MUSC 1050 - Music Fundamentals

Credit Hours: 2.00

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.

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