53 SPRING 2023 925.424.1000 | [email protected] SPRING 2023 - COURSE LISTINGS Please refer to the onl ine schedule on CLASS-Web to access course section detai ls and the course record numbers (CRNs) for registration. It is strongly recommended that students taking this course are enrolled in a calculus course. MUSIC MUS 1 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC 3.0 Units Music for enjoyment and understanding through informed listening, analysis, evaluation and discernment of musical elements, forms, and repertoire. Attendance at concerts and listening to a variety of music may be required. MUS 3 WORLD MUSIC 3.0 Units The study of the folk and art music of world cultures. Includes the traditional music of Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Latin America, Europe, and Native America. Attendance at world music concerts is required. MUS 4 JAZZ IN AMERICAN CULTURE 3.0 Units History, trends, and influences of the phenomenon of jazz through integration of the cultures of (but not limited to) African-American, European-American and the Latin-American communities. Required listening, reading and concert attendance will guide the student to value jazz as a form of selfexpression and improve the ability to listen and understand the various eras in jazz from pre-Dixieland to present day. MUS 5 AMERICAN CULTURES IN MUSIC 3.0 Units Music in twentieth century United States through the study of contributions of three selected groups from the following: African-Americans, Latin-Americans, Asian-Americans, European-Americans, and Native Americans. Emphasis on understanding diverse styles, and on integrating these styles into American music. Concert, religious, and folk-pop music will be included. MUS 6 BASIC MUSIC SKILLS 2.0 Units Essentials of music through notation, time elements, melody, harmony, and tonality, texture, dynamics and knowledge of the keyboard. Sight singing and ear training. MUS 8B THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP 2 4.0 Units Continues diatonic harmony through part writing and ear training exercises as typified by musical practice from 1600 to the present, continues solfeggio, chord recognition, melodic and rhythmic dictation, voice leading involving four -part choral writing, and figured bass realization. Introduces harmonic dictation, cadential elaboration, non-dominant seventh chords, and an introduction to secondary/applied chords and modulation. Prerequisite: MUS 8A with a minimum grade of C Strongly Recommended: MUS 8A, MUS 21A with a minimum grade of C MUS 10B THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP 4 4.0 Units This course incorporates the concepts from Music 10A. In addition, through writing and analysis, the course will include: post-Romantic techniques such as borrowed chords and modal mixture, chromatic mediants, Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords, 9th, 11thand13th chords, altered chords anddominants; and 20th century techniques such as: Impressionism, tone rows, set theory, pandiatonicism and polytonalism, meter and rhythm. This course also applies and develops the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic materials of Mus 10A through ear training, sight singing, analysis, and dictation. Prerequisite: MUS 10A with a minimum grade of C MUS 11 COMMERCIAL MUSIC COMBO 1.0 Units For instrumentalists and vocalists who want experience in performing and interpreting small-group commercial music literature. Emphasis will be on articulations, stylistic differences, composition, arranging, and common performance practices. Strongly Recommended: MUS 18A and MUS 6 with a minimum grade of C Enrollment by audition only. MUS 13 HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL 3.0 Units A cultural survey of original American music traditions, forms and trends influenced by cultural, socio-economic, sociopolitical and economic changes including blues, jazz, early rock, the British Invasion, rap, hip hop culture, Latino rock, heavy metal, jazz-rock fusion, electronic, modern rock, and pop. MUS 14 JAZZ WORKSHOP 1.0 Units Reading, preparation and performance of contemporary jazz music. Opportunity to apply improvisation techniques in a group setting. MUS 15 JAZZ ENSEMBLE 1.0 Units This course is for the study, rehearsal, and public performance of standard jazz ensemble literature, with an emphasis on the development of skills needed to perform within an ensemble. New literature will be studied each term so that different technical and artistic issues are addressed. Opportunities to arrange and compose for the ensemble as well as to conduct. Opportunity to apply improvisation techniques in a group setting. MUS 16 PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 1.0 Units This course is for the study, rehearsal, and public performance of the standard Classical orchestra literature, with an emphasis on the development of skills needed to perform within an ensemble. Different literature is studied each semester so that different technical, historical and artistic issues are addressed. Attendance at all scheduled performances is required. Enrollment by audition only. MUS 17A JAZZ COMBO 1 1.0 Units For instrumentalists who want experience in performing and interpreting small-group literature. The music literature will cover important aspects of jazz band development and works of all styles and periods. Emphasis will be on articulations, stylistic differences, composition, arranging, and common performance practices of the various periods of music. Strongly Recommended: MUS 18A, MUS 6 with a minimum grade of C Enrollment by audition only. MUS 17B JAZZ COMBO 2 1.0 Units For intermediate/advanced instrumentalists who want to continue what they learned in 17A by performing, composing, and arranging small-group literature. Prerequisite: MUS 17A with a minimum grade of C Enrollment by audition only. MUS 18A JAZZ/POP PIANO 1 1.0 Units Voicings, chords, andguidelines for interpretation of lead sheets in a variety of genres for the contemporary pianist. Emphasis Scan here to visit the current Spring 2023 class schedule online
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