Vocal Music
vocal Music
Highland Community College offers courses in vocal music with an emphasis in music as a transfer program for students who plan to complete an associate in arts at HCC and then transfer to another institution to pursue a bachelor's degree. The courses includes coursework, performance, and private instruction applied lessons. Employment opportunities exist in teaching, professional performance, audio production, arts administration, and music business.
Performance Ensembles
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Lads and Lassies – Enroll in M 113/114 - This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a show choir ensemble that features various styles of contemporary music along with choreography. The ensemble also travels within the college service area to perform. An audition is required to join this group. Please contact the HCC Music Faculty for more information on enrollment.
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HCC Chorus – Enroll in M 115/116 - This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage chorus that features various styles of music in three mainstage concerts throughout the year.
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Vocal Music Courses
>> This course is approved by the Kansas Board of Regents for System Wide Transfer (SWT) among all Kansas public postsecondary institutions offering an equivalent course. Additional courses may also be eligible for transfer. Please visit the Highland Registrar to learn more.
GE This course is approved by the Kansas Board of Regents for the General Education Transfer among all Kansas public postsecondary institutions offering an equivalent course.
3 Credit Hours
This course covers the basics of music, including symbols, rhythm, and scale construction. The course also introduces reading and dictation in two or three parts, the minor modes and chromatics, eye and ear study through the simple modulations, and transpositions.
3 Credit Hours
This course provides an introduction to music as an art form. The course will cover the basic elements of music and historically significant style periods and composers. The course will also emphasize the concept of music as self-expression.
M 105 Applied Keyboard I
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: Permission
This course provides private lessons in developing keyboard performance skills.
M 106 Applied Keyboard II
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 105
This course provides private lessons in developing keyboard performance skills.
M 225 Applied Keyboard III
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 106
This course provides private lessons in developing keyboard performance skills.
M 226 Applied Keyboard IV
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 225
This course provides private lessons in developing keyboard performance skills.
M 107 Applied Music Vocal I
1 Credit Hour
This course provides private lessons in developing vocal performance skills.
M 108 Applied Music Vocal II
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 107
This course provides private lessons in developing vocal performance skills.
M 207 Applied Music Vocal III
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 108
This course provides private lessons in developing vocal performance skills.
M 208 Applied Music Vocal IV
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 207
This course provides private lessons in developing vocal performance skills.
M 111 Applied Music Instrumental I
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: Permission
This course provides private lessons in developing instrumental performance skills.
M 112 Applied Music Instrumental II
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 111
This course provides private lessons in developing instrumental performance skills.
M 211 Applied Music Instrumental III
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 112
This course provides private lessons in developing instrumental performance skills.
M 212 Applied Music Instrumental IV
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 211
This course provides private lessons in developing instrumental performance skills.
M 113 Vocal Ensemble Lads and Lassies I
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: Audition
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage vocal ensemble that features various styles of music along with choreography and props. The ensemble also travels within the college service area to perform. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and ensemble music skills.
M 114 Vocal Ensemble Lads and Lassies II
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 113
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage vocal ensemble that features various styles of music along with choreography and props. The ensemble also travels within the college service area to perform. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and ensemble music skills.
M 213 Vocal Ensemble Lads and Lassies III
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 114
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage vocal ensemble that features various styles of music along with choreography and props. The ensemble also travels within the college service area to perform. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and ensemble music skills.
M 214 Vocal Ensemble Lads and Lassies IV
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 213
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage vocal ensemble that features various styles of music along with choreography and props. The ensemble also travels within the college service area to perform. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and ensemble music skills.
M 115 Chorus I
1 Credit Hour
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage chorus that features various styles of music. The chorus also travels within the college service area to perform. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and choral music skills.
M 116 Chorus II
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 115
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage chorus that features various styles of music. The chorus also travels within the college service area to perform. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and choral music skills.
M 215 Chorus III
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 116
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage chorus that features various styles of music. The chorus also travels within the college service area to perform. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and choral music skills.
M 216 Chorus IV
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 215
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage chorus that features various styles of music. The chorus also travels within the college service area to perform. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and choral music skills.
1 Credit Hour
Co-requisites: M 104, M 200
This course provides a keyboard study of melodies, scales, harmonies, meters, and rhythm
M 135 Aural Skills I
2 Credit Hours
Corequisite: M 200
This course provides an aural study of melodies, intervals, harmonies, rhythms, and meters.
M 145 Aural Skills II
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: M 135 Corequisite: M 201
This course provides an aural study of melodies, intervals, harmonies, rhythms, and meters.
M 229 Aural Skills III
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: M 145 with C or higher; corequisite M 233
This course provides an aural study of melodies, intervals, harmonies, rhythms, and meters.
M 230 Aural Skills IV
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: M 229 with C or higher; corequisite M 234
This course provides an aural study of melodies, intervals, harmonies, rhythms, and meters.
3 Credit Hours
This course provides a survey of American musical theatre. The course will cover the historical development of musical theatre, significant style periods, and significant composers. The course will emphasize music theatre as social, political, and cultural expression. NOTE: This course is the same as TH 146. Students may enroll in and receive credit for either M 146 or TH 146 but cannot enroll in or receive credit for both courses.
M 152 Opera Production I
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: Audition
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage vocal ensemble that prepares and performs as the chorus with a professional opera company. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and ensemble skills and also offers exposure to the performing arts as a profession.
M 153 Opera Production II
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 152
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage vocal ensemble that prepares and performs as the chorus with a professional opera company. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and ensemble skills and also offers exposure to the performing arts as a profession.
M 252 Opera Production III
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 153
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage vocal ensemble that prepares and performs as the chorus with a professional opera company. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and ensemble skills and also offers exposure to the performing arts as a profession.
M 253 Opera Production IV
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 252
This course is designed for both music majors and other students interested in performing with a stage vocal ensemble that prepares and performs as the chorus with a professional opera company. This course provides an opportunity for musical self-expression and continued development of individual and ensemble skills and also offers exposure to the performing arts as a profession.
M 154 Group Piano I
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
This course provides instruction in functional keyboard skills needed to succeed in the music classroom or play the piano for personal enjoyment.
M 155 Group Piano II
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: M 154
This course provides additional instruction in functional keyboard skills needed to succeed in the music classroom or play the piano for personal enjoyment.
3 Credit Hours
This course will provide an introduction to music across the world. The basic elements of music and musical style from specific regions will be studied. The course will also emphasize music as self-expression.
> > M 200 Music Theory I
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: M 101 (C or higher) or Instructor Permission; Corequisite: M 135
This course will provide a study of the harmonic systems used in musical composition from approximately 1650 to 1900, including mastery of scales, keys, intervals, rhythms, and basic triads. The course will cover simple four-part writing, triad inversions, non-chord tones, secondary chords, and dominant seventh chords. Students will also analyze chorales, hymns, and representative literature from recognized style periods.
> > M 201 Music Theory II
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: M 200 (C or higher); Corequisite: M 145
This course will provide more advanced study of the harmonic systems used in musical composition from approximately 1650 to 1900, including mastery of scales, keys, intervals, rhythms, and basic triads. The course will cover simple four-part writing, triad inversions, non-chord tones, secondary chords, and dominant seventh chords. Students will also analyze chorales, hymns, and representative literature from recognized style periods.
M 233 Music Theory III
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: M 201
This course will provide further study of harmony and composition. The course will examine dominant and secondary dominant harmonies, modulation, and chromatic harmony. Formal analysis and 20th century techniques will also be introduced.
M 234 Music Theory IV
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: M 233
This course will provide more advanced study of the harmonic systems used in musical composition from approximately 1650 to 1900, including mastery of scales, keys, intervals, rhythms, and basic triads. The course will cover simple four-part writing, triad inversions, non-chord tones, secondary chords, and dominant seventh chords. Students will also analyze chorales, hymns, and representative literature from recognized style periods.
3 Credit Hours
This course provides a listening-based approach to the evolutionary development of America’s unique jazz art form. The course will cover the American roots of jazz and its early figures, the development of various jazz styles, significant jazz musicians, and the place of jazz in modern music.