Music Department Learning Outcomes
1. Build performance skills in instrumental music, voice, piano, and/or guitar.
2. Discover how musical works are composed through the study of foundational elements:
melody, harmony, rhythm, form, instrumentation, and texture.
3. Develop an awareness of the aesthetic values in music and the roles music plays in the
aesthetics of various time periods, styles, and world regions.
4. Explore how music has evolved throughout history, and in specific styles and world regions.
5. Explore various career paths in music and the expectations of each field.
6. Enrich the community through interaction in the Arts.
Student Learning Outcomes--MUSIC
MUS 100
1. Analyze a musical performance or work based on specific musical elements: melody, rhythm,
harmony, timbre, texture, form.
2. Identify the style period of a musical piece by listening to it.
3. Identify the composer of a musical piece by listening to it.
4. Explain of the impact of nonmusical influences (i.e. political, environmental, historical events)
on music.
5. Compare and contrast the music of each style period (Medieval through Post-Modern) using
foundational elements of music.
MUS 101
1. Illustrate the correlation between the musical staff and the piano keyboard.
2. Analyze the chord progression of a musical excerpt.
3. Analyze written rhythms using established counting syllables.
4. Identify musical symbols for dynamics, tempo, and expression.
MUS 103
1. Discover voice leading errors in a four part musical excerpt.
2. Analyze a musical excerpt, labeling each chord with Roman numerals, labeling each cadence,
and circling and labeling non-chord tones.
3. Harmonize a four measure melody, including primary and secondary diatonic triads and the
dominant seventh chord in four-voice choral spacing. Elaborate appropriately with non-chord
tones.
MUS 104
1. Analyze a musical work for form, labeling cadences, key centers, and major sections and
themes. Explain the use of modulatory techniques.
2. Construct several Neapolitan sixths, German, French, and Italian augmented chords in
various keys.
3. Analyze a late 19th century musical score and explain any contemporary chord types and
instances of counterpoint, sequence, and expanded tonality.
MUS 106
1. Analyze a musical performance or work based on specific musical elements: melody, rhythm,
harmony, timbre, texture, form.
2. Identify the genre of a musical piece by listening to it.
3. Explain of the impact of nonmusical influences (i.e. political, environmental, historical events)
on music.
4. Compare and contrast the music of each period of Rock music using foundational elements of
music.
MUS 107
1. Analyze a musical performance or work based on specific musical elements: melody, rhythm,
harmony, timbre, texture, form.
2. Identify the genre of a musical piece by listening to it.
3. Explain of the impact of nonmusical influences (i.e. political, environmental, historical events)
on music.
4. Compare and contrast the music of each genre and period of American music using
foundational elements of music.
MUS 108
1. Differentiate between the musical styles of important instrumentalists and vocalists from
different periods of jazz history.
2. Analyze a musical performance or work based on specific musical elements: melody, rhythm,
harmony, timbre, texture, form.
3. Identify the sub-genre of a jazz or blues recording by listening to it.
4. Explain the impact of nonmusical influences (i.e. political, environmental, historical events)
on jazz and blues music.
MUS 109
1. Analyze a musical performance or work based on specific musical elements: melody, rhythm,
harmony, timbre, texture, form.
2. Identify the origin of a musical piece by listening to it.
3. Explain of the impact of nonmusical influences (i.e. political, environmental, historical events)
on music.
MUS 111
1. Name the lines/spaces on the grand staff and the keys on the keyboard.
2. Perform an easy piece of music at first sight with accurate pitches.
3. Perform an easy piece of music at first sight with accurate rhythms.
4. Perform easy piano literature in front of an audience with accurate pitches.
5. Perform easy piano literature in front of an audience with accurate rhythms.
MUS 112
1. Perform intermediate piano literature in front of an audience with accurate pitches.
2. Perform intermediate piano literature in front of an audience with accurate rhythms.
3. Perform intermediate piano literature in front of an audience incorporating expressive
details—phrasing and dynamics.
4. Transpose an easy piano piece up one whole step.
5. Perform scales correctly at a medium tempo.
MUS 113
1. Analyze and discuss children's music based on the foundational elements of music.
2. Perform a song in class using simple rhythmic and melodic instruments.
3. Teach a children's music lesson using a variety of appropriate methods and tools.
MUS 114
1. Analyze jazz chord symbols by spelling the names of pitches in a series of chords.
2. Perform an improvised solo over a modal chord progression using correct pitches.
3. Perform an improvised solo over a 12-bar blues chord progression using correct pitches.
4. Perform an improvised solo over a bebop chord progression using correct pitches.
5. Perform an improvised solo with good rhythmic phrasing.
6. Produce a characteristic jazz sound on an instrument.
7. Compare and contrast the styles of prominent jazz improvisers.
MUS 115
1. Differentiate, match, and reproduce a pitch played at the keyboard or sung.
2. Perform a basic song from standard English repertoire, demonstrating proper breath
support.
3. Describe the ten goals of good tone production—audibility, resonance, clarity, intelligibility,
purity of intonation, dynamic variety, vibrato, range, ease, and freedom.
MUS 116
1. Differentiate, match, and reproduce a pitch played at the keyboard or sung.
2. Demonstrate the techniques for singing the sounds for all IPA consonant symbols typically
found in English songs.
3. Analyze an English language song using IPA for both vowels and consonants and to indicate
appropriate “shaping” of vowel sounds to accommodate both range and tone.
4. Define and use the seven basic Italian vowel sounds and their IPA symbols.
MUS 118
1. Demonstrate improved technique on an instrument over the course of the term.
2. Perform a musical piece with correct pitches.
3. Perform a musical piece with correct rhythm.
4. Perform a musical piece with an appropriate sound on an instrument.
MUS 125
1. Name the lines/spaces on the grand staff and the frets of the guitar’s fingerboard.
2. Perform easy guitar music in front of an audience with accurate pitches.
3. Perform easy guitar music in front of an audience with accurate rhythms.
4. Demonstrate correct fingerplucking technique.
5. Construct an improvised solo over a 12-bar blues chord progression using correct pitches.
MUS 127
1. Perform intermediate guitar music in front of an audience with accurate pitches.
3. Perform intermediate guitar music in front of an audience with accurate rhythms.
4. Demonstrate advanced fingerpicking patterns correctly.
5. Demonstrate bar chords correctly.
6. Construct an improvised solo over a 12-bar blues chord progression using correct pitches.
MUS 150
1. Demonstrate improvement in diction in a performance of a song of classical repertoire,
based upon entry evaluation and the final evaluation of the term.
2. Demonstrate improvement in tone in a performance of a song of classical repertoire, based
upon entry evaluation and the final evaluation of the term.
3. Demonstrate improvement in breath control in a performance of a song of classical
repertoire, based upon entry evaluation and the final evaluation of the term.
4. Demonstrate improvement in style in a performance of a song of classical repertoire, based
upon entry evaluation and the final evaluation of the term.
MUS 175
1. Analyze and dictate simple rhythms in both simple and compound rhythms.
2. Analyze and dictate diatonic intervals.
3. Perform diatonic melodies using solfeggio syllables.
4. Analyze and dictate primary diatonic and submediant triads in major and minor modes.
MUS 176
1. Analyze and dictate syncopated rhythms in both simple and compound rhythms.
2. Analyze and dictate chromatic simple intervals.
3. Analyze and dictate diatonic compound intervals.
4. Perform diatonic melodies with leaps up to a P8 using solfeggio.
5. Analyze and dictate chord progression that incorporates secondary triads in major and minor
modes.
MUS 205
1. Perform selected choral repertoire with correct notes.
2. Perform selected choral repertoire with accuracy of intonation.
3. Perform selected choral repertoire with the appropriate balance.
4. Perform selected choral repertoire with accurate diction.
5. Describe and demonstrate a proper and helpful vocal warm-up session.
6. Demonstrate improvement of singing technique.
MUS 206
1. Perform intermediate to advanced level choral repertoire with correct notes.
2. Perform intermediate to advanced level choral repertoire with accuracy of intonation.
3. Perform intermediate to advanced level choral repertoire with appropriate balance.
4. Perform intermediate to advanced level choral repertoire with accurate diction.
5. Describe and demonstrate a proper and helpful vocal warm-up session.
6. Demonstrate improvement of singing technique.
MUS 210
1. Perform selected jazz ensemble repertoire with correct notes.
2. Perform selected jazz ensemble repertoire with accurate rhythm.
3. Perform selected jazz ensemble repertoire with proper articulation.
4. Perform selected jazz ensemble repertoire with good blend.
5. Demonstrate improvement of musical technique on student's instrument.
6. Improvise music using appropriate pitches, rhythms, and style.
MUS 211
1. Perform intermediate to advanced level jazz ensemble repertoire with correct notes.
2. Perform intermediate to advanced level jazz ensemble repertoire with accurate rhythm.
3. Perform intermediate to advanced level jazz ensemble repertoire with proper articulation.
4. Perform intermediate to advanced level jazz ensemble repertoire with good blend.
5. Demonstrate improvement of musical technique on student's instrument.
6. Improvise music at an intermediate to advanced level using appropriate pitches, rhythms,
and style.
7. Prepare an arrangement or original composition for performance by the Jazz Ensemble.
MUS 212
1. Perform selected ensemble repertoire with accuracy of pitch.
2. Perform selected ensemble repertoire with accuracy of intonation.
3. Perform selected ensemble repertoire with good blend.
4. Perform selected ensemble repertoire with accuracy of rhythm.
5. Demonstrate improvement of individual musical technique on an instrument.
MUS 214
1. Perform selected guitar ensemble repertoire with correct notes.
2. Perform selected guitar ensemble repertoire with accuracy of rhythm.
3. Perform selected guitar ensemble repertoire with symbiotic sound.
4. Demonstrate improvement of individual musical technique on the guitar.
MUS 253
1. Analyze musical excerpts, discovering instances of diatonic modes, pentatonic scales,
synthetic scales, extended tertian harmony, polychords, quartal, and secundal harmony.
2. Construct a 12x12 matrix as in preparation for composition of a work of twelve-tone
serialism.
3. Analyze works from the Baroque and Classical periods for elements of form and harmonic
techniques.