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Courses - Summer 2024
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MUSC102B
Class Piano
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Credits: 2
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
Functional piano training for beginners. Development of techniques for school and community playing. Basic piano techniques; chord, arpeggio and scale techniques; melody and song playing; simple accompaniments, improvisation for accompaniments and rhythms; sight reading and transposition and playing by ear.
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MUSC140
Music Fundamentals I
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Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
GenEd: DSSP
Restriction: Must not be in any of the following programs (Music (Professional Program); Music Education).
Introductory theory course. Notation, scales, intervals, triads, rhythm, form and basic aural skills.
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MUSC204
Popular Music in Black America
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Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
GenEd: DSHU, DVUP
Traces black popular music in the U.S. with a special focus on spirituals, ragtime, the blues, early jazz, R&B, Motown, funk, soul, and rap. Examines how these styles have been borrowed by the American music industry.
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MUSC205
History of Popular Music, 1950-Present
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Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
GenEd: DSHU, DVUP
A historical survey of rock music (blues, rock, soul, metal, rap, etc.) from circa 1950 to the present, with emphasis on popular music as music and popular music as social history.
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MUSC388
(Perm Req)
Music Internship
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Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg
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MUSC389
(Perm Req)
Music Internship Analysis; Music Internship Analysis
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Credits: 1
Grad Meth: Reg
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MUSC448
(Perm Req)
Selected Topics in Music
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Credits: 1 - 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
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MUSC499
(Perm Req)
Independent Studies
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Credits: 1 - 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
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MUSC699
Selected Topics in Music
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Credits: 1 - 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
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MUSC699U
Selected Topics in Music; Music Theory Pedagogy in the 21st Century
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Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud, S-F
Prerequisites: MUSC 150, 151, 250, 251, 450; a completed undergraduate degree in music; OR permission from instructor.

Course will be taught online for the majority of duration, with one or two in-person meetings at the end of the term.
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MUSC799
(Perm Req)
Master's Thesis Research
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Credits: 1 - 6
Grad Meth: S-F
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MUSC898
Pre-Candidacy Research
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Credits: 1 - 8
Grad Meth: Reg
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MUSC899
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Doctoral Dissertation Research
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Credits: 1 - 6
Grad Meth: S-F
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