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Advanced Concert Band (1 credit) 
ENSM 2077-001; (Tuesday/Thursday, 7:30-9:15 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

An ensemble consisting of wind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists that presents musical performances on the UC campus and selected venues. Rehearsals emphasize melodic and rhythmic fundamentals and numerous musical styles at an advanced level.

Bearcat Concert Band (1 credit) 
ENSM 2076-001; (Tuesday/Thursday, 5:30-7:15 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

An ensemble consisting of wind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists that presents musical performances on the UC campus and selected venues. Rehearsals emphasize melodic and rhythmic fundamentals and numerous musical styles.

Bearcat Advanced Jazz Band (1 credit) 
ENSM 2075-001; (Monday, 7:30-9:15 p.m.)  
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

An ensemble consisting of wind, brass, and rhythm section instrumentalists that presents musical performances on the UC campus and selected venues. Rehearsals emphasize melodic and rhythmic fundamentals, elements of jazz interpretation and improvisation, and numerous jazz styles including swing era, bebop, mainstream, Latin, and jazz/rock fusion.

Bearcat Jazz Band (1 credit) 
ENSM 2074-001; (Monday, 4:40-6:25 p.m.)  
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

An ensemble consisting of wind, brass, and rhythm section instrumentalists that presents musical performances on the UC campus and selected venues. Rehearsals emphasize melodic and rhythmic fundamentals, elements of jazz interpretation and improvisation, and numerous jazz styles including swing era, bebop, mainstream, Latin, and jazz/rock fusion.

Bearcat Marching Band (1-2 credits) 
ENSM 2071-001; (Wednesday, 6-8 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

An ensemble consisting of wind, brass, percussion instrumentalists, and color guard that presents pre-game, half-time, and post-game musical performances at all home football games and selected away games. Includes pre-school camp. Rehearsals emphasize melodic and rhythmic fundamentals, numerous musical styles, and marching techniques.

Bearcat Pep Band (1 credit) 
ENSM 2072-001; (dates/times, TBA)  
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

An ensemble consisting of wind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists that presents pre-game, half-time, and post-game musical performances at all home basketball games and selected away games. Rehearsals emphasize melodic and rhythmic fundamentals and numerous musical styles

CCM Chamber Choir (0-1 credit) 
ENSM 5161-001  (Undergraduate); (Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 2:30-3:50 p.m.)

CCM Chamber Choir is a professional level ensemble that offers training in ensemble rehearsal and performance. This professional preparation includes exposure to a diverse body of repertoire, as well as ongoing interaction with notable composers, conductors, and soloists. Chamber Choir performs two, three, or four concerts per semester at both CCM and off campus venues. The ensemble's repertoire spans music of the Renaissance through the 21st century, encompassing standard repertory and recent works, and featuring CCM student soloists. Ensemble participation is by audition only, and is designed to help its members show sensitivity and empathy to their colleagues, while contributing their own interpretive ideas and responding to those of others.

CCM Chamber Choir (0-1 credit) 
ENSM 6061-001  (Graduate); (Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 2:30-3:50 p.m.)

CCM Chamber Choir is a professional level ensemble of primarily graduate students, with some upper level undergraduates, that offers training in ensemble rehearsal and performance. This professional preparation includes exposure to a diverse body of repertoire, as well as ongoing interaction with notable composers, conductors, and soloists. Chamber Choir performs two, three, or four concerts per semester at both CCM and off-campus venues. The ensemble's repertoire spans music of the Renaissance through the 21st century, encompassing standard repertory and recent works and featuring CCM student soloists. Ensemble participation is by audition only and is designed to help its members show sensitivity and empathy to their colleagues, while contributing their own interpretive ideas and responding to those of others.

CCM Chamber Singers (0-1 credit) 
ENSM 5163-001/ENSM 6063-001; (Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 2:30-3:50 p.m.)

CCM Chamber Singers is a choir of undergraduate and graduate students that offers training in ensemble rehearsal, performance, and conducting for graduate MM and DMA choral majors. This preparation includes exposure to a diverse body of repertoire, as well as ongoing interaction with notable composers, conductors, and soloists. Chamber Singers performs four concerts per semester at CCM. The ensemble's repertoire spans music of the Renaissance through 21st century, encompassing standard repertory and recent work, often featuring student soloists. Ensemble participation is by audition only and is designed to help its members show sensitivity and empathy to their colleagues, while contributing their own interpretive ideas and responding to those of others.

CCM Chorale (0-1 credit) 
ENSM 5162-001/ENSM 6062-001; (Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 2:30-3:50 p.m.)

CCM Chorale is a professional level choir of primarily undergraduate students that offers training in ensemble rehearsal and performance. This professional preparation includes exposure to a diverse body of repertoire, as well as ongoing interaction with notable composers, conductors, and soloists. Chorale performs two, three, or four concerts per semester at both CCM and off campus venues. The ensemble's repertoire spans music of the Renaissance through the 21st century, encompassing standard repertory and recent works, and featuring CCM student soloists. Ensemble participation is by audition only, and is designed to help its members show sensitivity and empathy to their colleagues, while contributing their own interpretive ideas and responding to those of others.

Classical Guitar Class (2 credits) 
GTAR 5175-001 (Undergraduate) 
GTAR 6075-001 (Graduate)  
All Sections: (Tuesday/Thursday, 12:20-1:15 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

Applied course in basic guitar skills. Emphasis on playing classical and folk styles. Review of current published methods and materials. Open to non-CCM students. Course repeats each semester. Students provide their own nylon string guitars.

Early Music Lab: Vox Antiqua (0-1 credit) 
MUHS 5171-001/ENSM6071-001

Students learn to play music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and early Baroque using period instruments

Electronic Music Production with Ableton Live and Push (3 credits)   
FAM 2045-001; (Wednesday, 6:00-8:50 p.m.; online, synchronously) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts, TI Technology & Innovation

This is a course designed around contemporary electronic and pop music production techniques using Ableton Live Software and Ableton Push MIDI controllers.  We will be using existing genres and associated production strategies as a vehicle for learning music production. This is also an exploration of your own creativity and unlocking individual expression through electronic music production. This class is appropriate for musicians of all ability levels and backgrounds and has applications in music education, production, music therapy, and preparatory education. By the end of this course, students will have made a small portfolio of music and will gain familiarity to a wide variety of modern electronic pop music production techniques.

Group Piano for Non-music Majors (3 credits) 
PIAN 1001-001; (Tuesday/Thursday, 10:10-11:05 a.m.) 
PIAN 1001-002; (Tuesday/Thursday, 9:05-10:00 a.m.) 
PIAN 1001-003; (Tuesday/Thursday, 10:10-11:05 a.m.) 
PIAN 1001-004; (Tuesday/Thursday, 11:15-12:10 a.m.) 
PIAN 1001-005; (Monday/Wednesday, 2:30-3:25 p.m.) 
PIAN 1001-006; (Tuesday/Thursday, 2:30-3:25 p.m.) 
PIAN 1001-007; (Tuesday/Thursday, 8:00-8:55 a.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

Designed for those with little or no piano experience; teaches the fundamentals of reading music, playing by ear, using chord charts, and improving finger flexibility.

Jammin’ with Laptops (3 credits) 
FAM 2014-001; (Tuesday/Thursday, 11 a.m.-12:20 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

This course will explore the potentials of laptop computers for music making. Various technical topics, including analog v. digital sound, audio software, effects, gear, MIDI and audio programming languages will be surveyed. In addition, a survey of the history of computer music will be conducted by way of an investigation into seminal readings and recordings. Both of these inquiries will provide participants with the technical and analytical skills to utilize their laptops to creative ends. Participants will also be expected to work in small groups on creative projects.

Jammin’ with Laptops Online (3 credits) 
FAM 2023-001; online, asynchronously  
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

In this course, you will play, record, and make music with online instruments. There are three units, and each unit includes a distinctive music making session; Individual Session (Unit 1), Collaborative Session (Unit 2), and Creative Jam Session (Unit 3 In the Unit 1, you will individually study the basic knowledge of music making, including identifying musical instruments, playing online instruments, and recording the music that you played through the exercises. In the Midterm Exam, you will be asked to answer the basic knowledge that you have learned so far. In the Unit 2 and 3, you will form your laptop band with your online classmates to play and record music together. In the Unit 2, you will collaborate with 1~2 classmate(s) to complete the assignment together. In the Unit 3, you will collaborate with 2~4 classmates to create your own band under your instruction to direct your band members, and play for your band member's music under their respective directions. In the Final Exam, you will be asked to answer all the materials that you have learned.

Piano Elective for Graduate Students (1-2 credits) 
PIAN 8030-001;(1 credit) TBA 
PIAN 8030-002; (2 credit) TBA 

Applied weekly lessons. Content (repertoire and technical exercises) determined by professor based on the specific needs of each student.

Piano Elective for Undergraduates (1-2 credits) 
PIAN 5030-001; (1 credit) TBA 
PIAN 5030-002; (2 credit) TBA 

Piano lessons for students who want to study as an elective. By permission only.

Pop Piano for Non-Majors (3 credits) 
PIAN 1003-001; (Tuesday/Thursday, 11:15-12:10 p.m.) 
PIAN 1003-002; (Tuesday/Thursday, 1:25-2:20 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

Students will learn how to play piano parts of popular idiom piano pieces. They will learn how to realize chord “lead” sheets and also listen to music to pick up piano accompaniment styles. Learning to read music is not part of this course, although you will learn to read rhythm charts. Music will be chosen from artists such as Coldplay, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, as well as earlier works by Chicago, Motley Crue and John Lennon. Choices will be made depending on the type of accompaniment style you are learning.

UC Cabaret Singers (0-1 credit) 
ENSM 1082-001; (Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 4:40-5:50 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

The UC Men's and Women's Choruses seek to enrich the university experience by providing students a wide range of aesthetic experiences, introducing them to a variety of musical styles, helping them gain appreciation for tonal sounds, and making connections between music and their own personal lives. Members of the UC Men's and Women's Choruses will work toward excellence in performance with other students who share a common interest in choral music. The ensembles regularly perform on campus, locally and on annual national tours. The Cabaret Singers is a select auditioned group drawn out of the Men's and Women's Choruses. The ensemble will explore a wide variety of music designed for a smaller ensemble.

UC Choruses (0-1 credit) 
ENSM 1050-001; Treble Voices: Alta Petit (Tuesday/Thursday, 2-3:50 p.m.) 
ENSM 1050-002; Tenor/Bas voices: Juncta Juvan (Tuesday/Thursday, 2-3:50 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

The UC Men's and Women's Choruses seek to enrich the university experience by providing students a wide range of aesthetic experiences, introducing them to a variety of musical styles, helping them gain appreciation for tonal sounds, and making connections between music and their own personal lives. Members of the UC Men's and Women's Choruses will work toward excellence in performance with other students who share a common interest in choral music. The ensembles regularly perform on campus, locally and on annual national tours.

UC Symphony Orchestra (0-1 credit) 
ENSM 2091-001; (Tuesday, 8:00-10:00 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

The UC Symphony Orchestra is specifically for and is designed to provide students with an opportunity to rehearse and perform great orchestral repertoire. Membership in the orchestra is open to instrumentalists who own their own instrument, have a basic technical proficiency, and the ability to read music. Specific seating assignments in the orchestra are determined by informal auditions at the start of each quarter.

Voice Class (1-2 credits) 
VOIC 1075/7075-001; (Thursday, 2:00-2:55 p.m.) 
VOIC 1075/7075-002; (Tuesday, 4:00-4:55 p.m.) 
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

Voice Class is intended to impart the rudiments of classical vocal technique. Topics addressed include breathing for singing, phonation, anatomy of the breathing process, anatomy of the larynx, posture, vowel formation, and characteristics of consonant sounds. The class will culminate in the student performing a song in English.

World Music Lab: (0-1credits)   
FAM 3085-001; Tabla I (Wednesday, 6:00-7:40 p.m.; online, synchronously)  
FAM 3085-002; Tabla II (Wednesday, 7:45-9:25 p.m.; online, synchronously) 
FAM 3085-003; Zimbabwean Mbira (online, asynchronously)  
Breadth of Knowledge Areas: FA Fine Arts

Students learn to play music of a given cultural tradition in an ensemble setting using appropriate instruments and/or voice.