MUSIC 1 Music Fundamentals

Units: 3
Hours: 54 hours LEC; 18 hours LAB
Grade Options: Letter Grade
General Education: Delta Area 3; CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
This course is designed for the student who wants a beginning background in the theory of music. No knowledge of music or music theory is assumed. The course includes: basic musical notation, rhythm and meter, major and minor scales, major and minor key signatures, intervals and inversions, triads (major, minor, diminished and augmented), some seventh chords, inversions of triads and seventh chords, elementary formal and harmonic analysis, and ear training for all of the above, plus some sight reading and melodic dictation. Some knowledge of keyboard will be included. This is NOT a music major course. (HBCU, UC, CSU)