Comprehensive Overview of Commercial Music Major and Concentrations
This guide outlines the essential courses and requirements for students majoring in Commercial Music. Key components include courses in Music Technology, Jazz Studies, Vocal Fundamentals, and Commercial Piano, alongside General Education requirements in World Music and the Physics of Sound. It emphasizes the importance of practical experience through ensembles, applied proficiency, and technology in music. Offered classes include Commercial Theory, Intro to Recording Studio, and various Vocal and Instrumental courses, to prepare students for careers in the music industry.
Comprehensive Overview of Commercial Music Major and Concentrations
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Pre-advising Commercial Major and Concentrations
General Education • Physics of Sound • Required for Music Technology folk • Lab Science option for all students • Offered Spring 2010 • Fine Arts • Take 3 hour class and 6 hours of Commercial Music History (Commercial in Fall, Jazz I and II next year) • Take 1 hour class (Art for the Music Major) and at least 4 hours of Classical Music History (History I in Fall). • World Music and Culture • Required for Jazz folk as Intercultural Literacy • Option for all students as Intercultural Literacy • Offered Spring 2010 • Music Technology (every semester) moves from General Ed to Music Core
Music CoreAll Commercial Majors • Finale (Every semester) • Need Theory I (Fall) and II • Need Aural Theory I (Fall) and II • Technology for Music Major (Every Semester) • Music History • Commercial in Fall • Music History I and III in Fall • Elementary Conducting (Fall)
Applied---VocalWorking Musician and Jazz • Vocal Fundamental I (Fall) • Vocal Fundamentals II (Spring) • Commercial focus • 5 hours of commercial voice Lower Division • 0 1st semester • 1 2nd semester • 2 3rd semester • 2 4th semester • Applied proficiency • 8 hours of UD commercial
Applied---InstrumentalJazz and Working Musician • 4 hours LD Classical • 4 hours LD Commercial • Applied Proficiency • 8 hours UD Commercial
Applied---VocalSongwriting and Music Technology • Vocal Fundamentals I (Fall) • Vocal Fundamentals II (Spring) • 5 hours LD Commercial Voice • 0, 1, 2, 2 • Applied proficiency
Applied—InstrumentalSongwriting and Music Technology • 4 hours LD classical • 4 hours LD commercial • Applied proficiency
Commercial Class Piano • 2 year cycle I-IV • Commercial Piano I offered Fall 2009 • If you have started traditional studies you can finish there, start from scratch with commercial, or try to move from one to another with a year delay and a diagnostic • Paul Epps
Ensembles • Choral Union (4) offered every fall. If you want to graduate on time, you need to take this every fall. • Wind Ensemble/Orch/Guitar (4) • Take every semester until complete • Guitars take every fall
Commercial Minor • Survey I and II and practicum • Survey I in Fall • Intro to Recording Studio (Every Semester) • Intro to Entrepreneurship • Commercial Theory (Fall • Jeff Cox
Summary of Fall Classes • Commercial Theory • Commercial Piano • Intro to Recording Studio • Commercial History • Choral Union/Guitar Ensemble/TSO/ and Wind Ensemble • Vocal Fundamentals • Commercial Lessons
SongwritingFall Classes • Intro to Songwriting • Theory III • Aural Theory • Orchestration • Working Musician • Music Publishing
Music TechnologyFall Classes Recording Techniques
Working MusicianFall Classes • Working Musician • Commercial Ensemble (British Invasion) • Aural Theory III • Improvisation I
Jazz StudiesFall Classes • Jazz Band • Improvisation I
