Schedule of Classes

Opportunity to perform and to listen critically, under faculty guidance. Discussion of topics of interest to music majors. Attendance required of all music students. Majors must perform at least once each semester, at teacher's discretion, and attend 10 concerts each semester. Grade based on concert and workshop attendance.

Required for B.M. and B.M.E. May be given in first or second semester of senior year.

Public performance guided by applied music faculty. Required for the Bachelor of Music degree in Performance. May be given in first or second semester of junior year.

Survey of the music business industry: music publishing, the recording industry, copyright law, performance rights, music products retailing, and arts management.

Detailed study of elements of music, and music notation; general survey of music and composers. How music expresses and communicates feelings and ideas: listening to compositions from various periods. Performance by faculty artists in class, and outside listening experiences. Satisfies fine arts general education requirement.

Elementary piano for non-music majors.

Participation in Bradley Symphony Orchestra, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, or Knox-Galesburg Symphony. One hour credit for each ensemble. Two sections may be taken each semester; may be repeated for a maximum of 16 hours credit.

Symphonic Winds, Symphonic Band, basketball band. Concerts on campus and out of town. Open to all students.

Presents two major choral works with orchestra each year. Open to all students.

Study and performance of choral music from all periods of music history: accompanied and unaccompanied works.

Study and performance of choral music for women's voices. Concerts on and off campus. Admission by audition and consent of instructor.

Study and performance of jazz from all eras. Concerts on campus and out-of-town.

Continuation of MUS 161: chord structures, decorative pitches, harmonic successions, four-voice combinations, inversions, seventh chords, secondary dominants, and modulations.

Aural theory; intervals, triads, and inversions; rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic dictation.

Development of keyboard facility: scales, improvisation, sight reading, transposing, and performance of elementary piano literature. Development of music-reading facility: theoretical aspects of music such as scales, functional harmony, and intervals. Self-paced.

Music and its development: Baroque through Classical. Emphasis on acquaintance with and analysis of representative musical works and style, and on understanding of musical concepts in historical context.

Continuation of MUS 261: formal structures; further study of chord structures including ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, and augmented sixth chords; chromatic harmony; enriched tonal resource; impressionistic techniques.

Continuation of MUS 163, 164: aural recognition of various types of seventh and ninth chords; melodic and harmonic dictation, including chromatically altered chords and modulation.

Continuation of MUS 165, 166, including sightreading and additional chord progressions.

Theoretical principles in jazz; application to ultimate goal of a highly developed and musical performance. Rehearsals.

Repertoire for small ensembles (vocal or instrumental), including Collegium Musicum. Workshop recitals.

Vocal and instrumental accompanying, for piano and organ students. Requires minimum of 3 hours per week studio accompanying, and accompanying in recital workshops for these students.

Music and its development: 19th century (MUS 335) and 20th century (MUS 336). Emphasis on acquaintance with and analysis of representative musical works and style, and an understanding of musical concepts in historical context.

Participation in Bradley Symphony Orchestra, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, or Knox-Galesburg Symphony. One hour credit for each ensemble. Two sections may be taken each semester; may be repeated for a maximum of 16 hours credit.

Symphonic Winds, Symphonic Band, basketball band. Concerts on campus and out of town. Open to all students.

Presents two major choral works with orchestra each year. Open to all students.

Study and performance of choral music from all periods of music history: accompanied and unaccompanied works.

Study and performance of choral music for women's voices. Concerts on and off campus. Admission by audition and consent of instructor.

Study and performance of jazz from all eras. Concerts on campus and out-of-town.

Operatic literature, style, stage deportment, and presentation of scenes. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.

Introduction to analytical and compositional techniques of atonal music, with emphasis on pitch-class set theory.

Continuation of Conducting I. Emphasis on full score reading and practical experience conducting the band or orchestra.

Survey of piano compositions: Baroque period into the 20th century. Performance, discussion, and analysis.

Song literature for the solo voice; poetry and settings beginning with English lutenist airs. Monody, arias, and cantatas of the Baroque and Classic periods; songs of contemporary composers.

Directed independent study in a selected area of music or music education; weekly meetings with the instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours credit.