MUS 178 Music Theory
For Non Music Majors I
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 1
2(2-1)
Restrictions: Not open to music majors.
Not open to students with credit in: MUS 180
Description: Basic components of both written and aural music.
No previous musical knowledge assumed.
MUS 179 Music Theory
For Non Music Majors II
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1
3(3-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 178 )
Restrictions: Not open to music majors.
Not open to students with credit in: MUS 180 or MUS 181
Description: Common chords and chord progressions, harmonizing
melodies, basic musical forms including some popular and jazz
forms, introductory compositional techniques.
MUS 180 Fundamentals
of Music
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 1
2(2-1)
Description: Conceptual and notational presentation of the
basic components of musical structure. No previous familiarity
with music is assumed.
MUS 181 Musicianship
I
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1
3(3-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 180 )
Description: Hierarchical musical structure through species
counterpoint and figured bass. Linear and vertical aspects of
tonality.
MUS 182 Ear Training
and Sight Singing I
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 1 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1
1(1-1)
Description: Dictation, melody singing using solfege (movable
do) syllables, intervals to octave, error detection, quarter note
values in rhythm, part singing.
MUS 183 Ear Training
and Sight Singing II
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 1 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1
1(1-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 182 )
Description: Dictation, singing melodies in major and minor
keys. Simple modulation, chromatic alteration, error detection,
rhythms, triads and components, part singing.
MUS 200 Introduction
to Music Theory
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 1 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1
1(1-1)
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in the School
of Music.
Description: Elements of music theory, with emphasis on voice-leading
and harmonic analysis in diatonic and chromatic music.
Alias: MUS 800
MUS 201 Aural Skills
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 1 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1
1(1-1)
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in the School
of Music.
Description: Ear training in the areas of melody, harmony,
and rhythm. Sight singing using the solfege system. Computer-aided
drill programs.
Alias: MUS 801
MUS 280 Musicianship
II
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1
3(3-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 181 )
Description: Techniques of diatonic modulation and soprano
harmonization. Chromatic techniques.
MUS 281 Musicianship
III
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1
3(3-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 280 )
Description: Research base for formal categorization. Large-scale
principles of musical organization. Chromatic substitution and
chords derived from voice-leading.
MUS 282 Advanced Ear
Training and Sight Singing I
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 1 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1
1(1-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 183 )
Description: Dictation including recognition of triads, functions,
cadences, seventh-chord harmonies, chord components. Two-and four-part
dictation and singing.
MUS 283 Advanced Ear
Training and Sight Singing II
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 1 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1
1(1-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 282 )
Description: 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.
MUS 380 Musical Styles
and Forms (W)
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1
3(3-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 281 ) and completion of Tier I writing
requirement.
Restrictions: Open only to majors in the School of Music.
Description: Form in pre-20th century Western music. Stylistic
analysis of representative medieval, renaissance, baroque, and
18th and 19th century compositions.
MUS 381 20th Century
Music Theory
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1
3(3-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 380 )
Description: Western art music and jazz. Stylistic and formal
analysis of representative compositions and jazz improvisations.
Post-tonal theory. Jazz nomenclature and harmonic practice.
MUS 480 Counterpoint
Semester: Fall of every year. Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2
2(2-0)
Prerequisite: (MUS 381 )
Restrictions: Open only to majors in the School of Music.
Description: Creative and analytical work with two-and three-part
counterpoint in the style of J.S. Bach.
MUS 484 Instrumentation
and Basic Orchestration
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 1
2(2-1)
Prerequisite: (MUS 380 )
Restrictions: Open only to majors in the School of Music.
Description: Four families of orchestral instruments: strings,
woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Acoustics, notation, range,
articulation, dynamics, technique, and timbre for individual instruments
and orchestral sections.
MUS 870 Contrapuntal
Techniques I
Semester: Fall of odd years.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3
3(3-0)
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in School of
Music.
Description: Techniques of voice-leading through imitative
counterpoint. Compositional exercises modeled after sacred vocal
polyphony of the sixteenth century, principally Palestrina and
Victoria.
MUS 871 Contrapuntal
Techniques II
Semester: Spring of even years.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3
3(3-0)
Prerequisite: MUS 870.
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in School of
Music.
Description: Compositional exercises modeled after instrumental
polyphony of the eighteenth century, principally J.S. Bach. Influence
of fugal technique in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
MUS 872 Tonal Forms
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2
2(2-0)
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in School of
Music.
Description: Music from the period of common practice and
its relationship to music composition. Interplay of melody, harmony,
rhythm, and timbre in various structural units.
MUS 873 Early 20th Century
Techniques
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2
2(2-0)
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in School of
Music.
Description: Melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and textural devices
employed in early twentieth century music.
MUS 874 Schenkerian Analysis
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2
2(2-0)
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in School of
Music.
Description: Thought, works, and influences of Heinrich Schenker.
Techniques of linear analysis emphasizing the role of long-range
voice-leading musical structure.
MUS 875 Analysis of Musical
Scores
Semester: Summer of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3
3(3-0)
Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of
6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in School of
Music.
Description: Analysis of choral, orchestral, and band music
as a means of enhancing interpretation and performance.
MUS 876 History of Music
Theory
Semester: Fall of odd years.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 3
3(3-0)
Prerequisite: MUS 830 recommended.
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in School of
Music.
Description: Principal western theories of music from Pythagoras
to the present. Ideas contributing to the development of modern
musical thought and their place in western intellectual history.
MUS 877 Scoring for Orchestra
and Band
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 1
2(2-1)
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in the School
of Music.
Description: Theory and practice in scoring for orchestra
and band.
MUS 878 Advanced Scoring
for Orchestra and Band
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion
Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 1
2(2-1)
Prerequisite: MUS 877.
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in the School
of Music.
Description: Orchestra scoring from Bach to Boulez and band scoring from
Sousa to Maslanka. Advanced scoring projects.
MUS 883 Advanced Computer Music Projects
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Variable from 1 to 4
Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in
all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite: MUS 882 or MUS 441.
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in School of Music and in Computer
Science.
Description: Techniques and principles of composition and research with
computers. Use of computer hardware and software.
MUS 970 Pedagogy of Music Theory
Semester: Fall of odd years.
Credits: 3
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in the School of Music.
Description: Organization, goals, and procedures for teaching music theory
to undergraduates. Choice and sequencing of topics, pacing, supplementary materials,
educational philosophies, and relevance to performance.