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| NEWS & HAPPENINGS |
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| AUDITIONS FOR PERFORMANCE DEGREE SET FOR NEXT SEMESTER! |
| Auditions for entry into the Commercial Music Performance degree program, Spring 2011, will take place in early December 2010, on campus at LSCPA. Major areas of study include guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards, and session vocals. All instrumentalists will be required to play along with tracks available for download on this site (Click "Audition on Premise" under "Audition and Interview Information" on the homepage of this site). Vocalists are asked to prepare two selections and bring either sheet music for accompaniment or tracks (CD). To schedule an audition, call 409-984-6520. |
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| GET CERTIFICATION IN LIVE SOUND! |
| Start your live sound education with the Live Sound certificate. Spring of 2010 will be the first semester that the new Live Sound/Sound Reinforcement Certificate is offered at Lamar State College Port Arthur, with the next certification class beginning in the Fall of 2010. We are so excited to be the second college in all of Texas to offer this certificate. Learn how to rig and run sound for concert tours, arenas, places of worship, theaters, theme parks, and much more. Learn to design, install, optimize, operate, and maintain sound reinforcement systems of all sizes in real world environments! Call 409.984.6520 for more information. |
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| LSC-PA Studio Facilities Offer Multiple Platforms |
| It is primary to our mission here at LSC-PA that our students graduate into the real world with hands-on knowledge of a wide variety of recording platforms. Studio A is oufitted with a Mac-based Pro Tools and Nuendo control. Studio B offers PC-based Pro Tools and Cubase 4. Studio C avails our students to 10 IMac workstations with Pro Tools LE. Finally, Analog has joined the family of LSC-PA Recording Studio platforms with the addition of a MCI-JH24 Analog 24 Track Tape Recorder, a MCI-Autolocator III, and a Peavy AMR 1600 Audio Console. Students now have the opportunity to learn how to record by tape, and digitally via Pro Tools (both Mac and PC), Nuendo, and Cubase 4. |
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DEGREE PROGRAM
Associate of Applied Science Degree in Commercial Music: Sound Engineering and Recording Arts
| Semester 1 |
Audio Engineering I
Music Fundamentals
Class Piano I
History of Popular Music
Public Speaking
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| Semester 2 |
Audio Engineering II
MIDI I
Class Piano II
One of the following:
Commericial Music Theory I + Commercial Music Sightsinging/Ear Training I
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Live Sound I
One of the following:
College Algebra or College Mathematics
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| Summer |
Microcomputer Applications
Behavioral Science/Social Science Elective
One of the following:
Conceptual Physics or Physical Science
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| Semester 3 |
Audio Engineering III
Survey of Music Business
Commercial Class Piano
One of the following:
Commerical Music Theory II + Commercial Music Sightsinging/Ear Training II
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Live Sound II
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| Semester 4 |
Audio Engineering IV
Songwriting
Commercial Class Piano
Commercial Arranging and Composition
Acoustics |
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| REQUIRED ELECTIVE |
Choose from the following:
One of the following courses: MUSC x2xx or MUSP x2xx
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Two of the following courses: MUEN x1xx, MUSP x1xx, MUAP x1xx, MUSC x1xx |
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