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Dec 26, 2024
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MUS 120 - Music Theory I
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 introduces elementary harmony designed to familiarize the student with the study of scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and their inversions. The course includes harmonizing melodies and figured bass lines using primary chords. 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.
Corequisites: MUS 135 - Music Theory Lab I
Recommended(s): MUA 119 - Clas Piano
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:
- Iidentify, explain and discuss vocabulary specific to music.
- Discuss, identify and analyze the fundamental elements of music.
- Analyze and apply knowledge of the principles of basic form.
- Experience team-approach learning through critique of each other’s work.
- Compare and contrast the development of musical style throughout history.
- Experience various community-based educational and cultural offerings by either active participation and/or attendance at these events.
- Compose various compositions making use of common music theory practices.
Course Objectives:
- Apply knowledge of music symbols to writing.
- Analyze and apply the varying scales and keys to compositions.
- Understand historical relationships of elements and their usage.
- Differentiate between the various intervals.
- Analyze and apply the various triads and their inversions.
- Analyze the role of cadences and non-harmonics.
- Write a composition making use of melodic organization.
- Analyze the importance of texture and texture types.
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