• MUSC 2050: MUSIC HISTORY SURVEY I

  3.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  The first in a series of two courses on the history and literature of music. Students develop strategies for listening to the sounds of music in Western culture. Students identify the instruments, aesthetic structures, major composers, and typical styles of musical works from the Baroque through early 19th-century Romanticism. Including critical comparison with non-western and contemporary popular forms of music, students analyze the context, meaning, and historical impact of music in Western society. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1010.
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• MUSC 2055: MUSIC HISTORY SURVEY II

  3.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  The second in a series of two courses on the history and literature of music. Students develop strategies for listening to the sounds of music in Western culture. Students identify the instruments, aesthetic structures, major composers, and typical styles of musical works from late 19th-century Romanticism through the present. Including critical comparison with non-western and contemporary popular forms of music, students analyze the context, meaning, and historical impact of music in Western society. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1010.
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• MUSC 2060: JAZZ IMPROVISATION I

  1.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  A course designed to provide students with the materials, techniques, and concepts needed for developing basic jazz improvisation skills. Students acquire and apply knowledge about scales, chord structure, common chord progressions, and developing improvisational ideas. Prerequisite: Ability to perform on a musical instrument or voice, including (but not limited to) piano, guitar, bass, trumpet, trombone, and saxophone.
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• MUSC 2065: JAZZ IMPROVISATION II

  1.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  A continuation of MUSC 2060. A course designed to provide students with the materials, techniques, and concepts needed for developing intermediate and advanced jazz improvisation skills. Students acquire and apply knowledge about scales, chord structure, common chord progressions, and developing improvisational ideas. Prerequisite: Successful completion of MUSC 2060.
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• MUSC 2071: APPLIED MUSIC: VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL

  1.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  Private music lessons in voice, piano, organ, guitar, woodwind, brass, percussion, and string instruments with an approved college instructor. The student pays an additional lesson fee. May be repeated for up to eight times for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC 1052 on the same instrument.
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• MUSC 2072: APPLIED MUSIC: VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL

  1.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  Private music lessons in voice, piano, organ, guitar, woodwind, brass, percussion, and string instruments with an approved college instructor. The student pays an additional lesson fee. May be repeated for up to eight times for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in MUSC 2071.
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• MUSC 2150: GUITAR II

  1.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  A continuation of MUSC 1150. Students build on fundamentals and review bar chords, major and minor scales, two- and three-part harmony and various arpeggio picking patterns. Melodic development and solo playing will be included. May be repeated twice for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC 1150.
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• MUSC 2290: ELEMENTARY CLASS PIANO III

  1.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  The third semester of a four-semester sequence for the beginning piano student. Students continue to develop skills in finger control, hand independence, and pedal technique. Students continue to acquire and demonstrate skill in sight-reading (homophonic pieces, score part-reading, and hymnal reading), harmonization of melodies using all diatonic chords or prescribed chord progressions, and all harmonic minor scales. Students also demonstrate skills in transposition, basic accompanying techniques, and singing and playing together. Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC 1295 or successful completion of the final exam requirements for MUSC 1295.
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• MUSC 2295: ELEMENTARY CLASS PIANO IV

  1.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  The fourth semester of a four-semester sequence for the piano student. Students continue to develop skills in finger control, hand independence, and pedal technique. Students continue to acquire and demonstrate skill in sight-reading (homophonic pieces, score part-reading, and hymnal reading), harmonization of melodies using all diatonic chords or prescribed chord progressions, and all major and harmonic minor scales. Students will also demonstrate skills in transposition, basic accompanying techniques, and singing and playing together. All skills will help students prepare for the piano proficiency exam. Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC 2290 or successful completion of the final exam requirements for MUSC 2290.
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• MUSC 2320: DICTION FOR SINGERS I

  2.00 Credits

  Laramie County Community College

  
  This class teaches the appropriate pronunciation of Italian and German languages for singing purposes. Students study phonetics, the science of speech sounds. Students will learn to apply the appropriate pronunciation of the languages throughout the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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