MUS 108: Music Fundamentals

Discipline
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3
Designation
DA
A basic music theory course. Emphasis on learning basic concepts involved in reading and writing music. Notation and reading of simple and compound rhythm, pitch, intervals and triads. Application to performance.
Course Outcomes
  • Read and write music (pitch and rhythm) in conventional notation.
  • Identify and write major and minor key signatures and scales; intervals, triads.
  • Apply knowledge to performance on a primary instrument.
  • Apply knowledge of solfege to diatonic melodies in major and minor keys.