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Music Theory & Composition (MUTC)Music Theory and Composition examines musical discourse, integrating composition, improvisation, and analysis. Core courses explore fundamental concepts that apply to genres, styles, and expressions found primarily within the diversity of European-American music: rhythm, intervals, phrase and form, structural levels, voice-leading, harmony, timbre, and notation. Understanding and skill in hearing, reading, sight-singing, writing, improvisation, playing, and analysis are continuously developed throughout the sequence. MUTC 101. Introduction to Music: Reading and Analysis. Study of basic music reading, analysis, and critical listening skills, including fundamental concepts such as rhythm, meter, timbre, pitch, scales, keys, intervals, and chords, alongside the development of basic listening strategies, methods of musical criticism, the nature and significance of personal creativity, and the various roles that music can play in the life of the individual believer and the church. Counts as General Education credit for Liberal Arts students. Offered Spring Semester only. (2) MUTC 111. Music Notation. An introduction to the principles of traditional music notation. Students are taught to notate music accurately and neatly both by hand and via notation software through regular reading and transcription assignments. Prerequisite: The ability to read music. (2, lin).
MUTC 122. Introduction to Composition. Examination of fundamental philosophical, aesthetic, and practical questions relating to life as a composer. Basic exercises in pitch choice and manipulation, rhythmic variety, and concepts of musical form. Prerequisite: MUTC 111 or consent of instructor. (2, lin) MUTC 151. Music Theory I. Music fundamentals and diatonic harmony in repertoire from the Common Practice Period. Topics include pitch notation, rhythmic notation, time signatures, key signatures, scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, Roman-numeral labeling, voice leading, and harmonic functions. Prerequisite: Passing grade on music fundamentals exam, grade of C or higher in MUTC 101, or consent of instructor. (3, lin) MUTC 152. Aural Skills I. Development of analytical listening abilities and sight-reading skills. Prerequisite: The ability to read music. Passing grade on music fundamentals exam, grade of C or higher in MUTC 101, or consent of instructor. (1, lin) MUTC 171. Music Theory II. Chromatic harmony in repertoire from the Common Practice Period. Topics include secondary-function chords, tonicization, modulation, modal mixture, Neapolitan chords, augmented sixth chords, and enharmonicism. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 151 or consent of instructor. (3, lin) MUTC 172. Aural Skills II. Development of analytical listening abilities and sight-reading skills. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 152 or consent of instructor. (1, lin) MUTC 231. Composition I. Introduction to compositional materials and processes through listening, analysis, and imitation of models, followed by freely developed original projects. (2, lin) Prerequisite: MUTC 122 or consent of instructor. MUTC 232. Composition II. Continued emphasis on listening and analysis as a means of expanding musical experiences and compositional options; original works of limited scope. (2, lin) Prerequisite: MUTC 231 or consent of instructor. MUTC 233. Digital Music Technology I. Music sequencing, digital sampling, sound synthesis, and computer music notation using microcomputer based MIDI systems. Emphasis on projects in composition and arranging. (2, lin) MUTC 241. Music Theory III. Large-scale form in repertoire from the Common Practice Period. Topics include binary and ternary forms, vocal forms, variation forms, fugues, rondo forms, and sonata forms. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 171 or consent of instructor. (2, lin) MUTC 251. Music Theory III. (for catalogs before 2011) Provides a detailed examination of musical vocabularies of the late 19th century to the present. Extensions of tonality, new developments in rhythm, atonality and serialism, set theory, notational innovations, assumptions and practices of the avant-garde. (3, lin) MUTC 252. Aural Skills III. Development of analytical listening abilities and sight-reading skills. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 172 or consent of instructor (1, lin) MUTC 261. Music Theory IV. Analysis of twentieth-century music. Extensions of tonality, atonality, pitch-class set theory, serialism, new developments in rhythm, notational innovations, new approaches to timbre and texture, and various avant-garde practices. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 171 or consent of instructor. (3, lin) MUTC 272. Aural Skills IV. Development of analytical listening abilities and sight-reading skills. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 252 or consent of instructor. (1, lin) MUTC 331. Composition III. Ongoing listening and discussion of relevant issues and procedures with emphasis on original work ranging from simple to more complex forms and in a variety of genres. Assignments related to the interests and needs of the individual student. (2, lin) Prerequisite: MUTC 232 or consent of instructor. MUTC 332. Composition IV Ongoing listening and discussion of relevant issues and procedures with emphasis on original work ranging from simple to more complex forms and in a variety of genres. Assignments related to the interests and needs of the individual student. (2, lin) Prerequisite: MUTC 331 or consent of instructor MUTC 333. Digital Music Technology II. Advanced techniques using microcomputer-based MIDI systems. Continued work on composition and arranging projects, including film and video scoring. Prerequisite: MUTC 233 or consent of instructor. (2, lin) MUTC 343. Jazz Theory. Practical studies of extended chords, voicing, and progression, melodic and rhythmic development, and formal structures with application to composition and improvisation in jazz styles. (2) MUTC 352. Aural Skills V. Development of analytical listening abilities and sight-reading skills. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 272 or consent of instructor. (1, lin) MUTC 353. Modal Counterpoint. Analysis and composition in sixteenth-century contrapuntal styles. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 251 or consent of instructor. Alternate years. (2, lin) MUTC 354. Tonal Counterpoint. Analysis and composition in eighteenth-century contrapuntal styles. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in MUTC 251 or consent of instructor. Alternate years. (2, lin) MUTC 355. Orchestration. Review of principles of orchestration, analysis of scores; arranging, transcribing, and orchestrating for larger ensembles. Prerequisites: MUTC 171. (2, lin) MUTC 356. Arranging. Melodic and textural variation, harmonic substitution, modulatory techniques; exercises in a variety of styles and genres. Prerequisite: MUTC 251. Alternate years; offered spring in odd years. (2, lin) MUTC 364. The Improvising Musician. An exploration of the theological, psychological and music foundations of improvisation. Extensive ongoing work with improvisational techniques in a variety of styles and genres. (2, lin) MUTC 389. Special Topics in Music Theory. Seminars or courses in music theory offered at the discretion of appropriate faculty. Prerequisite: MUTC 251 or consent of instructor. (2) MUTC 451. Composition V. In-depth listening and discussion of relevant issues and procedures with increasing emphasis on original work in more complex forms and in a variety of genres. Prerequisite: MUTC 332 or consent of instructor MUTC 452. Composition VI. In-depth listening and discussion of relevant issues and procedures with increasing emphasis on original work in more complex forms and in a variety of genres. Prerequisite: MUTC 451 or consent of instructor MUTC 495. Directed Study. Independent study in selected fields of music materials and processes, improvisation, arranging, ethnic music, or analysis. (1-4, lin)
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