Music Fundamentals, History & Literature Course Descriptions
MUFHL 300
Introduction to Music
3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
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Hours: 54 hours LEC
Learning to listen to and understand the music of many historic periods and cultures through the features they share: sound sources, time frame, rhythm and meter, pitch, and structure. Designed for the student with no previous musical study.
MUFHL 308
Introduction to Music: Rock & Roll
3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
This course examines social, political, cultural and economic issues as they relate to the history of rock and roll music. Musical examples will develop listening skills and the ability to critique the music orally and in written form. This course is designed for students with no previous musical study.
MUFHL 310
Survey of Music History and Literature
3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
A detailed study of the development of music from antiquity to 1750, emphasizing the relation of music to the social, cultural, economic and political factors which produced it. Required for music majors and designed for those particularly interested in the humanities or the arts.
MUFHL 311
Survey of Music History and Literature
3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
History of music literature from the beginning of the classical period to music of today, emphasizing the relation of music to the social, cultural, economic and political factors which produced it. Required for music majors and designed for those particularly interested in the humanities or the arts.
MUFHL 315
Jazz History
3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
This course is an historical, comprehensive, and comparative listeners survey of the traditions of Jazz music from around the world and in the United States, in which concepts of ethnicity, ethnocentrism, racism, ageism, class differences, and gender issues will be addressed. Guided listening presentations will show how African and early African-American musical traditions have led to the development of various improvisational forms and styles, including Ragtime, Swing, Bebop, Free Jazz, Fusion, and Acid Jazz. Jazz style of the Americas, Asia, Africa, India, and Europe will be covered.
MUFHL 321
Basic Musicianship
3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
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Hours: 54 hours LEC
Learning to read and understand (visually, aurally, and kinesthetically) rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic notation, texture and form through keyboard and/or other instruments including voice as a window to music literacy and creativity. Recommended for students with limited musical experience or to those wishing a basic course prior to enrollment in MUFHL 400.
MUFHL 330
World Music
3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
This course is a comprehensive, comparative listeners' survey of the folk ethnic, dance, and ceremonial music traditions around the world and in the United States, in which concepts of ethnicity, ethnocentrism, racism, ageism, class differences, and gender issues will be addressed. Guided listening presentations will show how traditional forms and styles have led to the urban, professional music popular in many countries today know as "World Beat." Music of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe will be covered.
MUFHL 400
Music Theory
4 Units
Prerequisite: None.
Corequisite: MUIVI 340
General Education: CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
This course is the study of scales, intervals, triads, diatonic harmonies, part writing, rhythms, sight singing, ear training, dictation, history and performance. Analysis and composition will be taught. Reading music is a requirement for this course. This course is required for music majors.
MUFHL 401
Music Theory
4 Units
Prerequisite: MUFHL 400 with a grade of "C" or better.
Corequisite: MUIVI 341.
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
Study of scales, intervals, triads, diatonic harmonies, part writing, rhythms, sight singing, ear training, dictation, history and performance. Includes analysis and composition. Required for music majors. Students may wish to challenge the prerequisite on the basis of equivalent experience.
MUFHL 410
Advanced Music Theory
4 Units
Prerequisite: MUFHL 401 with a grade of "C" or better
Corequisite: MUIVI 350 or 351
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
This is the third course of a four course cycle. This course focuses on the study of scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, diatonic harmonies, part writing, phrase structures, cadences, non-harmonic tones, harmonic progressions, harmonization, rhythms, sight singing, ear training, dictation, history and performance. Analysis and composition skills will be taught. Required for music majors. Students may wish to challenge the prerequisite on the basis of equivalent experience. This course is required for music majors.
MUFHL 411
Advanced Music Theory
4 Units
Prerequisite: MUFHL 410 with a grade of "C" or better
Advisory: Concurrent enrollment in MUIVI 351
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
This is the fourth course of a four course cycle. This course focuses on techniques used in the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century and includes techniques used in the baroque through impressionist eras. Major topics include borrowed chords; augmented sixth chords; Neapolitan sixth chords; altered dominants; altered diminished seventh chords; chromatic mediants; modulation to foreign keys; and ninth, eleventh and thirteenth chords. Analysis and composition skills will be taught. Musicianship skills will be taught including sight singing and ear training of advanced rhythms, melodies and harmonic progressions. This course is required for music majors.
MUFHL 420
Beginning Jazz Theory
2 Units
Prerequisite: MUFHL 401 with a grade of "C" or better
Advisory: MUIVI 341
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 27 hours LEC; 27 hours LAB
This course introduces the elements of jazz theory including harmonic, melodic and formal analysis in the jazz idiom.
MUFHL 421
Advanced Jazz Theory
2 Units
Prerequisite: MUFHL 420 with a grade of "C" or better
Advisory: MUIVI 341.
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 27 hours LEC; 27 hours LAB
This course provides a continuation of jazz concepts presented in MUFHL 420. The emphasis will be advanced elements of jazz theory including harmonic, melodic and formal analysis in the jazz idiom.
MUFHL 495
Independent Studies in Music Fundamentals/History and Literature
1-3 Units
Prerequisite: None.
Course Transferable to CSU
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Hours: 54 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
An independent studies project involves an individual student or small group of students in study, research, or activities beyond the scope of regularly offered courses. See the current catalog section of "Special Studies" for full details of Independent Studies.
MUFHL 499
Experimental Offering in Music Fundamentals/History and Literature
.5-4 Units
Prerequisite: None
Course Transferable to CSU
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Hours: 18 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB