Electives (Undergraduate Students)

MUS 485.001 – Form in Tonal Instrumental Music
MW 8-8:50am (Sly)

MUS 485.002 – Post-Tonal Skills and Analysis
MW 11:30am-12:20pm (Sullivan)

In this course, we will explore several 20th-/21st-century compositional and analytical techniques by way of performance-based aural skills. Singing, rhythm work, and performance at the piano and the major instrument will serve as primary modes of engaging with a wide array of topics involving pitch, rhythm and temporality, form and process, intertextuality, and various extended techniques. Assignments and projects will involve practical, hands-on application through performance and model composition (think writing and performing a short etude or vocalise using a particular technique).

Students in this course should be prepared to bring their major instruments to class regularly or to arrange for an equivalent alternative at the beginning of the semester.

• MUS 410 – Jazz History
  • MW 10:20 – 11:10am | K. Prouty
• MUS 421 – Music of the 19^th Century
  • TTH 9:10 – 10am | K. Bartig
• MUS 422 – Music of the 20^th Century
  • TTH 10:20 – 11:10am | K. Bartig
• MUS 424 – Music, Sexuality, and Gender
  • MW 10:20-11:10am | M. Ray
• MUS 428 – Special Topics
  • Topic: TBA
  • TTH 9:10-10:00am | C. Scales
• MUS 429 – Music East Asia
  • TTH 10:20-11:10am | M. Largey

MUS 434 Orchestral Musicianship (1)

MUS 435 Opera Theatre^ (1-2)

MUS 481 Acting for Singers Opera Scene Study (1)

MUS 415 Art Song Literature: German (2)

Secondary Lessons (1) – MUS 150m, MUS 151n, MUS 152n, MUS 153n, MUS 154n, MUS 155n.

MUS 442 Advanced Techniques Real Time Performance (2)

MUS 483 Composition for Non-Comp. Majors^ (2)

MUS 489 Screen Scoring ^ (2)

MUS 491.086 Electroacoustic Improv Workshop ^ (1-2)

MUS 491.090 Electronic Instrument Design ^ (3)

MUS 465 Music in Early Childhood ^ (2)

MUS 469 Teaching Secondary Classroom Music ^ (3)

MUS 491.097 Alexander Technique ^ (1)

MUS 491.099 Yoga for Musicians ^ (1)

MUS 491.301 Music Entrepreneurship: (2)
Topic: Music of Entrepreneurship

MUS 893 Topics in Entrepreneurship: (2)
Topic: DIY Recording and Licensing

MUS 466 Internship – Career Development^ (1-2)

MUS 491.045 Sem in African Drumming* ^ (1-2)
*Requires enrollment in MUS 129

MUS 491.046 Percussion Pedagogy ^ (1-4)

MUS 491.059 American Songbook I ^ (2)

MUS 891.059 American Songbook I ^ (1)

MUS 491.076 Instrumental Conducting ^ (2)

MUS 490 Independent Study – Bachelors^