MUS 30-40 - Applied Instruction in Composition
1 Credit(s)
The student learns historically informed compositional techniques and applies creative musical concepts through weekly private or small group instruction. With the supervision of the instructor, students work on an assigned composition project, produce fully edited performance scores, secure student ensembles to perform, supervise rehearsals, and perform as needed. Prerequisite: MUS 221 and permission or instructor (two or more credits must be completed as a prerequisite to the Senior Recital/Project in Composition.

MUS 33-43 - Private Conducting
1 Credit(s)
Students who have completed MUS 324, Advanced Conducting and who wish to continue the study of conducting may sign up for private conducting lessons. Permission of instructor required.

MUS 110 - Introduction to Music Studies
1 Credit(s)
Serves as an overview to the concentration in music. This course is to be taken during the freshman year of study. It will focus on rhythmic understanding and execution, textures in music, practice techniques, listening skills, basic vocabulary, performance etiquette, music bibliography and study resources, and will include assigned readings in music and performance. No prerequisites.

MUS 111 - Fundamentals of Music
1 Credit(s)
This course is to be taken during the second semester of the freshman year and is to follow MUS 110, Introduction to Music Studies. During this semester, students will acquire foundational skills in the aural and written components of music theory. Aural training will include introductory activities in the performance and recognition of pitch and rhythmic materials. The written component will cover basic notation inmultiple clefs, intervals, keys, scales, chords and simple key-defining harmonic statements. Spring, every year.

MUS 120 - A, B, C Guitar Class
1 Credit(s)
Emphasis on posture and procedures in holding the instrument and fundamentals of reading various forms of tabliture and notation. Students are grouped into sections of A - Beginning, B - Intermediate and C - Advanced.

MUS 130 - Voice Class
1 Credit(s)
Emphasis on finding the student’s true voice, establishing proper resonance, and singing effectively with an evenly placed melodic line, with stress on the projection and delivery of the text and foreign language reading. Posture, breathing, diction, stage poise and physical makeup of the vocal apparatus are some of the principles covered. Open to all students. Required for private voice instruction.

MUS 131/231 - Voice Lessons
1 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 135 - Class Instrument Instruction
1 Credit(s)
Students wishing to learn an instrument at the beginning level will either sign up for private instruction or class instruction. The number of beginners registered on a single instrument per semester will determine whether the student will receive private or small group lessons. Permission of instructor required.

MUS 141/241 - Piano Lessons
1 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 141J/241J - Jazz Piano Lessons
1 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 151/251 - Woodwinds Lessons
2 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived. Sections: F (flute), S (saxophone), C (clarinet), O (oboe), B (bassoon).

MUS 160A - Pep Band
1 Credit(s)
Open to any student who plays a wind, brass or percussion instrument. The pep band performs at football and basketball games.

MUS 160B - Big Band
1 Credit(s)
Standard jazz big band instrumentation. Performing standard jazz literature through new compositions.

MUS 160C - Wind Symphony
1 Credit(s)
Open to any student that plays a wind, brass or percussion instrument. Standard and modern repertoire is performed.

MUS 161/261 - Strings Lessons
1 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived. Sections: VA, VB (violin), A (viola), C (cello), B (string bass), G (guitar), H (harp).

MUS 170 - Chamber Music Ensembles
1 Credit(s)
An opportunity for students to study chamber music for string, brass, woodwind or percussion ensembles. Two hours of rehearsal weekly.

MUS 170J - Jazz Combos
1 Credit(s)
Small jazz combos focusing on the study of improvisation through scales, chord changes and jazz forms.

MUS 171/271 - Brass Lessons
1 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived. Sections: T (trumpet), H (french horn), R (trombone), U (tuba).

MUS 180 - Orchestra
1 Credit(s)
Open to study of standard orchestra literature through performance. Any student with sufficient performing skill may become a member. A series of four concerts is scheduled each year with several guest artists. Admission by audition or recommendation of the studio teachers.

MUS 181/281 - Organ Lessons
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 190 - College Choir
1 Credit(s)
Open to all students desiring experience in advanced choral literature and understanding of basic styles of music periods as applied in choral work. Music of all historical periods is performed both on and off campus and is sung in the original language. Promoting musical excellence is the choir’s chief purpose.

MUS 191A/291A - Percussion Lessons
1 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 199 - Chamber Choir
1 Credit(s)
A group of singers in the choir, selected by audition, who have an interest in vocal chamber music. Compositions of a challenging nature peculiar to the small-group voicing, including madrigals, allow this ensemble to familiarize an audience with a musical type not usually promoted by large choirs.

MUS 201 - Theory I
3 Credit(s)
Introduces students to principles of melodic composition and voice leading in species counterpoint in all modes. Diatonic harmony is learned through realization of figured bass, four-part chorale writing, cadences, and analysis of chorale fragments. Prerequisite: MUS 111 or permission of instructor. Simultaneous enrollment in MUS 201 L required. Fall, every year.

MUS 201 L - Musicianship Lab I
1 Credit(s)
Develops skills necessary to support concepts in theory and practical musicianship through singing with solfege, rhythmic drills, contextual listening exercises, and basic keyboard proficiency. Pitch material will include major, minor and modal scales, chords, and melodies. Rhythm topics will include basic drills in simple and compound meters. Prerequisite: MUS 111 or permission of instructor. Simultaneous enrollment in MUS 201 required. Fall, every year.

MUS 204 - The Understanding of Music
3 Credit(s)
Provides non-music majors with basic listening skills, the ability to discuss music intelligently, and a survey of historical styles and periods of music via the study of representative composers and works. Fulfills the Fine Arts Core requirement.

MUS 221 - Theory II
3 Credit(s)
Extends the subjects and practices of MUS 201 to include secondary dominants, tonicization, modulation, sequences, and Augmented Sixth and Neopolitan Sixth chords. Students will analyze numerous Bach chorales to become comfortable with using analysis to understand the structures of the works and to help the student form well-supported interpretations of each chorale. Prerequisite: MUS 201. Simultaneous enrollment in MUS 221 L required. Spring, every year.

MUS 221 L - Musicianship Lab II
1 Credit(s)
Continues to develop skills necessary to support concepts in theory and practical musicianship through singing with solfege, rhythmic drills, contextual listening exercises, and basic keyboard proficiency. Pitch material will include major and minor melodies, chords, and Augmented Sixth and Neopolitan Sixth chords and their resolutions. Rhythm topics include basic drills in simple and compound meters and polyrhythmic exercises. Prerequisites: MUS 201 L or permission of instructor. Simultaneous enrollment in MUS 221 required. Spring, every year.

MUS 310 - Music Pedagogy
2 Credit(s)
Students wishing to teach private studio instruction on their primary instrument will study the methods, materials and techniques of private instrument instruction. Students may be supervised in the teaching of local community students. Taking this course supports the Pedagogy option under Senior Recital/Project.

MUS 313 - Woodwind Methods
1 Credit(s)
Music education course. Added to other applied and theoretical music courses, this practical methods course is intended for students who wish to teach music in the public schools. A teaching certificate from the Michigan State Department of Education will be issued after satisfactory completion of the requirements.

MUS 314 - Brass Methods
1 Credit(s)
Music education course. Added to other applied and theoretical music courses, this practical methods course is intended for students who wish to teach music in the public schools. A teaching certificate from the Michigan State Department of Education will be issued after satisfactory completion of the requirements.

MUS 315 - Percussion Methods
1 Credit(s)
Music education course. Added to other applied and theoretical music courses, this practical methods course is intended for students who wish to teach music in the public schools. A teaching certificate from the Michigan State Department of Education will be issued after satisfactory completion of the requirements.

MUS 316 - String Methods
1 Credit(s)
Music education course. Added to other applied and theoretical music courses, this practical methods course is intended for students who wish to teach music in the public schools. A teaching certificate from the Michigan State Department of Education will be issued after satisfactory completion of the requirements.

MUS 321 - Theory III
3 Credit(s)
Relates whole movements and multi-movement works to compositional designs and historic genres through analysis of the large-scale treatment of rhythm, meter, harmony and voice leading, motivic transformation, phrase structure, and sectional repetition. Students use various analytical approaches to discover and describe the form and develop well-supported interpretations of the music's expressive range. Prerequisite: MUS 221 or permission of instructor. Simultaneous enrollment in MUS 321 L required. Fall, every year.

MUS 321 L - Musicianship Lab III
1 Credit(s)
Continues to develop skills necessary to support concepts in theory and practical musicianship through singing with solfege, rhythmic drills, contextual listening exercises, and basic keyboard proficiency. Pitch material will include two-voice dictations and exercises and harmonic dictations.  Rhythm topics will include exercises and dictations with two separate lines and asymmetic and changing meters. Simultaneous enrollment in MUS 321 required. Prerequisites: MUS 221 L or permission of instructor. Fall, every year.

MUS 322 - History and Literature of Music I
3 Credit(s)
Survey of music and its development in Western civilization to about 1750. Emphasis on an a cquaintance with representative musical works and styles, and on understanding musical concepts in the light of their historical and general cultural content. Fall, every year.

MUS 323 - History and Literature of Music II
3 Credit(s)
Survey of the development of music as an art form in Western civilization from about 1750 to the present. Emphasizes an acquaintance with formal and stylistic problems through the study of representative works and on understanding specific musical concepts in the light of their historical and general cultural context. Spring, every year.

MUS 324 - Beginning Conducting
2 Credit(s)
Technique of the Baton; a workshop course in the fundamental theory and practice of conducting for students with little or no experience. Prerequisites: MUS 201 or permission of instructor. Fall, every year.

MUS 332 - 432 - Voice Lessons
2 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 342 - 442 - Piano Lessons
2 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 352 - 452 - Woodwinds
2 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived. Sections: F (flute), S (saxophone), C (clarinet), O (oboe), B (bassoon).

MUS 362 - 462 - Strings Lessons
2 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived. Sections: VA, VB (violin), A (viola), C (cello), B (string bass), G(guitar), H (harp).

MUS 372 - 472 - Brass Lessons
2 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived. Sections: T (trumpet), H (french horn), R (trombone), U (tuba).

MUS 382 - 482 - Organ Lessons
2 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 392 - 492 - Percussion
2 Credit(s)
Private lessons. There is an $85 per credit/per semester fee for private music lessons. If a student chooses to either major or minor in music, the lesson fee is waived.

MUS 403 - American Music
3 Credit(s)
Survey of indigenous, popular and art music of the United States from the pre-colonial period to the present day. Emphasis on representative works and styles and on understanding American Music in light of its historical and general cultural context.

MUS 404 - History of Opera
3 Credit(s)
Surveys opera and related forms from the end of the 16th century to the present; studies representative works in some detail.

MUS 405 - The History of Chamber Music
3 Credit(s)
A study of the literature, composers, and cultural construct of chamber music from the Renaissance to the present day.

MUS 408 - Art Music: International Perspectives
3 Credit(s)
Surveys the history of European and American art music in an international context; examines major artistic styles; representative composers and works, and their relationship to pertinent non-western traditions and philosophies; reviews fundamental music concepts; strengthen aural analytical skills; familiarizes students with research and writing techniques within the fields of musicology and ethnomusicology.

MUS 415 - The Teaching of Music in Elementary Grades
3 Credit(s)
Students will study, evaluate and utilize methods, materials and techniques related to teaching music at the elementary school level (grades K-6).

MUS 416 - The Teaching of Music in Secondary Grades
3 Credit(s)
This course is intended to develop a detailed understanding of music teaching, organization and administration procedures at the secondary school level (grades 6-12).

MUS 421 - Form and Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Relates whole movements and multi-movement works to compositional designs and historic genres through analysis of the large-scale treatment of rhythm, meter, harmony and voice leading, motivic transformation, phrase structure, and sectional repetition. Students use various analytical approaches to discover and describe the form and develop well-supported interpretations of the music’s expressive range. Prerequisite: MUS 321 or permission of instructor. (Taking this course in addition to MUS 422 or MUS 424 will complete the Music Theory Elective core requirement.) Spring, even-numbered years.

MUS 423 - Orchestration
3 Credit(s)
Includes analysis of exemplary works for orchestra coordinated with a study of the instruments, including discussion of range, basic playing techniques, and characteristic tone colors of each. Assignments are given in composition and arranging for various instrumental ensembles and the orchestra. Prerequisite: MUS 221 or permission of instructor. (Taking this course in addition to MUS 424 will complete the Music Theory Elective core requirement.) Spring, odd-numbered years.

MUS 424 - Advanced Conducting
1 Credit(s)
A detailed course in baton technique, score reading, rehearsal technique and conducting larger ensembles. Prerequisites: MUS 324. Spring, every year.

MUS 425 - Music since 1900
3 Credit(s)
Analysis and interpretation of compositions written since 1900 with an emphasis on stylistic innovations and extensions of traditional principles. Students develop comprehension and aural awareness of extended scales, chords, serial ordering, transformational techniques, contextual designs, and popular idioms. Repertoire for study includes representative works of European and American composers. Students integrate techniques and creativity in composition assignments. Prerequisite: MUS 321 or permission of instructor. Offered spring, even-numbered years.

MUS 426 - Counterpoint
3 Credit(s)
A study of 16th and 18th century contrapuntal techniques. Students will be introduced to each of the five species of 16th century counterpoint, and be required to compose a number of counterpoint exercises. The study of 18th century counterpoint will include both written and analytical assignments of such compositional techniques as canons, inventions, and fugues. Prerequisite: MUS 321 or permission of instructor.