Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)

Jazz Band & Choir

www.wc.edu/academics/programs-study/fine-arts/music

Duane Durrett, Acting Department Chair
Fine Arts Building (FINE), RM 110
817-598-6222

Music majors should see Associate of Arts page for degree requirements.

Course Descriptions

MUAP: Individual Instruction

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 1 Lecture Hours 1 Lab Hours 1
Clinical Hours
1
CIP
50.0903.54 26

All students are expected to schedule and complete three or more half - hour rehearsals each week in college practice rooms. Individual instruction in composition (1120), voice (1121), trumpet (1131), trombone (1141), drums (1151), saxophone (1161), guitar (1171), bass guitar (1181), piano (1191), or jazz piano (1191). Subject to availability of instructors. Each course may be repeated for credit to a maximum of 20 hours in this area. Two hours lab per week.

MUEN 1121, 1122: Jazz Band

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 1 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours 6
Clinical Hours
0
CIP
50.0903.55 26

Woodwind, brass, and percussion players. Study and performance of jazz and popular music. Open to woodwind, brass, and percussion players. Enrollment only by audition or by consent of instructor. Six hours lab per week.

MUSI 1192: Guitar Class

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 1 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours 3
Clinical Hours
0
CIP
50.0911.51 26
Class instruction in fundamental guitar playing, including technique, music-reading, fretboard theory, melodic and harmonic realizations. Zero hour lecture and three hours lab per week.

MUSI 1306: Music Appreciation

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3 Lab Hours 0
Clinical Hours
0
CIP
50.0902.51 26
General survey of the history and literature of music, with the goal of intelligent listening and appreciation on the part of students. Important composers, forms, and characteristics of music are heard through recordings and live performances. No previous knowledge of music required. Recital attendance is required. Three hours lecture per week.

MUSI 1307: Music Literature

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3 Lab Hours 0
Clinical Hours
0
CIP
50.0902.52 26
A survey of the styles and forms of music as it developed from the middle ages to the present. This course will familiarize the student with cultural context, terminology, genres, and notation.Three hours lecture per week.

MUSI 1310: American Music

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3 Lab Hours 0
Clinical Hours
0
CIP
50.0902.53 26
General survey of various styles of music in America. Topics may include jazz, ragtime, folk, rock, and contemporary art music. Three hours lecture per week.

MUSI 1311, 1312: Music Theory I & II

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3 Lab Hours 0
Clinical Hours
0
CIP
50.0904.51 26

Analysis and writing of tonal melody and diatonic harmony up to and including the chords. Analysis and writing of small compositional forms. Three hours lecture per week.

MUSI 2116, 2117: Sight Singing & Ear Training III & IV

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 1 Lecture Hours 1 Lab Hours 2
Clinical Hours
0
CIP
50.0904.57 26

Singing more difficult tonal music including modal, ethnic, and 20th century materials. Aural study, including dictation, of more complex rhythm, melody, chromatic harmony, and extended certain structures. One hour lecture and two hours lab per week.

MUSI 2311, 2312: Music Theory III & IV

Class Program
Music (MUAP, MUEN, MUSI)
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3 Lab Hours 0
Clinical Hours
0
CIP
50.0904.52 26
Advanced harmony part writing and keyboard analysis and writing of more advanced tonal harmony including chromaticism and extended certain structures. Introduction to 20th century compositional procedures and survey of the traditional large forms of composition. Three hours lecture per week.