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MUS - Music
MUS 091 Student Recital Series
MUS 101 Beginning Piano
MUS 102 Beginning Guitar
MUS 103 Beginning Voice
MUS 104 Class Piano I
MUS 105 Class Piano II
MUS 106 Class Strings
MUS 107 Class Voice
MUS 110 Brass Class
MUS 111 Woodwinds Class
MUS 112 Percussion Class
MUS 113 Basic Rhythm
MUS 161-163 Large Ensembles
MUS 164-166 Chamber Ensembles
MUS 167 Music Cultures of Non-Western Worlds
MUS 168 Jazz Combo
MUS 170-189 Applied Music
MUS 174 Voice
MUS 201 Survey of Music
MUS 202 Basic Music Theory for Vocalists
MUS 203 Elementary Music Theory
MUS 204 Sight Singing and Ear Training
MUS 205 Music History and Literature I
MUS 206 Music History and Literature II
MUS 207 Electronic Music
MUS 210 Language Orientation I
MUS 211 Language Orientation II
MUS 220 Digital Audio Production I
MUS 221 Advanced Digital Audio Production
MUS 222 Digital Audio Production II
MUS 223 American Popular Music
MUS 225 History of Jazz
MUS 230 Music Theory I
MUS 231 Sight Singing and Ear Training I
MUS 232 Music Theory II
MUS 233 Sight Singing and Ear Training II
MUS 234 Music Theory III
MUS 235 Sight Singing and Ear Training III
MUS 236 Music Theory IV
MUS 237 Sight Singing and Ear Training IV
MUS 238 Jazz Theory I
MUS 239 Jazz Theory II
MUS 241 Musical Theatre Singing
MUS 261 Music and Multimedia
MUS 268 Opera Workshop
MUS 269 Master Class in Applied Music
MUS 270-289 Applied Music
MUS 274 Voice
MUS 288 Harp
MUS 289 Harpsichord
MUS 305 Form and Analysis
MUS 307 Composition
MUS 308 Fundamentals of Conducting
MUS 310 Medieval and Renaissance Music
MUS 311 Music of the Baroque
MUS 312 Music of the Classical Era
MUS 313 Music of the Romantic Period
MUS 314 Twentieth-Century Music
MUS 321 Orchestration
MUS 323 Counterpoint
MUS 360 Seminar in Music Literature
MUS 366 Accompanying
MUS 370-389 Applied Music
MUS 374 Voice
MUS 390 Directed Study
MUS 391 Junior Recital
MUS 408 Advanced Conducting
MUS 458 Twentieth-Century Theory
MUS 490 Independent Study in Music
MUS 491 Independent Study I
MUS 492 Senior Recital-Music Education
MUS 493 Senior Recital-Music Performance Majors
MUS 494 Independent Study II
MUS 505 Systems of Musical Analysis
MUS 508 Applied Conducting
MUS 521 The Symphony
MUS 522 Opera
MUS 560 Seminar in Music Literature
MUS 561-563 Large Ensembles
MUS 564-566 Chamber Ensembles
MUS 567 Master Class in Conducting
MUS 568 Opera Workshop
MUS 570-589 Applied Music
MUS 590 Independent Study
MUS 591 Graduate Recital