Ozarks Technical 
Community College

This seminar-style course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of songwriting through analysis and practice, as well as a survey of songwriting history, contemporary music business and the educational and private uses of the art. As the students develop their skills in recognizing the major components of the craft, they employ these components on composing and performing their own songs.

This class is an introduction to diatonic harmony for all music majors, including the elements of pitch and rhythm, major and minor scales, major and minor key signatures, functional harmony of all diatonic chords in major and minor keys, voice leading and root position part writing.

This course expands on the basic skills learned in Music Theory I.  Students will continue with diatonic and chromatic harmony as well as voice-leading and part-writing.

This course teaches the fundamentals in reading and performing music, ear training and sight singing.  Basic concepts of notation, rhythm, tonality, and harmony are applied to reading and hearing music through performance and dictation of melodies, intervals and triads.

Students will continue developing skills begun in Sight Singing I.  Through graded exercises and regular practice, the students' musical ear will be developed to hear, notate, and sing given rhythms, melodies and harmonies.

This course is an introduction to basic piano skills. No prior knowledge is required. Students are taught coordination skills as well as note reading and rhytmn. Emphasis is on the application of basic piano techniques introduced in this course.

A choral ensemble open to any singer from within the college who is dedicated to performing to the highest standards possible. The students practice and perform choral works throughout the semester. Emphasis on vocal technique and performance practice is an integral part of the choral experience. A live performance is mandatory. This course may be repeated up to 6 times.

Instrumentals ensembles may be arranged according to availability and student profiency each semester to meet the needs of the participating students and the Fine Arts program. Ensembles will explore a higher degree of musicality and experience working as a group resulting in a performance of your instrument. The course will include at least one performance at the end of the semester.  Students must be able to read musical notation for their instrument.  This course may be repeated up to 6 times.

This course explores intermediate and advanced guitar techniques and repertoire. Intermediate and advanced chord progressions, strumming patterns and repertoire are alsotaught.

This course focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of music as a force shaped by society and shaping society, within the context of Latin-American countries. By applying critical thinking, analytical reading, valuing and information management skills, students link Latin-American musics with their territorial history, geography and politics, understanding the multiple processes of acculturation and syncretism of Native aborigins, Africans and Europeans.

This course is a continuation of harmonic studies including 18th century common-practice harmony, modulation and chords. Theoretical concepts are applied through analyzing musical literature.

This course offers advanced chromatic harmony; twentieth-century and contemporary techniques; knowledge of larger forms and an advanced study of chromaticism.

This course explores, through sight singing and notation, more advanced levels of melodic and harmonic dictation in addition to chromatic harmony and modulation. This course includes sight singing and dictation of melodies and rhythms, error detection, modulation to closely related keys, dictation and identification of chromatic harmony.