100

A study of the basic building blocks of music: note reading, scales, intervals, keys, triads, rhythms and meters. Geared toward those who want to learn how to read music and build on basic skills. Note: students must either pass this course or its exemption exam in order to register for MUSC 101.

Prerequisite: MUSC 100 or Level I placement on the Music Fundamentals Placement Test. A study of diatonic music: concepts, terminology and skills. Topics include diatonic chords in major and minor keys, voice-leading, part-writing, harmonic progressions, intro to formal analysis, non-chord tones. Musicianship portion to include recognition of scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and rhythms, plus executing rhythms and sight-singing with solmization.

Prerequisite: MUSC 101. A continuation of MUSC 101.

A study of the materials of music from a listener’s point of view, the styles and composers of the various periods, and the relationship of music to the other arts and to its social and historical background.