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Dec 22, 2024
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MUS 102 - Music Fundamentals
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to music theory and the fundamental principles of traditional music, including melody, rhythm, harmony, basic skills, and vocabulary. Emphasis is on music reading, application, notation, key/time signatures, and aural training. This course is for majors and non-majors with limited background in music fundamentals or as preparation for music major theory courses. This course helps students build critical thinking and problem-solving skills through careful diagnosis and analysis, consider the viewpoints of others and effectively express themselves, all of which will benefit them in the classroom, in life, and in the workforce.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Learn and use a vocabulary specific to music.
- Develop technical skills in notating music manuscript.
- Develop critical analysis skills.
- Understand and apply the principles of harmony.
- Understand and apply the principles of form.
- Experience team-approach learning.
- Gain a knowledge of the development of musical style throughout history.
- Experience various community-based educational and cultural offerings.
- Understand the importance of listening.
- Develop an awareness for aesthetic criteria.
Course Objectives:
Unit One:
- Apply knowledge of music symbols to writing.
- Analyze and apply the varying scales and keys to compositions.
- Differentiate between the various intervals.
- Analyze and apply the various triads and their inversions
Unit Two:
- Analyze tonal center of composed pieces and demonstrate knowledge of tonal center in composition.
- Relate the body of knowledge accumulated to analysis of formal structure.
- Evaluate use of basic chord structures and melodies.
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