3.00 Credits
For students beginning their music education or needing a developmental course in preparation for Music Theory. Teaches fundamental music terminology, rhythm and clef reading, key signatures, intervals, chord construction, and principles of musical structure. Students who successfully complete this course will be more proficient in reading rhythm and meter, writing and hearing scales, intervals, and chords. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Apply fundamental music descriptive and notation terminologies to music from a wide range of historical periods and genres. 2. Read pitches in the bass and treble clef, basic rhythms in simple and compound meters, and basic horizontal and vertical structures in music (including intervals and triads). 3. Write pitches in the bass and treble clef, basic rhythms in simple and compound meters, and basic horizontal and vertical structures in music (including intervals and triads). 4. Analyze pitches in the bass and treble clef, basic rhythms in simple and compound meters, and basic horizontal and vertical structures in music (including intervals and triads). FA