MUS 102 - Music Fundamentals

1. Demonstrate basic literacy writing music notation.
2. Develop basic literacy finding notes, intervals, and triads on the piano.
3. Develop and demonstrate basic harmony through intervals, triads, and dominant seventh chords.
4. Develop and demonstrate basic literacy in reading and notating rhythm through 16^th notes and rests.
5. Develop and demonstrate basic literacy with music terminology including dynamics, tempo, and various articulations.
6. Demonstrate basic compositional techniques including writing an accompaniment line to a melody.

1. Basic Concepts, Definitions, and Notation
   1. Pitch, loudness, timbre, octave equivalence
   2. Notes and rests, note heads, stems, flags, beams, time values, dots, accidentals, enharmonics
   3. Letter names of notes, register, staff, clefs, lines, spaces, ledger lines, grand staff, middle-c
   4. Piano registers and keyboard acquaintance
   5. Dynamic marks
   6. Articulations
      1. Slurs
      2. Legato
      3. Tenuto
      4. Staccato
      5. Accents
   7. Enharmonic notation
2. Rhythm and Meter
   1. Note values
   2. Beat and pulse, tempo, meter
   3. Tempo indications
   4. Metrical and non-metrical rhythmic organization
   5. Bar lines
   6. Classification of meters
   7. Counting time in simple meters, downbeat, upbeat, pickup
   8. Beaming notes, hemiola
3. Intervals
   1. Chromatic vs. diatonic
   2. Half and whole steps
   3. Melodic and harmonic intervals
   4. Seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths
   5. Unisons, fourths, fifths, octaves
   6. Perfect and major interval classification systems
   7. Inversion
   8. Compound intervals
   9. Chromatic, diatonic, enharmonic intervals
4. Scales and Transposition
   1. Definitions
      1. Mode
      2. Scale
   2. Major scales
   3. Scale degrees
   4. Key concept, tonality
   5. Key signatures of major keys, circle of fifths
   6. Intervals in the major scale, size and quality
   7. Name of scale degrees
   8. Minor scales
      1. Natural
      2. Harmonic
      3. Melodic
   9. Accidentals in minor keys
   10. Intervals in the minor modes
   11. Parallel and relative keys
   12. Other scale types
       1. Pentatonic
       2. Whole-tone
       3. Chromatic
   13. Transposition
5. Key Signatures
   1. Relationship of key to key signature
   2. Sharp and flat signatures and what they determine
   3. Writing the signatures for major and minor keys
6. Triads
   1. Triad defined, root, third, fifth
   2. Standard types of triads
      1. Major
      2. Minor
      3. Diminished
      4. Augmented
7. Chords and Harmony
   1. Chord types and definition
   2. Chord inversion
   3. Figured bass
   4. The dominant-seventh chord
   5. Arpeggiated chords
   6. Proper names of triads and dominant seventh chords
   7. Chord voicing, root position, inversion, doubling
8. Simple Forms
   1. Cadences
      1. Authentic
      2. Half
      3. Deceptive
      4. Plagal
   2. Simple Forms
      1. Binary
      2. Rounded-binary (song)
   3. Harmonizing melodies