Changes to Intro/Advanced Comp & Ear-Training Coming in Fall '25

Starting in Fall '25, Music has made some changes to Intro to Composition/Advanced Composition, in addition to the Ear-Training sequence: 

Intro & Advanced Composition are Now Undergraduate Composition

Introduction to Composition & Advanced Composition have been changed from two separate courses into one new, topics course called Undergraduate Composition/MUSI3239UN. Undergraduate Composition can now be taken up to 4 times as an elective and students will know in advance what type of instrumentation the course will be composing for.

Ear-Training is now Musicianship

The Ear-Training I - IV sequence has been replaced by Musicianship. The new Musicianship courses are:

Introduction to Musicianship 
Musicianship: Rhythm
Musicianship: Melody
Musicianship: Harmony

Like their Ear-Training predecessor, the new courses are 1-credit classes that meet for 50 minutes, twice per week. But unlike Ear-Training, these topics-oriented Musicianship courses can be taken in any order and at any time during your undergraduate course of study. There is no placement exam and there are no co-requisites.

Students in Musicianship courses will collaborate with faculty to create solo and group activities that simultaneously accommodate and challenge the beginning, intermediate, and advanced music making experience, regardless of music interest.

Musicianship Course Descriptions:

• Introduction to Musicianship/MUSI1350UN: This course is designed for students who have little or no experience with playing, performing, reading, studying, composing, or improvising music. Students will be introduced to both skills and concepts that will enable them to participate in music making and deepen their appreciation of all types of music. 
• Musicianship: Rhythm/MUSI2351UN: In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will participate in solo and group activities and projects with a focus on musical beat, meter, and rhythm patterns, developing a sense of steady and changing tempo, and an understanding how rhythm contributes to style in music. Rhythmic articulation, nuance, and interpretation will be developed through the impact of agogic, metric, tonal, and dynamic accent. This course combines the standards of conservatory musicianship with standards of critical thinking, here represented as critical listening. The repertoire for Musicianship: Rhythm covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.
• Musicianship: Melody/MUSI2352UN: In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will participate in solo and group activities and projects with a focus on scales, intervals, melodic contour and phrasing, and how they contribute to style in music. The repertoire for Musicianship: Melody covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.
• Musicianship: Harmony/MUSI2353UN: In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will examine the phenomenon of simultaneous sound with chords and chord progressions, and experience harmony’s impact on musical structure and style. Harmonic articulation, nuance, and interpretation will be developed through the exploration of agogic, metric, tonal, and dynamic accent. The repertoire for Musicianship: Harmony covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.