of a learning portfolio. Individual and group presentations.

Average Grade - 3.670
Median Grade - 4.0
44 total students

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MUS 178 - Music Theory For Non Music Majors I

Basic components of both written and aural music. No previous musical knowledge assumed.

Average Grade - 3.640
Median Grade - 4.0
118 total students

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MUS 180 - Fundamentals of Music

Conceptual and notational presentation of the basic components of musical structure.

Average Grade - 3.253
Median Grade - 3.5
270 total students

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MUS 181 - Musicianship I

Hierarchical musical structure through species counterpoint and figured bass. Linear and vertical aspects of tonality.

Average Grade - 3.099
Median Grade - 3.5
506 total students

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MUS 182 - Ear Training and Sight Singing I

Dictation, melody singing using solfege (movable do) syllables, intervals to octave, error detection, quarter note values in rhythm, part singing.

Average Grade - 3.114
Median Grade - 3.5
654 total students

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MUS 183 - Ear Training and Sight Singing II

Dictation, singing melodies in major and minor keys. Simple modulation, chromatic alteration, error detection, rhythms, triads and components, part singing.

Average Grade - 3.250
Median Grade - 3.5
437 total students

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MUS 187 - Skills in Music Theory

Fundamental skills in music theory including pitch notation, rhythmic notation, keys and key signatures, scales, intervals, transposition, triads, seventh chords, and shorthands for representing chords.

Average Grade - 2.840
Median Grade - 3.5
81 total students

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MUS 200 - Music Theory Review

Review of elements of music theory, with emphasis on voice-leading and harmonic analysis in diatonic and chromatic music.

Average Grade - 3.496
Median Grade - 3.5
232 total students

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MUS 201 - Aural Skills Review

Review of ear training in the areas of melody, harmony, and rhythm and sight singing using the solfege system. Computer-aided drill programs.

Average Grade - 3.780
Median Grade - 4.0
25 total students

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MUS 280 - Musicianship II

Techniques of diatonic modulation and soprano harmonization. Chromatic techniques.

Average Grade - 3.032
Median Grade - 3.5
653 total students

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MUS 281 - Musicianship III

Research base for formal categorization. Large-scale principles of musical organization. Chromatic substitution and chords derived from voice-leading.

Average Grade - 3.305
Median Grade - 3.5
271 total students

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MUS 282 - Advanced Ear Training and Sight Singing I

Dictation including recognition of triads, functions, cadences, seventh-chord harmonies, chord components. Two-and four-part dictation and singing.

Average Grade - 3.184
Median Grade - 3.5
567 total students

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MUS 283 - Advanced Ear Training and Sight Singing II

Recognition of harmonic functions in major keys, minor keys, and modulations. Dictation in two-and four-part textures including augmented-sixth chords and nonharmonic tones.

Average Grade - 3.383
Median Grade - 4.0
387 total students

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MUS 380 - Musical Styles and Forms

Form in pre-20th century Western music. Stylistic analysis of representative medieval, renaissance, baroque, and 18th and 19th century compositions.

Average Grade - 3.358
Median Grade - 3.5
123 total students

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MUS 381 - 20th Century Music Theory (W)

Western art music and jazz. Stylistic and formal analysis of representative compositions and jazz improvisations. Post-tonal theory. Jazz nomenclature and harmonic practice.

Average Grade - 3.235
Median Grade - 3.5
459 total students

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MUS 480 - Counterpoint

Creative and analytical work with two-and three-part counterpoint in the style of J.S. Bach.

Average Grade - 3.076
Median Grade - 3.5
117 total students

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MUS 484 - Instrumentation and Basic Orchestration

Four families of orchestral instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Acoustics, notation, range, articulation, dynamics, technique, and timbre for individual instruments and orchestral sections.

Average Grade - 3.393
Median Grade - 3.5
14 total students

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MUS 867 - Practical Keyboard Musicianship

Transposition, melody harmonization, realization and reduction of open scores, basic improvisation, and playing from various kinds of shorthands. Skills that facilitate musicianship in the classroom.

Average Grade - 3.917
Median Grade - 4.0
30 total students

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MUS 868 - Topics in Music Analysis

Methods of analysis pertinent to a specific set of musical repertoire.

Average Grade - 3.770
Median Grade - 4.0
152 total students

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MUS 869 - Tonal Counterpoint

Creative and analytical work with two-and three-part counterpoint in the style of J.S. Bach.

Average Grade - 3.675
Median Grade - 4.0
168 total students

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MUS 870 - Advanced Modal Counterpoint

Techniques of voice-leading through imitative counterpoint. Compositional exercises modeled after sacred vocal polyphony of the sixteenth century, principally Palestrina and Victoria.

Average Grade - 3.875
Median Grade - 4.0
12 total students

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MUS 871 - Advanced Tonal Counterpoint

Compositional exercises modeled after instrumental polyphony of the eighteenth century, principally J.S. Bach. Influence of fugal technique in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Average Grade - 3.829
Median Grade - 4.0
85 total students

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MUS 872 - Tonal Forms

Music from the period of common practice and its relationship to music composition. Interplay of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre in various structural units.

Average Grade - 3.679
Median Grade - 4.0
326 total students

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MUS 873 - Post-Tonal Techniques

Melodic, harmonic, motivic, rhythmic, and textural devices employed in music after 1900.”

Average Grade - 3.804
Median Grade - 4.0
199 total students

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MUS 874 - Schenkerian Analysis

Thought, works, and influences of Heinrich Schenker. Techniques of linear analysis emphasizing the role of long-range voice-leading musical structure.

Average Grade - 3.910
Median Grade - 4.0
61 total students

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MUS 875 - Analysis of Musical Scores

Analysis of choral, orchestral, and band music as a means of enhancing interpretation and performance.

Average Grade - 3.990
Median Grade - 4.0
105 total students

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MUS 876 - Keyboard Skills and Practical Musicianship

Playing and transposition of cadences, prolongations, sequences, and other idiomatic progressions. Elementary figured-bass realization and melody harmonization. Score reading at the keyboard, including in C-clefs. Stylistic improvisation. Functional keyboard skills for usage in teaching, studying, performing, memorizing, composing, and improvising music.

Average Grade - 4.000
Median Grade - 4.0
27 total students

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MUS 877 - Scoring for Orchestra and Band

Theory and practice in scoring for orchestra and band.

Average Grade - 3.807
Median Grade - 4.0
83 total students

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MUS 879 - Tonal Literature and Analysis

Analytical approaches to representative works from the tonal literature.

Average Grade - 3.722
Median Grade - 4.0
101 total students

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MUS 891 - Special Topics

Special topics supplementing regular course offerings proposed by faculty on a group study basis for graduate students.

Average Grade - 3.961
Median Grade - 4.0
38 total students

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MUS 971 - Pedagogy of Theory II

Organization, goals, and procedures for teaching second-year and advanced music theory. Includes form, technology, and counterpoint.

Average Grade - 3.957
Median Grade - 4.0
23 total students

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MUS 973 - Readings in Music Theory

Exploration of current research trends in music theory. Critical readings of published articles and books. Formulation of independent research projects culminating in a term paper similar in scope to a conference presentation or article.

Average Grade - 4.000
Median Grade - 4.0
47 total students

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MUS 976 - Performance and Analysis

Exploration of how analysis can inform a performer's interpretative decisions and expressive choices.

Average Grade - 3.836
Median Grade - 4.0
58 total students

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MUS 978 - Analysis of Contemporary Music

Survey of analytical approaches to contemporary classical music

Average Grade - 3.917
Median Grade - 4.0
96 total students

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MUS 979 - Proseminar in Music Theory

Survey of current research areas and publications in the music-theoretic discipline.

Average Grade - 4.000
Median Grade - 4.0
22 total students

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