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Musica Practica 2 continues strategies for composing, understanding, and writing about music.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.59 GPA, 80.5% A/AB (n=82 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.52 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=54 letter grades).
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Musica Practica: Aural Skills 2 continues introductory aural skill instruction, focusing on diatonic and chromatic melody performance and dictation.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 86.4% A/AB (n=81 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.61 GPA, 81.5% A/AB (n=54 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Special Topics in Music explores wide-ranging topics in music history, music theory, or music education.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.77 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Independent Work is a course for faculty-mentored individual study and research in music.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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