Music Jazz & Commercial Music - Hofstra University

Music Jazz & Commercial Music from Hofstra University is a Campus Bachelor Music and Instruments degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. GOAL: 1) Students develop a background in music and musicianship that prepares them for a wide range of further educational and vocational activities that include music as a component. OBJECTIVES: 1. Students will gain skills in and understanding of analysis and composition of music in the style of the Common-Practice Period (1600-1900). 2. Students will gain musicianship skills in both aural perception and sight singing relative to music in the style of the Common-Practice Period (1600-1900). 3. Students will gain knowledge and understanding of historical musical styles, compositional techniques, and performance practices of various style periods. 4. Students will gain skills in basic keyboard techniques. 5. Students will gain skills and learn representative repertoire in a specific musical performance medium. GOAL: 2) Students develop performance and compositional skills that prepare them for professional careers as performers and teachers of jazz and commercial music . OBJECTIVES: 6. Students will gain advanced skills in and understanding of analysis of music in the style of the Common-Practice and Post-Common-Practice Periods. 7. Students will gain knowledge and understanding of historical musical styles, compositional techniques, and performance practice of Post Common-Practice Period (1900-present). 8. Students will learn ensemble techniques and representative repertoire in both large and small musical ensembles appropriate to their specific performance mediums. 9. Students will gain knowledge and understanding of historical musical styles, compositional techniques, and performance practice of jazz. 10. Students will further their attainment of skills and learning of representative repertoire in a specific performance medium on the intermediate level, leading to a Junior recital. GOAL: 3) Students are prepared for graduate study in the field. OBJECTIVES: 11. Students will gain skills in jazz improvisation and in conducting instrumental ensembles. 12. Students will gain skills in and understanding of songwriting, jazz scoring, and basic electronic music techniques. View more details on Hofstra University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Music and Instruments courses.