MUSC& 141 Music Theory I (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly MUSIC 110 - CCN
Course Description
Music literacy and aural skills including: key and time signatures, intervals, triad construction, counterpoint and voice leading. Concurrent enrollment in MUSC 181 is strongly recommended.
Course Content
A. Pitch on the staff and keyboard
B. Intervals
C. Accidentals
D. Major scales and scale degree names
E. Minor scales and scales degree names
F. Circle of fifths
G. Parallel and relative keys
H. Time signatures and related concepts of beat, simple and compound meters, and rhythmic transcription
I. Simple chords and progressions
J. Chord inversions
K. Figured bass symbols
L. Basic ear-training skills including recognition of intervals, scales and chords and melodic and rhythmic dictation
Student Outcomes
1. Play, sing, notate, and compose pitches on the staff and keyboard.
2. Play, sing, analyze, notate, spell, discuss, and compose intervals.
3. Play, sing, analyze, notate, spell, discuss, and compose major and minor scales and degrees.
4. Analyze, spell, discuss, and compose the circle of fifths.
5. Analyze, discuss, and relate key signatures to their parallel and relative keys.
6. Aurally recognize scale degrees, intervals, chords (major, minor, augmented and diminished) and scales (major, and the 3 varieties of minor).
7. Take dictation of simple melodies and rhythms.
8. Analyze, notate, spell, discuss and compose chords and their inversions.
9. Analyze, notate, and discuss figured bass symbols.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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