MUTH 1310 - Music Fundamentals

Three credit hours.

This course is designed to serve both as a preparatory music theory course for the music major and as a music fundamentals course for the nonmajor or music minor. This course will fulfill the MUTH requirement for the minor. Students will learn about the fundamental rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic practices in Western music and the notational terms and symbols commonly used to communicate these aspects of a musical language. In addition to the study of written materials, students participating in this web-enhanced class will gain basic keyboard knowledge, basic aural skills and fundamental theory concepts through the use of computer-based theory tutorial software and various web-based theory tutorials. Lecture, laboratory, and online components. Upon completion of this course, students wishing to continue with music theory courses will be required to pass a theory fundamentals assessment with a grade of 80% or greater.