MUSC 171 - Music Theory I

3 credits
3 hours per week.

Continuous course. A study of the rudments of music including pitch and register, rhythm and meter, and the analysis/construction of scales, intervals, triads and seventh chords. The second semester covers the fundamentals of two-voice counterpoint, the treatment of consonance and dissonance, and incorporates elements of 16th and 18th century practice.

Offered (FALL/SPRING)