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Comprehensive exam covering music theory, music history, and aural skills taken by all students after completing Theory III, Aural Skills III, and Music History I. Students must demonstrate mastery at the 70% level.

A group piano instruction experience. A continuation of MUSI 1116 Class Piano II. Prerequisite: MUSI 1116 Class Piano II.

A group piano instruction experience. A continuation of MUSI 2115 Class Piano III. At the end of this course students will attempt the Applied Music Proficiency Examination in piano. Prerequisite: MUSI 2115 Class Piano III.

Continuation of MUSI 1132. Should be taken concurrently with MUSI 2331. Prerequisite: MUSI 1132 and 1332.

Continuation of MUSI 2131. Should be taken concurrently with MUSI 2332. Prerequisite: MUSI 2131 and 2331.

An overview of techniques and best practices for leading worship band rehearsals.

Beginning skill development with the baton; conducting beat and metrical patterns; gestures of articulation and expression. Prerequisite: MUSI 2331 or permission of the instructor.

A required course for all music education majors, provides an overview of the total public school music program.

An overview of church music concepts, practices, and administration.

Continuation of MUSI 1332. Includes secondary dominant and leading tone chords, modulation to closely related keys, borrowed chords, Neapolitan chords, and augmented 6^th chords, Should be taken concurrently with MUSI 2131. Prerequisite: MUSI 1332.

Continuation of MUSI 2331. Includes study of chromatic tonal harmony, late Romantic harmony, chromatic modulation, enharmonic reinterpretation, modes, exotic and synthetic scales, 20th century harmonic vocabulary and techniques, set theory, 12-tonal theory, and aleatoric practices. Should be taken concurrently with MUSI 2132. Prerequisite: MUSI 2331.

Applications of chord progressions, song forms, and harmonic techniques used in commercial music. Topics include chord notation and chord voicings, and the Nashville numbering system.

A survey of the history, music literature, and compositional techniques and styles from Gregorian chant up through the death of Bach.

A survey of the literature, compositional techniques, musical traditions and cultural contexts of the music not common to traditional western musical study.

This course examines the history of rock, from the days before rock (pre-1955) to the end of the 1990s. Students will also explore how developments in the music business and in technology helped shape the ways in which styles developed.