3.00 Credits
Introduction to the basic elements of music including: the staff, clefs and pitch; note values, time signatures, and rhythmic notation; musical terms and articulations; key signatures, scales, intervals, triads, dominant seventh chords, chord progressions and inversions; modes; composing and harmonizing a melody, and musical forms. Keyboard harmonization, sight singing and melodic and harmonic dictation, along with exploration of music technology and compositional techniques will also be incorporated. Three hours per week. (Corequisite: MUS 1058.) F