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Course Description


Music - MUSIC 104

Basic Materials in Music Theory

3 Credit Hours
3 Lecture Hours

Course Description

This course provides a step by step approach to the fundamentals of music including notation, scales, intervals and triads.

Prerequisites

(A requirement that must be completed before taking this course.)

  • None.

Course Competencies

Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:

  • Read fundamental pitch and rhythmic notation in the treble and bass staff.
  • Write fundamental pitch and rhythmic notation in the treble and bass staff.
  • Construct major scales and all forms of minor scales.
  • Identify all major and minor key signatures.
  • Construct all major and minor key signatures.
  • Construct traditional intervals that identify distance between pitches.
  • Construct major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads.
  • Write simple rhythms derived from aural dictation.
  • Notate intervals on treble or bass staff through aural dictation.

Course Schedule

 CourseSectionCourse TitleLocationCredit HoursInstructorsSeats Available ⁄Capacity ⁄WaitlistStatusFeeDays-Time-Room

Fall; 2024; MUSIC; No of Weeks : 15; Begins : 08/26/2024

 104141806Basic Materials Music TheoryMC3Drake J30/30/0Open$10.00M W  01:00 PM-02:26 PM F310
 104141807Basic Materials Music TheoryMC3Ha S16/16/0Open$10.00M W  10:00 AM-11:26 AM F300
 104141856Basic Materials Music TheoryMC3Minnick D30/30/0Open$10.00W  06:00 PM-08:52 PM F301

Summer; 2024; MUSIC; No of Weeks : 7; Begins : 07/01/2024

 104131801Basic Materials Music TheoryMC3Drake J17/20/0Open$10.00M W  09:00 AM-12:10 PM F301

Winter; 2024; MUSIC; No of Weeks : 15; Begins : 01/08/2024

 104111817Basic Materials Music TheoryMC3Drake J9/24/0Open$10.00M W  10:30 AM-11:56 AM F300

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  • X = Sunday