MUSI 100 - Fundamentals of Music3 Credit: (3 lecture, 0 lab, 0 clinical) 3 Contact Hours:
This course covers development of the techniques necessary to the understanding and knowledge of music fundamentals and develops basic skills in reading and writing music, sight singing, ear training, rhythmic organization and keyboard familiarity. In addition, this course makes connections between the skills of music and its historical, cultural and affective contexts.
OFFERED: fall semesters
Course Goals/ Objectives/ Competencies:
Goal 1: Develop sight-reading and ear-training skills.
- Identify relative pitches.
- Distinguish between similar rhythms.
- Identify major and minor scales.
- Identify major and minor chords.
- Identify intervals.
Goal 2: Execute basic skills needed to read and play music:
- Distinguish between major and minor scales.
- Identify note values, time signatures and related rhythms.
- Identify key signatures.
- Distinguish between various chords and chord progressions.
Goal 3: Demonstrate skills necessary to write music.
- Write transposed melodies.
- Apply appropriate harmonies to a melody using basic chords.
- Write one original composition.
Goal 4: Discuss historical, cultural, and affective aspects of music and their connection with music skills.
- Indentify specific music techniques within historical context of music examples.
- Indentify specific music techniques within cultural context of music examples.
- Identify specific affective aspects of music and how they relate to music techinques.
Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)
|