Code	Name	Description
MUS090	Music Department Salon	Attendance at bimonthly departmental sessions for selected lectures, discussions, presentations, and performances. May be repeated. Graded Pass/Fail.
MUS101	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...
MUS107	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.
MUS110	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.
MUS111	Analysis and Composition of Popular Music	Critical exploration of popular music, focusing on a handson approach—“learning by doing.” Listening critically/analytically to a vast popular repertory, doing composition exercises based on strategies and tools discussed, and writing analytical ess...
MUS112	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.
MUS114	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...
MUS115	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.
MUS116	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.
MUS117	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.
MUS122	America's Music and Media	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...
MUS123	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.
MUS125	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...
MUS130	Class Guitar	Introduction to guitar through folk music.
MUS131	Class Piano	For beginning piano student. Introduction to elements of music via the keyboard.
MUS132	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.
MUS133	Class Piano-Pop/Jazz Styles	Music 133 is an introduction to piano technique using both traditional notation and pop/jazz chord symbols. Upon completion of this course, students will have the basic knowledge to successfully interpret and perform pop/rock/jazz and other chord-bas...
MUS134	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 thro...
MUS138	Special Topics in Music	Selected topics in music not covered in the music program. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
MUS202	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.
MUS203	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...
MUS204	Magic in Classical Music & Film	Explores how meaning is created and expressed through classical music “texts” from multimodal genres, such as ballet, opera, programmatic orchestral music, and film. Considers historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts, as well as modes of producti...
MUS205	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.
MUS206	Selected Topics in Vocal Peformance	Focuses on a variety of topics related to the voice and vocal performance.
MUS207	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.
MUS208	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...
MUS209	Hearing Paris in the Belle Époque, 1870–1914	Explores the musical soundscapes of Paris from the Franco-Prussian War to the eve of the Great War. Emphasizes the cultural and aesthetic contexts of music, including topics on exoticism, antiquity, fashion, gender, and sports. Focuses on musical ven...
MUS211	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.
MUS213	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...
MUS214	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...
MUS217	Soundscapes	No Description Set
MUS221	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.
MUS224	Music and Religion	Explores major religious and cultural trends in the history of the West through the lens of twelve choral masterworks. Considers the sources and cultural functions of the texts, the spiritual or philosophical outlook of the composer, and the ways ava...
MUS225	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...
MUS226	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.
MUS228	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...
MUS229	Anthropology of Music	A general introduction to the field of ethnomusicology. Includes hands-on workshops on various non-Western musical traditions and ethnographic projects on the local music scene.
MUS230	Class Guitar II (Intermediate Level)	For the intermediate level guitarist not yet ready for private instruction.
MUS231	Conducting Fundamentals	Essentials of instrumental and choral conducting. Rehearsal techniques and practical experience in directing musical groups.
MUS232	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.
MUS233	Class Voice II	For the intermediate singer who is not yet ready for private instruction. A continuation of the groundwork learned in Class Voice (MUS 132).
MUS235	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...
MUS236	Music and the Mind	Introduction to the field of music cognition, providing a survey of theoretical, cultural, and experimental research. Combines ideas from music studies, cognitive sciences, psychology, linguistics, and neurosciences to explore how and why we make sen...
MUS238	Special Topics in Music	Selected topics in music not covered in the music program. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
MUS304	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.
MUS306	Introduction to Composition	Introduction of materials and techniques of acoustic composition through readings, listening assignments, composition exercises, and performances.
MUS307	Composition	Directed projects in various styles for traditional and/or electronic media. May be repeated for credit.
MUS310	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...
MUS313	Advanced Music Production	Continuation of Music 213. Students will delve more deeply into audio processing techniques such as eq, compression, synthesis, sound design, sample transformation, mixing and mastering, in the service of producing several original compositions. In a...
MUS338	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.
MUS345	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...
MUS350	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.
MUS388	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.
MUS395	Independent Study	No Description Set
MUS400	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.
MUS401	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...
MUS402	Honors Thesis/Project	Guided research and preparation for thesis or project in performance, composition, theory/analysis, musicology.
MUS406	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...

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