Music - Mercer County Community College

Music from Mercer County Community College is a Campus Associate Music degree that prepares you for a Vocational Programs career. The Music A.S. option of the Performing Arts program provides the prospective graduate with the theoretical and practical training necessary to transfer at the junior level in most baccalaureate music programs by way of a comprehensive curriculum that encompasses the same rigor and scope as that encountered in the first two years of a typical four-year program. Core curriculum requirements include four semesters of Music Theory studies encompassing ear training and sight singing; two semesters of Music History; four semesters of piano training; four semesters of one-on-one study of a primary instrument (or voice) with a highly trained and well credentialed private instructor; four semesters of participation in one or more of the program's performing ensembles. Additional course offerings in jazz history, jazz improvisation, music business, and digital recording technology further prepare many music majors for a wider variety of transfer options and eventual career choices. Successful graduates of the program will be able to: demonstrate a professional level of fluency in both the reading and writing of musical notation; demonstrate a working knowledge of the theoretical principles that underlie all the primary genres of music of Western culture, including scale and chord construction; the tonal system of keys and chord relationships; harmonic analysis; figured bass; the principles and procedures of four-part writing; and modulation; analyze excerpts of musical compositions, working from a printed score, on the levels of harmony, rhythm, melodic contour, phrase structure, and large scale formal structure; notate short melodic fragments of two to four measures in length upon hearing them performed; sing at sight melodies of intermediate difficulty in both major and minor keys; identify and distinguish the major periods in the history of Western music from the Middle Ages into the 21st century and cite the primary composers whose works exemplify the stylistic trends of each period; demonstrate a level of proficiency at the piano keyboard suitable for teaching, arranging, composing, and analyzing music; cultivate and demonstrate a level of proficiency on a chosen primary instrument (or voice) suitable for transfer to a baccalaureate music program; apply his/her instrumental or vocal skill in the context of ensemble performance. View more details on Mercer County Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Music courses.