Music (MUS)

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course helps students develop a deeper enjoyment of music by cultivating an understanding of the basic elements of music and their combination into various forms, styles, and genres. The focus is on developing listening skills and gaining an appreciation for music from multiple historical periods through a survey of Western art music, tracing its development from the Middle Ages to the present.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 100

Cal-GETC Area(s): AREA-3A

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course helps students develop a deeper enjoyment of music by cultivating an understanding of the basic elements of music and their combination into various forms, styles, and genres. The focus is on developing listening skills and gaining an appreciation for music from multiple historical periods through a survey of Western art music, tracing its development from the Middle Ages to the present.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Enrichment Program.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 100

Cal-GETC Area(s): AREA-3A

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course introduces the primary elements of music and develops beginning-level skills in handwritten musical notation and aural skills. Students will be introduced to the arrangement of the keyboard and musical staff, the basic properties of sound, intervals, diatonic scales, and diatonic chords.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 110

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course introduces and develops the basic concepts of music theory including rhythm and meter, basic properties of sound, intervals, diatonic scales and triads, diatonic chords, basic cadential formulas and phrase structures, the dominant seventh chord, figured bass symbols, and non-harmonic tones. Students develop fluency with the language of music and handwritten notation through guided composition and analysis.

Recommended Preparation: MUS-101 and concurrent enrollment in MUS-175 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following performing ensemble courses: MUS-201, MUS-203, MUS-205, MUS-210, or MUS-212 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following piano courses: MUS-111 or MUS-112.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 120

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course builds upon the material learned in Music Theory I. The course will focus on an introduction to two-part counterpoint, four-part chorale voice leading, diatonic harmony, and an introduction to secondary harmonies and modulation.

Prerequisite: MUS-103 (with a grade of C or better).

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in MUS-176 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following piano courses: MUS-111 or MUS-112 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following performance ensemble courses: MUS-201, MUS-203, MUS-205, MUS-210, or MUS-212.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 130

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course examines the history of rock music, with an emphasis on its role in reflecting and shaping history and culture in the United States from the 1950s to today. Beginning music listening and appreciation skills and vocabulary are taught using historically important recordings in rock and other related popular music genres.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Cal-GETC Area(s): AREA-3A

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course is a survey of American musical styles including jazz, popular, and art music from colonial days to the present. The purpose of the course is to develop knowledge of music history, an understanding of elements of music, and an aesthetic appreciation of various styles.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Cal-GETC Area(s): AREA-3A

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course is a survey of American musical styles including jazz, popular, and art music from colonial days to the present. The purpose of the course is to develop knowledge of music history, an understanding of elements of music, and an aesthetic appreciation of various styles.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Enrichment Program.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Cal-GETC Area(s): AREA-3A

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course introduces students to the sound, history, and cultural contexts of jazz and blues music. Beginning music listening and appreciation skills and vocabulary are taught alongside a history of the genres, from their ancestor musics in Africa and the 19th century American South to modern 21st century jazz and blues artists.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Cal-GETC Area(s): AREA-3A

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course introduces students to the sound, history, and cultural contexts of jazz and blues music. Beginning music listening and appreciation skills and vocabulary are taught alongside a history of the genres, from their ancestor musics in Africa and the 19th century American South to modern 21st century jazz and blues artists.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Enrichment Program.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Cal-GETC Area(s): AREA-3A

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course introduces students to the indigenous music of cultures around the world. In addition to developing familiarity with basic musical concepts, this course is designed to assist students in developing an appreciation and respect for the cultures and music of Africa, China, Japan, Central Asia, India, Indonesia, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe, Native America, and the Caribbean as well as American folk traditions.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Cal-GETC Area(s): AREA-3A

AA/AS General Education: AA/AS C

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course offers individual piano instruction to students who have little or no previous musical training. Students will develop basic piano technique, perform easy piano music, and learn basic concepts of music theory, including how to read musical notation.

Other Enrollment Criteria: Access to 88-key digital or acoustic piano (available on campus)

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 170

Course Related Content Group: Keyboard Skills

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course builds on existing beginning piano technique. Students continue to develop piano proficiency, perform piano music at an intermediate level, and expand their knowledge of music theory.

Prerequisite: MUS-111 (with a grade of C or better) or demonstrate intermediate-level proficiency on piano by audition.

Other Enrollment Criteria: Access to 88-key digital or acoustic piano (available on campus)

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS-171

Course Related Content Group: Keyboard Skills

1.5 Unit (ACT 48-54)

This course is one part of a two-semester package of Beginning Voice Classes. The two may be taken in any order. This section focuses on posture, breathing, tone production, and resonance. Students learn about the physiology of healthy singing through both group and solo performance.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Course Related Content Group: Group Lessons

1.5 Unit (ACT 48-54)

This course is one part of a two-semester package of Beginning Voice Classes. The two may be taken in any order. This section focuses on diction, style, and expression. Students learn about the physiology of healthy singing through both group and solo performance.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Course Related Content Group: Group Lessons

0.5 Units (LAB 24-27)

This course provides individualized study on an instrument, developing appropriate techniques and repertoire through private instruction. Solo performance skills will be progressively developed, and students will be evaluated through a juried performance.

Prerequisite: Demonstrate proficiency on a musical instrument by audition and/or interview. Audition requirement may be satisfied by audition for enrollment in MUS-201, MUS-203, MUS-210, or MUS-212.

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in an instrumental performance ensemble (MUS-201, MUS-203, MUS-210, MUS-212), an appropriate music theory course (MUS-103, MUS-104, MUS-253, MUS-254), an appropriate musicianship course (MUS-175, MUS-176, MUS-277, MUS-278), and a piano course (MUS-111 or MUS-112).

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 160

Times may be taken for credit: 4

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course offers individualized guitar instruction within a group setting to students who have little or no previous training. A variety of musical styles are used to develop basic guitar technique and learn basic concepts of music, including music notation.

Other Enrollment Criteria: The student must provide and maintain a classical or acoustic guitar for their own use for the duration of this course.

Transfers to CSU only

Course Related Content Group: Group Lessons

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course builds on beginning guitar technique. Students develop skills to the intermediate level and learn music from a variety of genres that reinforces various techniques and left hand positions.

Prerequisite: MUS-125 (with a grade of C or better).

Other Enrollment Criteria: The student must provide and maintain a classical or acoustic guitar for their own use for the duration of this course.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Course Related Content Group: Group Lessons

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course is a comprehensive survey of business practices in the music industry. Students will learn real-world applications of entrepreneurial, legal, business, and artistic considerations, including bringing music to market, current recording industry trends, and contract negotiation. Topics include music publishing, copyright, licensing, royalties, unions and guilds, agents and managers, artists and management, the record industry, contracts, studios, engineers, and marketing.

Transfers to CSU only

0.5 Units (LAB 24-27)

This course provides individualized study of the appropriate techniques and repertoire for the voice through private instruction. Solo performance skills will be progressively developed, and students will be evaluated through a juried performance.

Prerequisite: Demonstrate proficiency by audition and/or interview. Audition requirement may be satisfied by audition for enrollment in MUS-205.

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in a vocal performance ensemble (MUS-205), an appropriate music theory course (MUS-103, MUS-104, MUS-253, MUS-254), an appropriate musicianship course (MUS-175, MUS-176, MUS-277, MUS-278), and a piano course (MUS-111 or MUS-112).

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 160

Times may be taken for credit: 4

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course applies and develops the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic materials of Music Theory I through ear training, sight singing, analysis, and dictation. The course includes dictation of simple diatonic melodies, chords, basic rhythms, and singing of diatonic melodies.

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in MUS-103 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following piano classes: MUS-111 or MUS-112.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 125

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course applies and develops the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic materials of Music Theory II through ear training, sight singing, analysis, and dictation. The course builds on the material of Musicianship I with more challenging melodies, rhythms, and dictation of chord progressions.

Prerequisite: MUS-175 (with a grade of C or better).

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in MUS-104 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following piano classes: MUS-111 or MUS-112.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 135

1 Unit (LBE 48-54)

This course is a conducted instrumental ensemble focused on the study, rehearsal and public performance of symphonic orchestral literature encompassing a variety of styles from various musical periods. Different repertoire will be chosen each semester as appropriate to the ensemble.

Prerequisite: Demonstrate proficiency on a musical instrument by audition and/or interview.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 180

Course Related Content Group: Ensembles: Instrumental

Times may be taken for credit: 4

1 Unit (LBE 48-54)

This course is a conducted musical ensemble for woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists consisting of the study, rehearsal, and public performance of concert band literature with an emphasis on the development of skills needed to perform within an ensemble.

Prerequisite: Demonstrate proficiency on a musical instrument by audition and/or interview.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 180

Course Related Content Group: Ensembles: Instrumental

Times may be taken for credit: 4

1 Unit (LBE 48-54)

This course is an auditioned collegiate choral ensemble that rehearses and performs choral music from a range of musical styles, including traditional literature from the Renaissance though Post-Modern style periods, as well as multi-cultural folk songs and select arrangements from Music Theater and Contemporary songs. The choir performs each semester, both on and off campus, including providing opportunities for solo and small ensemble singing.

Prerequisite: Demonstrate singing proficiency by audition and/or interview.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 180

Course Related Content Group: Ensembles: Vocal

Times may be taken for credit: 4

1 Unit (LBE 48-54)

This course is a collegiate jazz ensemble that rehearses and performs a variety of historical and modern styles in both large and combo-sized ensembles. Skills in improvisation are developed; no prior experience with improvisation is required. The ensemble performs publicly each semester, both on and off campus.

Prerequisite: Demonstrate proficiency on a musical instrument by audition or interview.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 180

Course Related Content Group: Ensembles: Jazz

Times may be taken for credit: 4

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course is an instrumental ensemble providing for the study, rehearsal, and public performance of instrumental chamber ensemble literature in a small group setting with an emphasis on the development of skills needed to perform within an ensemble. Different literature will be studied each semester as appropriate to the ensemble.

Prerequisite: Demonstrate proficiency on a musical instrument by audition and/or interview

Transfers to CSU only

C-ID: MUS 180

Course Related Content Group: Ensembles: Instrumental

Times may be taken for credit: 4

1-3 Unit (LAB 144-162)

This course is designed for the presentation of a musical. Students develop rehearsal and performance skills in the areas of singing, stage movement and acting, with an emphasis on developing singing/musical technique.

Prerequisite: By audition and/or interview.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

Course Related Content Group: Musical Theater Production

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course builds upon the material learned in Music Theory II. Students continue analyzing and writing progressively advanced music. Harmonic content extends to chromatic harmony, secondary chords, modulation, borrowed chords, and Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords.

Prerequisite: MUS-104 (with a grade of C or better).

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in MUS-277 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following piano classes: MUS-111 or MUS-112 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following performance ensemble courses: MUS-201, MUS-203, MUS-205, MUS-210, or MUS-212.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 140

3 Units (LEC 48-54)

This course builds upon the material learned in MUS 253. It introduces post-Romantic and 20th century techniques through composition and analysis. Topics include borrowed chords and modal mixture; chromatic mediants; Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords; 9th, 11th, and 13th, chords; altered chords and dominants; Impressionism; tone rows; set theory; pandiatonicism and polytonalism; and advanced approaches to meter and rhythm.

Prerequisite: MUS-253 (with a grade of C or better).

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment MUS-278 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following piano courses: MUS-111 or MUS-112 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following performance ensemble courses: MUS-201, MUS-203, MUS-205, MUS-210, or MUS-212.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 150

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course applies and develops the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic materials of Music Theory III through ear training, sight singing, analysis, and dictation. The course includes syncopation, triplet rhythms, and melodies and harmonies that incorporate close-key modulation and chromaticism. (formerly MUS 177)

Prerequisite: MUS-176 (with a grade of C or better).

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in MUS-253 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following piano classes: MUS-111 or MUS-112.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 145

1 Unit (LAB 48-54)

This course applies and develops the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic materials of Music Theory IV through ear training, sight singing, analysis, and dictation. The course includes rhythms, melodies, and harmonies used in Romantic, Impressionist, Modal, and Twentieth-Century music. (formerly MUS 178)

Prerequisite: MUS-277 (with a grade of C or better).

Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in MUS-254 and concurrent enrollment in one of the following piano classes: MUS-111 or MUS-112.

Transfers to both UC/CSU

C-ID: MUS 155

1-3 Unit (IS 16-54)

Students with previous course work in the program may do special projects that involve research and special study. The actual nature of the project must be determined in consultation with the supervising instructor.

Prerequisite: Two Music classes must be completed prior to enrollment; a Special Projects contract must be completed with the instructor prior to enrollment.

Transfers to CSU only