Back to UW-L Music Department Home PageCOURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: To train and equip the student with the basic skills of musicianship that are essential for success and enjoyment in any field of music. These skills include:
The above books are available at Textbook Rental
** If you are enrolled in this class you must be enrolled in Music 237, Music reading and Aural Skills if you are a music major or music minor.
Grading Scale: 90-100=A, 88-90=B+, 80-88=B, 78-80=C+, 70-78=C, 60-70=D
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: To continue to train and equip the student with more advanced skills of musicianship that include the following:
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Grading Scale: 90-100=A, 88-90=B+, 80-88=B, 78-80=C+, 70-78=C, 60-70=D
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: To aurally train students in the basic skills of music and to reinforce the concepts learned in Theory I and II by singing and listening in and out of class.
SCORING WILL BE BASED ON A 400 POINT SCALE Students may obtain points in the following areas:
Grading Scale: 90-100=A, 88-90=B+, 80-88=B, 78-80=C+, 70-78=C, 60-70=D
Outlines for Music Reading/Aural Skills237and 238
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: To continue training the student in more advanced aural skills in music and reinforcing the concepts learned in Theory III and IV by singing and listening in and out of class. We will use exercises from the text, including melodies, canons, rhythmic exercises, 2, 3, and 4 part vocal exercises along with supplemental material from music literature.
Grading Scale: 90-100=A, 88-90=B+, 80-88=B, 78-80=C+, 70-78=C, 60-70=D
Outlines for Music Reading/Aural Skills337and 338
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: This course will equip the student with practical knowledge of the different string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. The student will learn how to write for specific instruments and the basics for scoring arrangements for various sized ensembles of instruments. The student will learn how to adapt and arrange music for specific needs. Music literature of different styles for various ensembles and technical levels will be studied as examples.
Grading Scale: 90-100=A, 88-90=B+, 80-88=B, 78-80=C+, 70-78=C, 60-70=D
This course covers the basic principles of the technology of music production with recorders, mixers, microphones, synthesizers, samplers and computers. It includes fundamental concepts in recording with analog and digital recorders, mixing, analog and digital synthesis, sampling, MIDI and multimedia computer applications.
The class meets in room 67 and in room 66. You will be notified as to which room will be used for class by the instructor. Each student will sign up for weekly lab times on a master schedule. Students can sign up for additional lab times on a week-to-week basis. Students must sign out a key to the lab from the music listening lab office. You will need to have a student ID to sign out the key each time. Each student is responsible for returning the key after it has been signed out. No unauthorized people will allowed to use the lab. THE DOOR TO THE LAB MUST BE KEPT LOCKED AT ALL TIMES!
You will be required to complete several (5-7) short projects throughout the semester. There will be a mid-term test and an optional final exam. Assignments will account for %70 of your grade. The mid-term and final will account for %30.
The text for this class is: Teaching Music With Technology by Tom Rudolph. It is available at the bookstore. All of the other written materials you will need for this class will be found at this website (see below) or distributed to you by the instructor.
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Basic principles of the generation and modification of sound with the use of Analog, and digital instruments. This includes basics in musical acoustics, analog synthesis, digital and FM synthesis, and sampling
The advanced use of MIDI applications for music sequencing, notation and other implimentations will be covered. Digital synthesis and signal processing as well as the basics of digital recording and editing will be covered.
Prerequisites: Music 263 or consent of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: This course is intended to aquaint the student with larger complex musical forms and advanced techniques of musical analysis. The student will learn in detail the different larger forms (i.e. Sonata/Allegro, rondo, Sonata/Rondo, etc.) and the changes these forms have taken on through history. The student will also learn more in depth analytic skills such as Schenkerian (linear) analysis, rhythmic analysis, and basic atonal and set theory.
Prerequisites: Music 338 (Theory IV)
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: This course will equip the student with basic skills in 2, 3, and 4 part contrapuntal procedures of the 16th through 20th centurys. The student will also gain perspectives into some of the basics of counterpoint that are the same throughout many styles.
Prerequisites: Music 338 (Theory IV)
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course deals with music composition in its most broad and general artistic sense. Because the concepts encompassed in the composition of music parallel the concepts of other creative arts (e.g. visual arts, dramatic arts, literary arts, etc.) I use many examples from other art forms to illustrate basis musical principles such as continuity, proportions, background and foreground, notation, etc.
OBJECTIVE AND GOALS: The objective of this class is not to create technically refined composers but, to have each student discover the basic elements of musical composition in a hands-on, interactive way. The students, regardless of musical background, will learn to identify what makes music work in all types of styles.
ASSIGNMENTS: There will be 6 to 10 assignments during the semester. These assignments will be graded using a letter grade. Late assignments will be lowered one letter grade unit (i.e. from A to A-) for each class day late.
GRADING: There will be no final examination in this class. There will be a final project due the last class day. The Final project will count 40% of your grade and the assignments will count 60%.
TEXT: Learning to Compose, Austin
Prerequisites: Music 338 (Theory IV)
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