This is a limited-enrollment program requiring departmental admissions approval. Please see the college advisement center for information regarding requirements for admission to this major.
A major in media music studies prepares the student for music industry opportunities in creating and managing music for the media (radio, TV, records, film). The program combines rigorous grounding in traditional repertoires with preprofessional course work and project experience in current industry models and musical styles.
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acceptance as a music major; concurrent enrollment in Music 195. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Development of aural skills through melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictation. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 193; concurrent enrollment in Music 196. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 193. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acceptance as a music major; concurrent enrollment in Music 193. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Writing and analysis in diatonic harmony. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 195; concurrent enrollment in 194. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Writing and analysis in diatonic and chromatic harmony. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acceptance as a music major. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Rhythm and pitch-reading skills using two systems of counting and melodic solfeggio singing with hand signs. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 197. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 197. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Piano skills determined by entrance diagnostic exam; music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Provides music majors with basic keyboarding ability in such areas as sight reading, technique, harmonization, and score reading. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 221; music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 221. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 194; concurrent enrollment in Music 295. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 194. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 293; concurrent enrollment in Music 296. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 293. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 196; concurrent enrollment in Music 293. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Extended chromatic techniques and introduction to twentieth-century concepts. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 295; concurrent enrollment in Music 294. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Set theory, serialism, and late twentieth-century concepts. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 198. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 198. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 297. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 297. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status, C- or higher in Music 194, 196, 198. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Physical techniques and musical understanding required to conduct an instrumental performance ensemble. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status, C- or higher in Music 194, 196, 198. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Physical techniques and musical understanding required to conduct a choral performance ensemble. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Private instruction and studio class. |
| NOTE: | From one to four hours of daily practice. Fee. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acceptance by audition to the School of Music. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Class instruction in voice technique. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Private instruction and studio class. |
| NOTE: | From one to four hours of daily practice. Fee. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition and instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Training and experience in operatic choral music and stage movement. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition and instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Training and experience in operatic excerpts, chamber opera, and full productions for operatic soloists. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition and instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Auditioned chorus or orchestra for opera or music dance theatre productions. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition and director's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Participation as soloists, coaches, or directors in music dance theatre performances. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition or director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Contemporary and traditional show music (Young Ambassadors) and ethnic music (Lamanite Generation). |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Includes Jazz Ensemble (big band), Jazz Lab Band (entry-level big band), and Vocal Jazz Ensembles. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Includes Jazz Ensemble (big band), Jazz Lab Band (entry-level big band), and Vocal Jazz Ensembles. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Traditional ensemble specializing in early jazz. Band occasionally tours off campus. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Playing and performing on the Balinese gamelan (percussion) instruments. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music 260R or instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Accompanying and ensemble performance. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Instructor's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Instructor's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 294 & MUSIC 296 & MUSIC 298; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Survey of musical genres, forms, styles, and performance practices from antiquity through the baroque. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 294 & MUSIC 296 & MUSIC 298; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Survey of musical genres, forms, styles, and performance practices from the classic through the present. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 293, 295. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Analytical study of forms from the common-practice period, including baroque contrapuntal structures and instrumental forms, classical sonata cycle, and romantic part forms. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand; Summer On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 194 & MUSIC 196 & MUSIC 198; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Exploration of music making from a global perspective. |
| NOTE: | This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 194 & MUSIC 196 & MUSIC 198; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Survey of jazz history, emphasizing periods, styles, and artists through the analysis of published transcriptions and arrangements. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Basic music reading and keyboard skills. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Songwriting for present-day music publishing industry; basic songwriting theory; form, content, and style. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | The music business and its models. Guided research topics for all musicians. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 186; Music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Projects in advanced songwriting. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 186; Music major status, Music 295 or instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Introductory projects in scoring for broadcast media, publication, and studio recording. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | Instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Internship or externship in creative, performing, producing, or teaching applications of major course work. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music 195 or instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Introduction to principles of recent art music; composition and performance of student works for one to five instruments. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | PHSCS 167; Math 110 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Basic recording studio procedures and principles. Foundation course for major in sound recording technology. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 194 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Beginning improvisation: theory and technique. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music 188 or instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Introduction to composition with digital audio and related media. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 257 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Advanced concepts in digital sound editing. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 351 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Advanced concepts in digital sound editing. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 196 & MUSIC 222 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Lead sheets, chord voicings, and other aspects of jazz performance practice. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Analytical studies for understanding and appreciating media forms and messages, as well as basic history, theory, and aesthetics. Lab required. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 389; Instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Introduction to techniques and technology of film scoring. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acc 200 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Financial statement analysis, financial planning, sources of financing, working capital management, risk and return, and valuation. |
| OFFERED: | Independent Study also. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Marketing's role in society and the firm, marketing opportunities, the consumer market, and management of marketing mix. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Practical aspects of business formation and growth; key skills and principles needed to successfully start up and grow a business. |
| NOTE: | For non-Marriott School of Management students. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status; jury approval. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Private instruction and studio class. |
| NOTE: | From one to four hours of daily practice. Fee. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status; jury approval. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Private instruction and studio class. |
| NOTE: | From one to four hours of daily practice. Fee. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 287 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Invention and exploration of sound, control of multivoiced textures and larger forms, and recent art music. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand; Summer On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 194 & MUSIC 196 & MUSIC 198; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Exploration of music making from a global perspective. |
| NOTE: | This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 194 & MUSIC 196 & MUSIC 198; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Survey of jazz history, emphasizing periods, styles, and artists through the analysis of published transcriptions and arrangements. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 293, 295. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Scoring for standard orchestral instruments. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 296. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Study of published choral arrangements, as well as techniques for adapting and arranging for choirs. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 294, 296. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Eighteenth-century contrapuntal styles and techniques, emphasizing those of J. S. Bach. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 295 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Developing concepts and skills related to the orchestration, arranging, and composition of jazz and related contemporary styles of music. |
Note: Music 307, 308 may be used here only if not used for #7 above.
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 389; Media music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Creating a demo CD and resume from course work, creative project, and internship experiences. Career goals and opportunities. |
*Hours include courses that may fulfill university core requirements.