| MUS 090 | Music Department Salon | Attendance at bimonthly departmental sessions for selected lectures, discussions, presentations, and performances. May be repeated. Graded Pass/Fail. |
| MUS 095 | Repertoire/Colloquim Class | Attendance at weekly repertoire/colloquium class and selected performances, lectures or presentations. Enrollees taking private lessons must perform in class at least once during the semester. May be repeated. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. |
| MUS 95 | Repertoire/Colloquim Class | Attendance at weekly repertoire/colloquium class and selected performances, lectures or presentations. Enrollees taking private lessons must perform in class at least once during the semester. May be repeated. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. |
| MUS 101 | Listening to Music: An Introduction to the Western Classical Tradition | Refines listening skills through study of selected major composers, styles, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Explores music from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras, including works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Stra... |
| MUS 107 | Fundamentals of Music | For students with little or no previous training in theory or piano. Practical understanding of intervals, scales, keys, chord structures, and rhythm, using keyboard and sight-singing as vehicles of instruction. Does not count toward music major. |
| MUS 109 | Elementary Musicianship | Proficiency-based study of sight singing, ear training, rhythm reading, and other essential musicianship skills for majors, minors, and advanced non majors. A prerequisite for all theory study. May be satisfied by examination. |
| MUS 110 | Tonal Harmony I: Common Practice Period | Entry-level music theory course. Study and application of harmonic practice in Western music of 17th and 18th centuries by means of original compositions and analysis of selected literature. Continuation of musicianship exercises from Music 109. |
| MUS 111 | Analysis and Composition of Popular Music | Critical exploration of popular music, focusing on a handson approachlearning by doing. Listening critically/analytically to a vast popular repertory, doing composition exercises based on strategies and tools discussed, and writing analytical essays. |
| MUS 112 | Recording Techniques | Introduction to the technical foundations of audio engineering and recording designed to give students a set of skills needed to record, mix, and master musical projects using microphones, pre-amps, mixers, and digital audio workstations. |
| MUS 114 | Popular Music of the 1970s and 1980s | Discusses the historical developments in popular music of the 70s and 80s, and the musics' cultural and social impact and overarching discourses. Through a series of papers, students will investigate how the music of these eras influenced and was inf... |
| MUS 115 | The Jazz Tradition | For general student. Survey of cultural history of jazz; jazz styles from 1917 to present; and evolution of jazz from African music, music of slavery, ragtime, and blues. Includes concert attendance and performance project. |
| MUS 116 | Music Scene | Sections are designed each semester around on- and off-campus concerts. Students consider historical, social, and cultural issues particular to each concert and interact with visiting artists and University of Richmond's ensemble in residence. |
| MUS 117 | Salsa Meets Jazz | For general student. Traces influx of Latin-American music into North American jazz. Connects music and dances of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Brazil to their subsequent synthesis in jazz. |
| MUS 122 | America's Music | Topically-based survey of media and technological innovations that have facilitated the creation and distribution of diverse American musical forms from the late-19th century through the early 21st. Investigates changes in the production and consumpt... |
| MUS 123 | Meaning and Music | Explores musical meaning in Western classical traditions. Focuses on representations of identity, such as ability, race, gender, and sexuality, in genres including symphonic music, opera, ballet, piano music, and film scores. |
| MUS 125 | Indonesian Theater and Music | This course will be a highly interdisciplinary introduction into the rich and complexly interconnected traditions of theater and music from the island nation of Indonesia. Students will study the history and form of various traditions and partake in... |
| MUS 130 | Class Guitar | Introduction to guitar through folk music. |
| MUS 131 | Class Piano | For beginning piano student. Introduction to elements of music via the keyboard. |
| MUS 132 | Class Voice | For the beginning voice student. Introduction to the basic elements of vocal technique through the study of body and breath control, vocal exercises, beginning repertoire, and performance experience. |
| MUS 133 | Class Piano-Pop/Jazz Styles | Upon completion of this course, students will have the basic knowledge to
successfully interpret and perform pop/rock/jazz and other chord-based styles. |
| MUS 134 | Songbirds and Sirens | Examines the ways in which performers, composters, and operatic works shape and relfect cultural attitudes about gender and music. The interdisciplinary nature of opera, which combines text, music, and theatrical performance, will be considered throu... |
| MUS 137 | Gender, Sex, and the Romantic Piano | A cultural history of the nineteenth-century piano that examines composers, performers, and musical works in the context of social and cultural events. Performance of piano music at students own level. Analysis of texts and images to consider how aes... |
| MUS 138 | Special Topics in Music | Selected topics in music not covered in the music program. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. |
| MUS 201 | Documents of Music History | Introduction to primary sources (manuscript and printed scores, composers' writings, and concert reviews) used in music study and research. By focusing on the recurring themes of creation, dissemination, and consumption of musical works, students wil... |
| MUS 202 | Global Rhythms | Exploration of repertoires from various global music traditions. Performance of traditional instruments from Asia and Africa and participation in performances and workshops with expert native performers. No prior experience necessary. |
| MUS 203 | Musical Exoticism | Studies the conditions under which misperception and appropriation occur, under what conditions can mutually beneficial interactions take hold, and how can future musics may celebrate the potential of cultural difference without falling into exotifyi... |
| MUS 205 | Diction for Singers | Study of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and its application to singing diction in a variety of languages. Preparation and performance of works in the languages being studied. |
| MUS 206 | Selected Topics in Vocal Performance | Focuses on a variety of topics related to the voice and vocal performance. |
| MUS 207 | Musical Theatre and Opera Scene Workshop | Study of stage techniques for the singer applied to various scenes from operatic and musical theater repertoire resulting in staged performance by class members. May be repeated for credit. |
| MUS 208 | Global Pop | Focuses on popular music from outside the Euro-American cultural sphere. Uses methodologies and theories from ethnomusicology, cultural studies and anthropology to critically investigate the emergence of so-called popular musics around the globe begi... |
| MUS 211 | Tonal Harmony II: Chromaticism | Continuation of MUS 110. Study and application of harmonic practice in Western music of the 18th and 19th centuries by means of original compositions and analysis of selected literature. Continuation of musicianship exercises from Music 109. |
| MUS 213 | Any Sound You Can Imagine: Recording, Transforming and Organizing Sound | Introduces students to the techniques, tools, aesthetic ideas, and traditions of organizing sound in meaningful ways using computers. Students will learn recording techniques, principles of digital audio, and techniques of audio transformation and or... |
| MUS 214 | Jazz Arranging | Comprehensive study of evolution of jazz arranging and composition from 1920s to present. Score analysis of representative works by Sammy Nestico, Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, and others. Extensive listening. Students will arrange for small and large... |
| MUS 217 | Soundscapes | No Description Set |
| MUS 221 | Music in Film | For general student. Study of interaction of music and visual image in Hollywood film; emphasis on nature of musical meaning, music and association, and music as a cultural code. |
| MUS 225 | The Music Industry: History, Technology, and Promotion | Overview of how the twentieth and twenty-first music business has worked in financial, legal, and artistic terms; how music technologies of recording, reproduction, and consumption operate; and how musical tastes and cognition affect the ways in whic... |
| MUS 226 | Music and Media in Popular Culture | Exploration of topics and issues relating to intersections of music, media, technology and popular culture. Taught through the examination of scholarly methodologies and theories from musicology, media, sociology, aesthetics, and popular culture. |
| MUS 228 | Historical Musicology | introduces students to research methodologies in historical musicology using case studies drawn from Western art music. Emphasis is placed on discovering and using primary sources, interpreting contemporary scholarship, and articulating ideas through... |
| MUS 229 | Anthropology of Music | Third in series of courses devoted to the exploration of significant topics and issues, methodologies, and theories applicable to historical and ethnographic music studies. Taught through examination of a broad cross selection of musical styles, genr... |
| MUS 230 | Class Guitar II (Intermediate Level) | For the intermediate level guitarist not yet ready for private instruction. |
| MUS 231 | Conducting Fundamentals | Essentials of instrumental and choral conducting. Rehearsal techniques and practical experience in directing musical groups. |
| MUS 232 | Intermediate Class Piano | Piano study in a class setting for students who have passed MUS 131 or have had some private study in the past. The course assumes a sound knowledge of basic piano technique and music reading. |
| MUS 235 | I Want My MTV: Music Video and the Transformation of the Music Industry | Engagement with early music videos, as well as corresponding albums and related cultural multimedia as primary sources, to analyze the critical relationships between the music and images that premiered on the MTV network in its first decades. Situati... |
| MUS 238 | Special Topics in Music | Selected topics in music not covered in the music program. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. |
| MUS 304 | Music Entrepreneurship | Building a career in music and developing skills beyond musicianship that contribute to success in the field of music. Considers the specialized skills and diversified experiences required for the next generation of cultural leaders. |
| MUS 306 | Introduction to Composition | Introduction of materials and techniques of acoustic composition through readings, listening assignments, composition exercises, and performances. |
| MUS 307 | Composition | Directed projects in various styles for traditional and/or electronic media. May be repeated for credit. |
| MUS 310 | Managing Performing Arts Organizations | For those interested in managing and leading a performing arts organization, this course is a review of topics essential for successful management of a performing arts organization. Includes nonprofit and alternative organizational structure, organiz... |
| MUS 313 | Advanced Music Production | No Description Set |
| MUS 338 | Special Topics in Music History | Selected topics such as musical genre, works of specific composers, or techniques of teaching and learning music. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. |
| MUS 345 | Philanthropy in the Arts | Survey of strategies, tools and techniques involved in generating contributed income for arts organizations from private individuals, foundations, corporations, business, and government agencies. Central issues include underlying psychological and pr... |
| MUS 350 | Student Recital | Preparation and performance of a solo recital by students in applied study or composition. Non-capstone recitals do not count towards the music major. |
| MUS 388 | Individual Internship | No more than 1.5 units of internship in any one department and 3.5 units of internship overall may be counted toward required degree units. |
| MUS 395 | Independent Study | No Description Set |
| MUS 400 | Capstone Seminar | First half of a one-year capstone experience for the senior music major. Seminar on topics in musicology, music performance, music theory, composition, music production, music industry. |
| MUS 401 | Capstone Project | Second half of a one-year capstone experience for the senior music major. Guided completion of thesis or project in performance, composition, theory/analysis, musicology, music production, music industry. Concurrent registration for applied study may... |
| MUS 402 | Honors Thesis/Project | Guided research and preparation for thesis or project in performance, composition, theory/analysis, musicology. |
| MUS 406 | Summer Undergraduate Research | Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 6 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at leas... |