MUSICIANSHIP WORKSHOP

Undergraduate

This performance-based course will provide opportunities for upper year students to apply their musicianship skills to improvisational situations in a variety of musical styles and forms (from various oral traditions, the Western composed tradition and various popular music styles). The course will emphasize the development and refinement of skills in the melodic and harmonic aspects of spontaneous composition both vocally and instrumentally. Singers will improvise vocally and on piano or guitar. Instrumentalists will vocalize, use their major instrument, and use piano or guitar. PREREQUISITE: Music 2140, 2170 and 2230, or by permission of the instructor 3 hours credit