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This course is designed for students seeking to compose and notate music using computers. An advanced course in music technology which focuses on software and hardware that controls digital audio.  May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.

This survey of the music industry is designed for Music Business majors. It is the second course in a sequence together with MUSC 21000 Introduction to Music Business.

The first semester of a year-long survey of music history, this course includes music of the ancient world through Beethoven. This course partially fulfills the advanced writing requirement for Music majors.

Music History 2 is the second semester of a year-long survey of music history. The course content covers music of the Enlightenment through the 20th century. This course partially fulfills the advanced writing requirement for music majors.

This course provides a detailed study of the materials and structures of tonal and atonal music.

This class is an introduction to the instruments of the symphony orchestra and rudiments of scoring. Students are taught classification of instruments and how to write for all transposing instruments.

This course is designed for students seeking to compose and notate music using computers.

Through the study and skill development of basic conducting techniques, students will begin to appreciate the relationship between gesture and sound. This course is designed to develop technique and knowledge of instrumental and vocal conducting, 

A survey of American popular music of the 20th century, this course examines the musical characteristics, songwriting practices, and instrumental/vocal techniques associated with the various styles of popular music. Social, cultural, historical, and political factors that shaped the development and reception of American popular music will be examined.

Sex, Race, and Power in Pop Music for Majors examines social identities and relations of power that characterize popular music in contemporary society. By investigating artists and examples of music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the lenses of sexuality (including gendered expression), race, and the structures of power that organize life in modern society, this course examines how music responds to and impacts our understanding of social difference. A diverse range of noteworthy popular musicians and their creative output will be explored as they relate to the organizing principles of the course. Readings from the disciplines of popular music studies, African American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies will be surveyed in the class. Musical characteristics, songwriting practices, instrumental/vocal techniques, and accompanying visual media will be investigated for how they contribute to defining the relationship between music and identity. Social, cultural, historical, and political factors that shaped the development and reception of the musicians discussed in the course will be analyzed.

This course provides a historical overview of the origins of Jazz and its most important and influential musicians from 1900 to the present, and examines the musical characteristics, compositional practices, and instrumental/vocal techniques associated with the various styles of the genre. Social, cultural, historical, and political factors that shaped the development and reception of jazz will be investigated.