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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 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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