MUS 110 - Foundations of Music Theory and Literacy

This course is an introduction to music theory and literacy, including notation of pitch and rhythm, intervals, melody, instrumentation/timbre, scales, keys and tonality, pulse and syncopation, triads and seventh chords, chord progressions and cadences. Lectures are often interactive and involve singing, moving, clapping, chanting, and otherwise embodying musical concepts. Labs will include similar activities from lecture in smaller groups, as well as identification and construction of structures introduced in lecture on piano and dictation of basic rhythms and melodies.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Instructional Method: Lecture-laboratory
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).