Mar 28, 2024  
Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 
    
Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MUSC 1050 - Music Fundamentals

Credit Hours: 2.00


Prerequisites: None

The study of beginning music fundamentals such as note names, clefs, scales, intervals, and chords, an analysis of simple melodic and rhythmic structures, and an introduction to the piano. Recommended for beginners and those needing preparation for Theory 1 and Ear Training 1.

Contact Hours: 2
Billable Contact Hours: 2
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to name, define, and describe that Element of Music called “the Staff” and its associative structures.

Objectives:

  1. Name, define, and describe pitch, lines, and spaces of the great staff.
  2. Name, define, and describe the treble and bass clefs.
  3. Name, define, and describe octave names called C.
  4. Name, define, and locate octave names on the piano keyboard.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to name, define, and describe that Element of Music called “Rhythm” and its associate structures.

Objectives:

  1. Name, define, and describe pulse and duration of sound and silence.
  2. Name, define, and describe symbols called notes.
  3. Name, define, and describe simple and compound meters.
  4. Name, define, and describe measures and bar lines.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to name, define, and describe that element of music called the “Scale” and its associate structures.

Objectives:

  1. Name, define, and describe the octave, the half step, and the whole step.
  2. Name, define, and describe the diatonic major scale.
  3. Name, define, and describe the diatonic minor scale.
  4. Name, define, and describe the sharp, flat, chromatic, and natural signs on the staff and the piano keyboard.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to name, define, and describe that Element of Music call “the Chord” and its associative structures.

Objectives:

  1. Name, define, and describe harmony and chords.
  2. Name, define, and construct major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads.
  3. Name, define, and construct single triads and seventh chords in root and inverted positions.
  4. Name, define, and construct chord progressions using the tonic, subdominant, and dominant triads and seventh chord in root and inverted positions.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

  • 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
  • 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
  1. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
  • 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
  1. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

 


COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
  1. The Staff
    1. Pitch
    2. Great Staff
    3. Treble and Bass Clefs
    4. Note Identification
  2. Introduction to the Keyboard
    1. Notes on the Keyboard
    2. Chromatic Notes
    3. Octave Names
  3. Rhythm
    1. Pulse and Duration
    2. Music Notes
    3. Staff and Rest Notation
    4. Measure Structure
    5. Meter and Time Signature
  4. Scales
    1. Pitch
    2. Octave
    3. Half Steps
    4. Whole Steps
    5. Diatonic Major Scales
    6. Diatonic Minor Scales
  5. Intervals
    1. Melodic Style
    2. Harmonic Style
    3. Major Intervals
    4. Minor Intervals
    5. Perfect Intervals
    6. Diminished Intervals
    7. Augmented Intervals
  6. Chord Construction
    1. The Triad and Seventh Chords
    2. The Tonic (I) Triad
    3. The Subdominant (IV) Triad
    4. The Dominant (V) Triad and (V7) Seventh Chords
    5. The Above Chords in 1st and 2nd Inversions

Primary Faculty
Cook, Thomas
Secondary Faculty

Associate Dean
Ternullo, Annette
Dean
Pritchett, Marie



Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088



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