Music Courses

这些列表来自课程网,有些课程可能不是每个学期都提供. For additional information, contact the academic department, speak with counseling or refer to the current Class Schedule and College Catalog.

MURT 20 - Introduction to Music Technology    ( 3.00 - Units )
Fundamentals of digital audio manipulation, recording and production within industry-standard digital audio workstation software. 专注于音频平台的基本功能和技术熟练程度,如Avid ProTools和Ableton LIVE. Introduction to MIDI sequencing, digital signal processing and audio editing.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Assess characteristics of various microphones and evaluate microphone technique strategies.
  2. Construct a multitrack session.
  3. 演示音频信号流通过模拟和数字信号链的基本技术的适当实施.
  4. Develop a critical ear for aspects of individual tracks in a recording session.
  5. 解释声学和声音的基本原理,包括模拟到数字音频的转换.

MURT 21 - Audio Recording I    ( 3.00 - Units )
这是一个介绍性的课程,将提供基本的技能,学习和功能内的专业工具音频制作环境. Pro Tools代表了新一代的数字音频工作站,它使用个人计算机和数字信号处理的能力来直接将多轨数字音频记录到硬盘上. The course covers fundamental fundamental concepts and techniques, including basic acoustics, signal flow, microphone principles and usage, studio equipment, signal processing, recording console functions, and multi-track recording procedures.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Assess characteristics of various microphones and evaluate microphone technique strategies.
  2. Construct a multitrack session.
  3. 演示音频信号流通过模拟和数字信号链的基本技术的适当实施.
  4. Develop a critical ear for aspects of individual tracks in a recording session.
  5. 解释声学和声音的基本原理,包括模拟到数字音频的转换.
  6. Identify basic hardware components of a modern home recording studio.

MURT 22A - Electronic Music I    ( 3.00 - Units )
Fundamentals of electronic music production and MIDI sequencing. Principles of synthesis, survey of electronic music instruments and their development, MIDI sequencing, drum machines and beat making, and multitrack electronic music production.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Analyze the layers of a multi-track electronic music piece.
  2. Properly wire MIDI instruments, computers, and digital interfaces.
  3. Recognize and operate basic electronic music instruments.
  4. Understand and implement the essential components of MIDI sequencing software.

MURT 22B - Electronic Music II    ( 3.00 - Units )
这门高级课程建立在MUSA 22A电子音乐I的知识和技术技能的基础上. 将研究MIDI和数字录音环境的集成以及先进的电子音乐制作. Projects will include audio for film and video, theatrical productions, video games, advertisements, sound effects and sound installations.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Analyze the layers of a multi-track electronic music piece.
  2. Properly wire MIDI instruments, computers, and digital interfaces.
  3. Recognize and operate basic electronic music instruments.
  4. Students will demonstrate advanced aptitude in the art of digital audio recording.
  5. Understand and implement the essential components of MIDI sequencing software.

MURT 23 - Audio Recording II    ( 3.00 - Units )
Advanced studio recording techniques. Highly specific and refined microphone selection and implementation, complex multichannel signal flow, analog and digital signal processing, and multitrack mixing in the digital audio workstation. Student-produced, hands-on recording sessions in both the studio and live-concert settings.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. 演示通过复杂多轨录音会话的模拟和数字信号链的音频信号流的先进技术的适当实现.
  2. 在复杂的多通道录音会议中,为多个轨道以及整体混音方面开发一个关键的耳朵.
  3. Produce hands-on recording sessions in both the studio and live concert settings.

MURT 24 - Advanced Mixing Techniques    ( 3.00 - Units )
本课程扩展了基本的实际音乐制作和多轨录音技能,包括复杂的项目, integration of acoustic and digital recording elements, and use of current computer software in the mixing process. 使用外置和虚拟信号处理器实现对多声道音频混合的信号处理, submixing, busing and summing mixes, complex signal flow, advanced mixer automation, and selected topics in mastering.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Develop and evaluate microphone technique strategies for various instrumental implementations.
  2. Explain basic principles of acoustics and sound perception.
  3. 识别和批评的优点和缺点,在个人和团体的轨道预先录制的混音.
  4. 识别,区分和评估各种麦克风的设计和声音特性.
  5. 通过高级录音室控制台的组件正确构建音频信号链.

MURT 25 - Live Concert Sound    ( 1.00 - Units )
Sound design and amplification management for live music events. Management and manipulation of audio signal flow, interconnected amplification hardware, stage monitoring, and real-time audio signal processing for live audio events. Hands-on participation in on-campus live audio events.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. implement appropriate plan for recording a live event including microphones, wiring, speakers, equipment care and management.

MURT 26 - Music Business    ( 3.00 - Units )
This course presents an overview of the business and legal aspects of the music industry. 主题包括:职业道路,唱片合同,出版,许可,分销和版权. In addition, the duties and responsibilities of producers, agents, managers, promoters, and performing artists will be examined.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Become conversant with standard aspects of music contracts.
  2. Demonstrate understanding of the legal issues involved with music licensing and distribution.
  3. Explain the process of copyright procedures.
  4. recognize the role and importance of music publishing.

MURT 31 - Sound Design    ( 3.00 - Units )
Introduction to sound design and audio post-production for multimedia. Includes creating and editing sound sffects, ADR, Foley, music, and ambience, for multiple visual mediums such as film, TV, video gaming, theatre, and dance. 强调使用数字音频工作站的计算机辅助生产和使用工业标准设备的声音设计技术.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. 解释声学和声音的基本原理,包括模拟到数字音频的转换.
  2. 演示音频信号流通过模拟和数字信号链的基本技术的适当实施.
  3. Assess characteristics of various microphones and evaluate microphone technique strategies.

MURT 32B - Game Audio Design II    ( 3.00 - Units )
电子游戏的高级音乐和音频创作,包括在电子游戏中的实现. Advanced music cue composition, Foley SFX recording and design, and functional implementation in a live game context.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Construct a multitrack session.
  2. 演示音频信号流通过模拟和数字信号链的基本技术的适当实施.
  3. Develop a critical ear for aspects of individual tracks in a recording session.
  4. 解释声学和声音的基本原理,包括模拟到数字音频的转换.

MURT 32A - Game Audio Design I    ( 3.00 - Units )
Overview of game sound development, basics of sound effects libraries and working with animation, typical studio effects, sound manipulation, and common troubleshooting. Fundamental techniques of recording custom effects, proper integration of audio, and mixing techniques particular to the gaming industry. Basics of the game audio industry, including professional roles, occupational divisions, scheduling, contracts and workflow.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Construct a multitrack sound design.
  2. Identify basic hardware components of a modern studio
  3. 解释声学和声音的基本原理,包括模拟到数字音频的转换.
  4. Develop a critical ear.

MURT 50 - Music Industry Internship    ( 1.00 - Units )
Internship in the music industry as approved by Music Recording & 技术教师在学生的课程和兴趣的背景下,在MURT部门. 学生与音乐行业主管之间的合作努力,以完成商定的工作目标和经验目标. Student provides verification of service experience hours during the term. Music industry organization to be approved by MURT faculty. Hours and duties made in agreement between student and music industry supervisor. Students will meet on-campus with MURT faculty for one hour per week to discuss experience & progress. Faculty permission required for registration in the class.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Students learn and implement knowledge acquired in the classroom to a professional setting.
  2. Students will cultivate effective strategies for accomplishing specified professional tasks
  3. 学生将在现实世界的非学术环境中实践和展示专业行为.

MUSL 1 - Introduction to Music    ( 3.00 - Units )
在这门课程中,学生将接触到从中世纪到20世纪和21世纪美国音乐的各种音乐,学习人类想象力和智力的重要作品, including American jazz. 本课程旨在让学生在其历史背景下理解音乐作为一种艺术形式, primarily in Western Europe and the United States. 学生将把音乐作为一种反映个人创造力和社会的表达形式, political, religious, and cultural change. Further study includes the relationship of music to other forms of human expression, including art, architecture, philosophy, religion, and politics. Students will experience music through recordings, online video performances, and attendance at three concerts outside of the classroom.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Describe the elements and materials of music.
  2. Identify compositions from various period in Western music.
  3. Synthesize factual information and historical evidence through informed listening, analysis, evaluation and discernment of musical elements, forms and repertoire

MUSL 2C - Harmony and Musicianship III    ( 4.00 - Units )
This course is a study of harmony and voice-leading in the Western Common Practice. It addresses sequences, melodic and rhythmic figuration, leading-tone 7th chords, mixture, applied dominants and modulation, four-part voice leading, large formal structures, harmonic and formal analysis, and musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmic training, ear training, dictation, conducting, and keyboard realization.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Compose music using fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  2. Demonstrate basic musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmn reading, aural recognition, dictation, and keyboard realization.
  3. Examine and executed the material and structures of western Art Music from 1450-present.
  4. Understand and use the modern, Western system of notating music.
  5. 理解整个课程中讨论的理论概念发展的历史方面.
  6. Understand, recognize, and apply fundamental Western theoretical concepts.

MUSL 2C - Harmony and Musicianship III    ( 4.00 - Units )
This course is a study of harmony and voice-leading in the Western Common Practice. It addresses sequences, melodic and rhythmic figuration, leading-tone 7th chords, mixture, applied dominants and modulation, four-part voice leading, large formal structures, harmonic and formal analysis, and musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmic training, ear training, dictation, conducting, and keyboard realization.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Compose music using fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  2. Demonstrate basic musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmn reading, aural recognition, dictation, and keyboard realization.
  3. Examine and executed the material and structures of western Art Music from 1450-present.
  4. Understand and use the modern, Western system of notating music.
  5. 理解整个课程中讨论的理论概念发展的历史方面.
  6. Understand, recognize, and apply fundamental Western theoretical concepts.

MUSL 2B - Harmony and Musicianship II    ( 4.00 - Units )
This course is a study of harmony and voice leading in the Western Common Practice. It addresses diatonic functionality, four-part voice leading, simple musical structures, harmonic and formal analysis, and musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmic training, dictation, and keyboard realization.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Compose music using fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  2. Demonstrate basic musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmn reading, aural recognition, dictation, and keyboard realization.
  3. Examine and execute the material and structures of western Art Music from 1450-present.
  4. Understand and use the modern, Western system of notating music.
  5. 理解整个课程中讨论的理论概念发展的历史方面.
  6. Understand, recognize, and apply fundamental Western theoretical concepts.

MUSL 2B - Harmony and Musicianship II    ( 4.00 - Units )
This course is a study of harmony and voice leading in the Western Common Practice. It addresses diatonic functionality, four-part voice leading, simple musical structures, harmonic and formal analysis, and musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmic training, dictation, and keyboard realization.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Compose music using fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  2. Demonstrate basic musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmn reading, aural recognition, dictation, and keyboard realization.
  3. Examine and execute the material and structures of western Art Music from 1450-present.
  4. Understand and use the modern, Western system of notating music.
  5. 理解整个课程中讨论的理论概念发展的历史方面.
  6. Understand, recognize, and apply fundamental Western theoretical concepts.

MUSL 2A - Harmony and Musicianship I    ( 4.00 - Units )
Study of the fundamentals of Western music applicable to both classical and popular styles: notation; fundamental theoretical concepts; musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmic training, ear training, dictation, and keyboard realization; and basic compositional skills.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Examine and execute the material and structures of Western Art Music from 1450-present.
  2. Understand and use the modern Western system of notating music.
  3. Understand, recognize, and apply fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  4. Compose music using fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  5. Demonstrate basic musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmn reading, aural recognition, dictation, and keyboard realization.
  6. 理解整个课程中讨论的理论概念发展的历史方面.

MUSL 2A - Harmony and Musicianship I    ( 4.00 - Units )
Study of the fundamentals of Western music applicable to both classical and popular styles: notation; fundamental theoretical concepts; musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmic training, ear training, dictation, and keyboard realization; and basic compositional skills.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Examine and execute the material and structures of Western Art Music from 1450-present.
  2. Understand and use the modern Western system of notating music.
  3. Understand, recognize, and apply fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  4. Compose music using fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  5. Demonstrate basic musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmn reading, aural recognition, dictation, and keyboard realization.
  6. 理解整个课程中讨论的理论概念发展的历史方面.

MUSL 2D - Harmony and Musicianship IV    ( 4.00 - Units )
Study of advanced chromatic harmony, 20th century harmonic practices, large musical structures, style composition, harmonic, structural, and stylistic analysis, and musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmic training, ear training, dictation, and keyboard realization of chromatic and 20th century materials.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Compose music using 20th and 21st century theoretical concepts and techniques.
  2. Demonstrate advanced musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmn reading, aural recognition, dictation, and keyboard realization.
  3. Understand and use the modern, Western system of notating music.
  4. 理解整个课程中讨论的理论概念发展的历史方面.
  5. Understand, recognize, and apply advanced 20th century Western theoretical concepts.

MUSL 2D - Harmony and Musicianship IV    ( 4.00 - Units )
Study of advanced chromatic harmony, 20th century harmonic practices, large musical structures, style composition, harmonic, structural, and stylistic analysis, and musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmic training, ear training, dictation, and keyboard realization of chromatic and 20th century materials.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Compose music using 20th and 21st century theoretical concepts and techniques.
  2. Demonstrate advanced musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythmn reading, aural recognition, dictation, and keyboard realization.
  3. Understand and use the modern, Western system of notating music.
  4. 理解整个课程中讨论的理论概念发展的历史方面.
  5. Understand, recognize, and apply advanced 20th century Western theoretical concepts.

MUSL 3 - World Music    ( 3.00 - Units )
This course presents a survey of world music and introduces the field of ethnomusicology. The cultural contributions and influences of music and traditions in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, India, Latin America, and Native America are emphasized. Historical, cultural, philosophical and social conditions in which music exists, its relationship to cultural continuity and/or change, 此外,音乐和文化发展的艺术条件是通过三个主要镜头来探索的:声音, concept, and behavior. Attendance at world music concerts is required.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Distinguish unique musical characteristices and styles of non-western music;
  2. identify and compare cultural contexts of different "music-cultures";
  3. demonstrate aural identification and differentiation of musical styles.

MUSL 4 - History of Jazz Music    ( 3.00 - Units )
History, trends, 以及从20世纪初的前迪克西兰开始的爵士乐现象的影响,涵盖了包括摇摆音乐在内的各个时代, Be-Bop and post Be-Bop to present day. Course explores Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian influences on modern Latin Jazz music. Attendance at concerts and listening to a variety of music is required.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. communicate the historical importance of the art form and its origins;
  2. identify the basic elements of musical form and structure;
  3. synthesize factual information and historical evidence through informed listening, analysis, evaluation and discernment of musical elements, form, and repertoire.

MUSL 6 - Basic Music Skills    ( 3.00 - Units )
An introduction to the notation and primary elements of tonal music. Incorporates the following concepts: staff notation in treble and bass clefs, rhythm and meter; basic properties of sound; intervals; diatonic scales and triads; and diatonic chords. Development of skills in handwritten notation is expected.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Demonstrate an appreciation of aural and written concepts as they apply to musical structure.
  2. Identify melody, harmony, and rhythm while listening to music.
  3. Understanding and ability write musical notation.

MUSL 8 - History of Rock and Roll and Popular Music    ( 3.00 - Units )
A cultural survey of original American music traditions, forms and trends influenced by cultural, socio-economic, socio-political and economic changes including blues, jazz, early rock, the “British invasion,” rap, hip hop culture, Latino rock, heavy metal, jazz-rock fusion, electronic, modern rock, and pop. The focus will be on at least three of the following cultural groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Latin Americans and Native Americans.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. 阐明现代科技对乐器和录音技术的影响;
  2. differentiate between various styles of rock and popular music;
  3. synthesize factual information and historical evidence through informed listening, analysis, evaluation and discernment of musical elements, forms and repertoire.

MUSL 28 - Musical Structure & Songwriting    ( 3.00 - Units )
Study of contemporary rock and popular music theory with a songwriting implementation. Common chord progressions, harmonic development, song forms, lyric structure and analysis, orchestration, 录音室录音对20世纪中后期重要流行音乐风格的影响的历史和分析.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Identify various popular musical forms and structures
  2. Compose music using fundamental Western theoretical concepts.
  3. Articulate the importance of the arts is society and culture

MUSL 42B - Jazz Theory II    ( 3.00 - Units )
爵士作曲和安排,以获得和/或巩固的标准概念有关的写作和安排小到大合奏的工作知识. Emphasis will be placed on achieving the following: shapes and voicings used for different combinations of melody instruments; writing idiomatic arrangements of “standards” in the jazz idiom and standard “industry-style” formatting of scores and parts.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Demonstrate intermediate jazz musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythm reading, aural recognition, dictation, and realization
  2. Identify, understand and analyze the jazz forms and structure

MUSL 42A - Jazz Theory I    ( 3.00 - Units )
Developing an understanding of traditional jazz nomenclature including chord symbols, chord/scale relationships, and jazz harmony. Various scales, 他们的模式和他们的应用将被解决,以及他们的应用,共同的爵士乐习惯的和声进程.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  1. Identify, understand, and analyze the jazz forms and structures.
  2. Demonstrate basic jazz musicianship skills including sight singing, rhythm reading, aural recognition, dictation, and realization.