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Music (MUSIC)

Performing Organizations
All performing organization courses may be repeated for credit and are open to both lower-division and upper-division students. Courses involve the technical and stylistic rehearsal and study of musical literature recognized for its quality and aesthetic value. Participation is required in all rehearsals and performances of the performing organizations for which student is registered.

MUSIC 102. Minor Ensembles (1 unit; repeatable for credit)
Study and performance of literature for community chorus (CC), chamber singers (CS), flute ensemble (FE), gospel choir (GC), guitar ensemble (GE), jazz ensemble (JE), men's chorus (MC), contemporary music (CME), basketball pep band (PB), percussion (PE), string (SE), women's chorus (WC), and woodwind (WWE). For MUSIC 102GC, see AFRS 21/121.

MUSIC 103. Major Ensembles (1 unit; repeatable for credit)
Study and performance of choral and/or instrumental literature appropriate for large ensembles such as concert choir (CC), jazz orchestra (JO), marching band (MB), and symphony orchestra (SO), symphonic band (SB), wind orchestra (WO).

MUSIC 117. Specialty Ensemble (1 unit; repeatable for credit)
Study and performance of literature appropriate for non-conducted ensembles such as Bulldog Beat (BB), Scholarship Brass Quintet (BQ), Chamber Music (CM), Keyboard Ensemble (KE), and President's Quintet (PQ).

MUSIC 117JC. Jazz Combo (1 unit)
(Repeatable for credit.) A non-conducted ensemble that studies and performs small group jazz literature, including original compositions and arrangements by students and commissions by professional ensembles. Two weekly rehearsals focus on ensemble skills and other skills idiosyncratic to jazz performance.

MUSIC 118. Instrumental/Vocal Workshops (1 unit; repeatable for credit)
Study and performance of music literature appropriate for groups such as band workshop (BW), opera theatre (OT), percussion workshop (PW), and vocal workshop (VW).




Instrumental, Vocal, and Composition Lessons

MUSIC 31/131 through 39/139 and 131J through 135J include technical, stylistic, and aesthetic performance studies of standard literature: etudes, solo, chamber, and large ensemble music. All music majors (except students enrolled in the Music as a Liberal Art Option) are required to enroll in a declared performing medium until completion of senior recital. Concurrent enrollment in appropriate major ensemble required. Passing Jury II required to enroll in MUSIC 131 through 139. Students admitted to the jazz section must complete 4 units of MUSIC 31 through 38 and pass Jury I to enroll in MUSIC 131J through 135J. MUSIC 148 includes individual instruction in original composition in a variety of media, forms, and styles. All courses are repeatable for credit. (All courses require a $20 course fee.)

MUSIC 31/131/131J. Brass (1; max total 16 units)

MUSIC 32/132/132J. Percussion (1; max total 16 units)

MUSIC 33/133/133J. Strings (1; max total 16 units)

MUSIC 34/134/134J. Piano (1; max total 16 units)

MUSIC 35/135/135J. Woodwinds (1; max total 16 units)

MUSIC 38. Organ (1; max total 16 units)

MUSIC 39/139. Voice (1; max total 16 units)

MUSIC 148. Composition (1; max total 10 units; repeatable for credit)
Prerequisite: two semesters of MUSIC 48 and successful completion of Jury I. Includes individual instruction in original composition in a variety of media, forms, and styles.

Other Music Courses

MUSIC 1A. Ear Training and Sight Singing I (1 unit)
Basic drill in the singing and recognition of melodic and harmonic intervals, triads, and melodies in major and minor keys. Principles of tuning. Dictation of simple melodies in major and minor keys. Harmonic dictation using root position tonic, predominant, and dominant triads. Use of computer music programs. (Course fee, $15)

MUSIC 1B. Ear Training and Sight Singing II (1 unit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 1A. Extension of melodic sight-singing and dictation, including passing tones and rhythms in simple/compound meter. Melodies in major and minor keys featuring leaps. Harmonic dictation using inversions of chords; recognition of basic chord patterns. (Course fee, $15)

MUSIC 1C. Ear Training and Sight Singing III (1 unit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 1B. Extension of melodic sight-singing and dictation, including non-harmonic tones and more complex rhythms. Drill in singing and recognition of secondary triads and seventh chords. Harmonic dictation using chromaticism; recognition of chord patterns using secondary chords and modulation.

MUSIC 1D. Ear Training and Sight Singing IV (1 unit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 1C. Melodic sight-singing and dictation featuring modal, chromatic, modulating, and post-tonal melodies. Dictation of rhythms featuring irregular beat divisions and polyrhythms. Drill of chromatic triads and extended tertian chords. Harmonic dictation using extended dominants; recognition of patterns in foreign keys.

MUSIC 4B. Piano Class II (2 units; repeatable for credit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 9. Music majors and minors only. Music majors and minors only. Playing skills and techniques necessary to prepare for the piano proficiency examination required of all music majors. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 4C. Piano Class III (2 units; repeatable for credit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 4B. Playing skills and techniques necessary to prepare for the piano proficiency examinations required of all music majors. Continuation of MUSIC 4B. Continuing enrollment in MUSIC 4C is required until the piano proficiency exam is passed. CR/NC grading only. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 9. Introduction to Music (3 units)
Music theory and aesthetics for the general student. Notation of pitch and rhythm. Reading, playing, and writing melodies with chordal accompaniments. Introduction to computer applications. (Course fee, $20 for piano sections only) G.E. Breadth C1.

MUSIC 11. Intermediate Guitar Technique (2 units)
Introduction to classical guitar, major, minor, and chromatic scales, chord progression, and beginning classical guitar selections.

MUSIC 12. Flamenco Interpretation (2 units)
Introduction to basic flamenco guitar techniques; rasgueados, picados, tremolos, basic rhythms, studies and interpretation of flamenco repertoire.

MUSIC 14. Accompanying I (2 units)
Prerequisite: Jury I. Designed to give the piano student accompanying experience that systematically develops proficiency in skills useful to the accompanist, chamber musician, or school music teacher. Skills include sight-reading, transposing, harmonizing, open-score reading, and "quick study."

MUSIC 20. Convocation (0 units)
Department student recitals, advising, and enrichment. Required of all music majors each semester they are registered for classes until the senior recital is completed. CR/NC grading only.

MUSIC 40. Theory and Literature I (3 units)
Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in MUSIC 9. Fundamentals of music: notation, scales, intervals, keys, triads, concepts of mode and meter, principles of melody writing, and species counterpoint in two voices. Analysis of appropriate examples from musical literature. Use of music notation software. (Course fee, $15) F

MUSIC 41. Theory and Literature II (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 40. Figured bass and principles of voice leading. Four-part writing in choral and keyboard style. Functional harmony, seventh chords, and secondary function chords. Harmonization of melodies. Principles of form in Western art music. Analysis of representative musical literature. Use of music notation software. S

MUSIC 42. Theory and Literature III (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. Continuation of figured bass and part writing, emphasizing chromaticism, altered chords, and extended tonality. More advanced musical forms. Study of representative musical examples. Use of music notation software. F

MUSIC 43. Theory and Literature IV (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 42. Non-tonal harmony (e.g. quartal, pandiatonic). Introduction to set theory and basic twelve-tone technique. Jazz harmony and principles of improvisation. Survey of representative compositions of the twentieth century with respect to style and structure. Use of music notation software. S

MUSIC 47. Introduction to Music Technology (2 units)
Principles, uses, techniques, and applications of music technology. Experience with current hardware and software for sequencing, and synthesis, as well as digital recording and editing.

MUSIC 48. Seminar in Composition (2; max total 6 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 47 (may be taken concurrently with permission of instructor). Aural-analytic introduction to study of origins and developments of major compositional concepts and genres in Western music; exercises and creative writing; problems of concepts in notation.

MUSIC 58. Basic Conducting (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. Fundamentals of conducting and score-reading; standard patterns and stick technique.

MUSIC 60T. Topics in Music
(1-3; max total 6 units; repeatable for credit)
Special studies in ethnomusicology or music appreciation, business, education, history, literature, theory, or technology.

MUSIC 74. Listener's Guide to Music (3 units)
Exploration of a wide range of musical styles (past, present, classical, and popular) through guided practical experiences and the development of an aesthetic sensitivity for music of various cultures. G.E. Breadth C1.

MUSIC 75. History of Rock and Roll (3 units)
The history of rock and roll and its musical precedents. The music, musical styles, and musicians of rock and roll, as well as the most important cultural, sociological and philosophical factors that influenced and were influenced by rock and roll. G.E. Breadth C1.

MUSIC 110. Voice for Non-Music Majors (1 unit; repeatable for credit)
Acquaints the non-music major with basic principles of good singing; applies principles of good singing to different song styles; and helps the non-music major voice student develop and strengthen performing skills.

MUSIC 111. Advanced Guitar Technique (2 units)
Advanced studies in classical guitar works, diatonic major and minor scales, chord progression, and interpretation of classical guitar repertoire.

MUSIC 112. Advanced Flamenco Interpretation (2 units)
Special studies in flamenco guitar interpretation including advanced techniques, traditional rhythms, improvisations, and analysis of music, songs and dance. For majors and non-majors.

MUSIC 113. Vocal Pedagogy (2 units)
Open to upper-division vocal performance majors only. Prerequisites: passing of Jury II, all lower-division music core courses, as well as at least one semester of music history, MUSIC 161A or 161B. Principles, teaching procedures, materials, and physiology of the voice, and historical background for teaching solo and group lessons.

MUSIC 114. Accompanying II (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 14. Student will perform regularly, accompanying one or more soloists or groups throughout the semester by assignment. In addition, there will be readings and exercises to further develop skills studied in MUSIC 14.

MUSIC 115. Advance Guitar for the Classroom Teacher (2 units)
Continued development of guitar skills for the general music teacher. Intermediate group instruction on the acoustic guitar with focus on techniques and materials appropriate for accompanying classroom music. Topics include chord structures, strumming, picking style, and fingering techniques.

MUSIC 119. Voice Techniques and Materials (1 unit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. Principles, playing and teaching procedures, and materials for teaching voice in the elementary school, high school, and community college. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 119J. Lower Brass Pedagogy (1 unit)
Prerequisites: MUSIC 40, 41. Principles, playing and teaching procedures, and materials for teaching trombone, baritone, and tuba in the elementary school, high school, and community college. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 120. Class Piano Techniques and Materials (1)
Prerequisites: MUSIC 41, passed piano proficiency. Study of techniques and materials appropriate for teaching class piano to beginners in elementary school, middle school, high school, and community college music classrooms.

MUSIC 122A. String Techniques and Materials (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. Principles and physics of stringed instruments; playing procedures and materials for teaching beginning string students from elementary school through community college. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 124A. Woodwind Techniques and Materials (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. Principles and physics (including common transpositions) of woodwind instruments; playing procedures and materials for teaching beginning woodwind students from elementary school through community college. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 126. Percussion Techniques and Materials (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. Principles, playing and teaching procedures, and materials for teaching percussion instruments in the elementary school, high school, and community college. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 127A. Brass Techniques and Materials (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. Principles and physics (including common transpositions) of brass instruments; playing procedures and materials for teaching beginning brass students from elementary school through community college. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 129. Reed Making (1 unit)
Required for oboe and bassoon players. Individual or group supervision in all aspects of the art of reed making. Repeatable for credit until such time as student and professor mutually agree that supervision is no longer necessary. CR/NC grading only.

MUSIC 130T. Topics in Performance
(2; max total 12 units, repeatable for credit)
Special studies in vocal or instrumental music, including topics such as accompanying, electronic instruments, mixed chamber music.

MUSIC 140T. Topics in Theory (3; max total 9 units; repeatable for credit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 43. Analytical study of specific composers, genres, styles, and diverse approaches to music theory.

MUSIC 141. Seminar in Modal Counterpoint (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 43. Polyphony of the 15th and 16th centuries; analysis and composition of melodic lines, simple counterpoint, types of imitation; writing motets with text in two or more parts.

MUSIC 142. Seminar in Canon and Fugue (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 42. Polyphony of the 17th and 18th centuries; analysis and composition of melodic lines, imitative, strict and invertible counterpoint, canon, and fugue.

MUSIC 144. Form and Analysis (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 42. Principles of musical form and analysis as applied to musical repertoire. Includes an introduction to the Schenker method of music analysis and review of chromatic harmony as necessary.

MUSIC 147. Digital Music Production (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 9 and 47 or permission of instructor. Lecture and discussion on digital audio design for various forms of media. Practical experience designing and producing audio and music in a digital format.

MUSIC 153. Children's Music (3 units)
Open to nonmajors only. Introduction to song literature and singing games suitable for children. Development of in-tune singing, ear training, and sight-singing skills.

MUSIC 154. Music for the Elementary Classroom (3 units)
Music majors only. Prerequisites: MUSIC 41, passed piano proficiency. Song literature, musical games, and basic skills for the recorder and guitar appropriate for use in the elementary music classroom. Course content derived from the folk music and musical contributions of world cultures.

MUSIC 155. Advanced Elementary Classroom Techniques (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 153 for students not majoring in music. Individual research on the place and functions of music in preschool and elementary school curriculum; selection, discussion, and analysis of musical materials including state texts; planning activities that enable children to develop aesthetic sensitivity, musical skills, and understanding.

MUSIC 158A. Advanced Instrumental Conducting (2; max total 4 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 58. Advanced instrumental conducting and score reading; rehearsal techniques; problems in tempo, balance, style, and phrasing; mixed meters and other contemporary problems. Assigned projects in conducting.

MUSIC 158B. Advanced Choral Conducting (2; max total 4 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 58. Advanced choral conducting and score reading; rehearsal techniques; problems in tempo, balance, style, and phrasing; mixed meters and other contemporary problems. Assigned projects in conducting.

MUSIC 159. Marching Band Techniques (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. Offered fall semester only. Practical and creative aspects of producing musical shows and marching formations for athletic events, parades, and public ceremonies. Use of computer programs.

MUSIC 160T. Topics in Music History and Literature
(1-3; max total 9 units; repeatable for credit)
Study of selected musical genres, composers, and other specialized topics.

MUSIC 161A. Survey of Western Art Music I (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41, MUSIC 74, and junior-level status (60 units or more). Study of representative composers, genres, and major works. Emphasis on changing concepts of "music," development of styles, and relation of music to the history of ideas and to relevant institutions and social customs up to approximately 1800 A.D. F

MUSIC 161B. Survey of Western Art Music II (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41 MUSIC 74, and junior-level status (60 units or more). Study of representative composers, genres, and major works. Emphasis on changing concepts of "music," development of styles, and relation of music to the history of ideas and to relevant institutions and social customs from Beethoven to the present. S

MUSIC 162. Jazz Pedagogy (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 43. Junior music major. Basic rehearsal techniques for small and large ensembles of the secondary and collegiate levels. Survey of pedagogical concepts, performance practices, and performance repertory for jazz ensembles.

MUSIC 163. Jazz History (3 units)
Prerequisite: junior music major in the Jazz Studies Option, permission of instructor. The history of jazz in America for the intermediate/advanced performer through study of important innovators, performers, composers, and improvisers.

MUSIC 164. Jazz Theory and Improvisation I (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 43, concurrent enrollment in MUSIC 102JEA or 102JEB. Provides basic and intermediate foundation in theory and improvisational styles within the jazz idiom.

MUSIC 165. Jazz Theory and Improvisation II (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 164, concurrent enrollment in MUSIC 102JEA or 102JEB. Provides intermediate and advanced foundation in theory and improvisational styles within the jazz idiom.

MUSIC 166. Piano Pedagogy (2 units)
Piano majors only. Principles, playing and teaching procedures, and materials for teaching individual and small group piano lessons to students from elementary school age through community college. (Course fee, $20)

MUSIC 167. Keyboard Literature (2 units)
Piano majors only. A historical survey of the standard repertoire for the piano.

MUSIC 169. Instrumental Techniques and Materials (2 units)
Prerequisites: MUSIC 43, 158A or B, pass conducting proficiency, MUSIC 121-127A. Offered spring semester only. Principles, procedures, literature, and materials for use in instrumental music programs in the public schools. (Expenses for off-campus visits will be incurred by student.)

MUSIC 170A. Music of the Americas: Latin America (3 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Examination of the musics of Latin America with special emphasis on art-music and its relationship to folk-popular musics as influenced by social, ideological, and political cross-currents. G.E. Integration IC.

MUSIC 170B. Music of the Americas: United States (3 units)
Representative styles and genres of music in the United States with particular attention to social contexts of repertories and music interactions between elite and popular traditions.

MUSIC 171. Introduction to the World's Music (3 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Exploration of selected musics of the world from the perspective of ethnomusicology or study of music as an aesthetic communication that possesses meaning only in relation to specific, situated sociocultural contests. Study of selected musical forms and their relationship to social formations. G.E. Integration IC.

MUSIC 172. Vocal Literature (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41. For students who major or minor in vocal music. A historical survey of the standard repertoire for the voice.

MUSIC 175T. Topics in Instrumental Pedagogy (2 units)
Principles, playing and teaching procedures, and materials for teaching individual instrumental (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, viola, violoncello, contrabass, harp, guitar, percussion) lessons to students of varying skill and artistic levels.

MUSIC 179. Choral Techniques and Materials (2 units)
Prerequisites: passed piano proficiency; MUSIC 43, MUSIC 158A or 158B. Principles, choral techniques, literature, and materials for use in vocal music programs in the public schools. (Expenses for off-campus visits will be incurred by student.)

MUSIC 179L. Choral Techniques Lab (1 unit)
Prerequisites: passed piano proficiency. Piano skills necessary for music educators. Students learn to read opera scores at the piano, lead rehearsals from the piano, play vocal exercises for choirs, and increase sightreading ability. Concurrent enrollment in MUSIC 179 required. CR/NC grading only.

MUSIC 180. Children's Choirs: Techniques and Literature (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 155. Basic overview of materials, techniques, and procedures applicable to the choral experience at the elementary level. Topics include conducting for the elementary school choral director, vocal pedagogy for children, and a survey of appropriate choral literature.

MUSIC 181. Jazz Composition and Arranging (3 units)
Prerequisites: MUSIC 43; junior music major in the Jazz Option or permission of instructor. Study of composition and arranging in the jazz idiom. Skills and creative concepts necessary for the design and creation of jazz arrangements for various-sized ensembles.

MUSIC 182. Basic Arranging (2 units)
Prerequisites: MUSIC 1B, 42. Basic course in scoring and arranging for band, orchestra and choral ensembles. Ranges, transposition, technical capabilities of band and orchestra instruments and the voice. Emphasis on arranging for musicians typically found in elementary and secondary schools. Use of computer notation and sequencing programs. (Course fee, $15)

MUSIC 183. Advanced Choral Arranging (3; max total 6 units; repeatable for credit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 182. Advanced course in scoring and arranging for various sizes and types of choral ensembles. Studies in depth composing and arranging in various choral idioms. Use of computer notation and sequencing programs. (Course fee, $15)

MUSIC 184. Advanced Instrumental Arranging (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 182. Advanced course in scoring and arranging for band and orchestra instruments. Studies in depth problems of idiomatic writing for the instruments and sonorities. Use of computer notation and sequencing programs. (Course fee, $15)

MUSIC 185A. Lyric Diction I (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 41 and successful completion of one year of MUSIC 39 or 139 or permission of instructor. Introductory study of the international phonetic alphabet and its application to singing in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and Latin.

MUSIC 185B. Lyric Diction II (2 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 185A. For vocal performance majors or with permission of instructor. Singers' advanced diction studies of English, Italian, German, French, and Spanish, as well as other languages used in the standard Western art music vocal repertoire.

MUSIC 186. Arranging and Composing Using MIDI (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 182. Arranging and composing using MIDI sequencing. Students record and edit musical material in the MIDI/computer-based production facility. Finished works will be exported to music notation programs and recorded to digital audio media. Works will be performed in pubic concerts.

MUSIC 187. Pop Music: Jazz and Rock (3 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Survey of styles, trends, and the musical and cultural roots of pop music, jazz, and rock in the United States, Great Britain, and the West Indies. Guidelines for listening to and writing about music. G.E. Integration IC.

MUSIC 190. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6 units)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.

MUSIC 191. Readings in Music (1-3; max total 6 units)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. In-depth readings and discussions in individual conferences; subjects to be selected by students and their advisers. May be preliminary research in connection with thesis topic. Approved for RP grading.

MUSIC 198. Senior Recital or Project (1 or 2 units)
Prerequisites: passed piano proficiency, senior standing, approval of major applied music instructor or adviser. Preparation and presentation of a satisfactory senior recital or project.

GRADUATE COURSES

(See Catalog Numbering System.)

Music (MUSIC)

MUSIC 204. Graduate Music Theory Survey (3 units)
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Required of all M.A. candidates in music. A comprehensive survey of the disciplines of harmony, counterpoint, and analysis, with respect to the music of the 18th through 20th centuries, with an emphasis on review and reinforcement. Topics include species counterpoint, figured bass, voice leading, principles of Schenkerian analysis, and basic atonal and twelve-tone theory.

MUSIC 210. Studies in Performance
(2; max total 6 units; repeatable for credit)
Open only to master's degree students majoring in performance or to other master's students by permission of instructor. Prerequisite: MUSIC 220. Individually directed studies in performing or conducting instrumental or vocal music; historical and theoretical interpretation applied in preparation for public recitals and concerts of works from the standard literature of all periods in the student's major performance area. Approved for RP grading.

MUSIC 211. Graduate Performance Ensemble
(2; max total 6 units; repeatable for credit)
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Ensemble performance of instrumental or choral music with emphasis on historical and theoretical interpretation of advanced level literature. This course includes technical, stylistic, and aesthetic elements of musical literature, rehearsal, and public performance.

MUSIC 219T. Seminar in Music Education
(3; max total 9 units if no course repeated)
Topics of special concern to the teacher or administrator. Individual research projects and discussion of problems in the area of literature, philosophy, and practices of teaching, ad ministration, and curriculum planning.

MUSIC 220. Seminar in Research Methods and Bibliography (3 units)
Bibliography, sources, and research techniques necessary for graduate study in music. Individual projects and research; satisfies graduate writing requirement. Required of all students working for the master's degree in music.

MUSIC 221. Foundations of Music Education (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 220. Historical, curricular, and philosophical foundations of music education. Research in learning theories, teaching strategies, and concept development. Evaluation of contemporary trends and tech niques in methodology.

MUSIC 234. Studies in Composition (2; max total 6 units)
Open only to master's degree students majoring in composition. Prerequisite: MUSIC 220. Individually directed studies in composition with contemporary techniques of an extended work equivalent in substance to a sonata, cantata, or other composition of major proportions. Approved for RP grading.

MUSIC 240T. Advanced Topics in Music Theory (3 units; repeatable for credit)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 204 and 220. Advanced analytical study of specific composers, genres, styles, and diverse interdisciplinary approaches to music theory. A final paper or project is a central component of this course.

MUSIC 257A. Seminar in Choral Conducting (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 158A or 158B or equivalent. Advanced study of conducting choral music in the Western tradition. Students will organize and complete projects that address the preparation, interpretation, rehearsing, and performance of choral music.

MUSIC 258T. Topical Seminars in Conducting (1-3; max 6 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 158A or 158B. Advanced studies in selected topics related to conducting. Projects with particular attention to rehearsal techniques, score preparation, and interpretation.

MUSIC 259T. Topical Seminars in Vocal Music (1-3; max 6 units)
The study of advanced level song literature, song interpretation, and performance practice as applied to standard and special vocal repertoire.

MUSIC 260T. Topical Seminars in Music History (3; max 9 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 220. Current methods, resources, and issues in music history, with application to specific topics focusing on major Western composers, major genres, landmark works or repertories, issues in musical aesthetics and criticism.

MUSIC 267. Seminar in Contemporary Music (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 220. Critical and analytical study of the sources, selected works, and composers of the 20th century, with particular emphasis on avant-garde movements and schools. A term paper will be a central requirement for successful completion of this course.

MUSIC 269T. Topical Seminars in Instrumental Music (1-3; max 6 units)
The study of advanced level instrumental literature, score interpretation, and performance practices as they apply to standard and special in strumental literature.

MUSIC 277. Seminar in American Music (3 units)
Prerequisite: MUSIC 220. Critical and analytical study of the historical sources, selected works, and composers in the United States from 1620 A.D. to the present. A term paper will be a central requirement for successful completion of this course.

MUSIC 279T. Topical Seminars in Choral Music (1-3; max 6 units)
The study of advanced level choral literature, performance practices, interpretation, and rehearsal techniques pertinent to various choral ensembles.

MUSIC 290. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6 units)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.

MUSIC 291. Readings in Music (1-3 units; repeatable for credit)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Readings in depth and discussions in individual conferences; subject to be selected by students and their advisers. May be preliminary research in connection with thesis topic. Approved for RP grading.

MUSIC 298. Project (3 units)*
See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Completion of an approved project appropriate to the candidate's area of specialization. To be used in place of MUSIC 299 for majors in performance, composition, and as an option for majors in music education. The graduate recital, for performance majors, will consist of an approved program containing at least one hour of music. Approved for RP grading.

MUSIC 299. Thesis (3 units)*
Prerequisite: See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree. Approved for RP grading.

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* For 298C and 299C courses, see Graduate Studies.

IN-SERVICE COURSES

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Music (MUSIC)

MUSIC 307. Musical Instrument Repair (l; max total 3 units)
Maximum total credit 3 units, provided instrumental groups are not repeated. Criteria for selection; techniques for care and repair of music instruments. Instrumental grouping: brass and percussion; woodwind and strings; piano.

MUSIC 309T. Workshop: Vocational and Avocational Music Topics (1-3; max total 6 units)
Topics such as New State Music Textbooks, Elementary School Classroom Instruments, Folk Music and Dancing, Piano Teachers' Workshop, Brass Music, Creative Approaches to Classroom Music, Exploring Sound and Music.

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