MUS 102 - Music Fundamentals

1. Demonstrate basic literacy of world music notation systems. 
2. Develop basic literacy finding notes, intervals, and triads on the keyboard.
3. Develop and demonstrate harmony through intervals, triads, and dominant seventh chords and comparisons to non-Western harmony.
4. Develop and demonstrate basic literacy in reading and notating rhythm, dynamics, articulations 
5. Investigate comparisons of folk music in a global content through characteristics and examples. 
6. Demonstrate compositional techniques including writing an accompaniment line to a melody and a folk song melody.

1. Overview of folk music of various cultures.
   1. Western Civilizations (Americas, Europe)
   2. India (Raga)
   3. Eastern Civilizations (China, Japan, Indonesia and related countries)
   4. Middle Eastern Civilizations (Iran, Iraq and related countries)
2. Basic Concepts, Definitions, and Notation
   1. Pitch, loudness, timbre, octave equivalence
   2. Notes and rests, note heads, stems, flags, beams, time values, dots, accidentals
   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
   7. Enharmonic notation
   8. Comparisons to basic concepts of non-Western notation
3. Rhythm and Meter
   1. Note values
   2. Beat and pulse, tempo, meter
   3. Tempo indications
   4. Metrical and non-metrical rhythmic organization
      1. Even and odd meters by geographical area
   5. Bar lines
   6. Classification of meters
   7. Counting time in simple meters, downbeat, upbeat, pickup
   8. Beaming notes, hemiola
   9. Comparisons to basic concepts of non-Western rhythm and meter
4. 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
   10. Micro-tones in Non-Western Music
5. Scales and Transposition
   1. Definitions
      1. Mode
      2. Scale
   2. Scales
      1. Major and minor scales (Western)
      2. Raga (India), Radif (Persian), Pien tone (Chinese)
      3. Pentatonic
      4. Blues
   3. Scale degrees
   4. Key concept, tonality
   5. Key signatures of major and minor keys, circle of fifths
   6. Intervals in the major scale, size and quality
   7. Name of scale degrees
   8. Accidentals in minor keys
   9. Intervals in the minor modes
6. 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
7. Triads
   1. Triad defined, root, third, fifth
   2. Standard types of triads
   3. Non-Western harmony comparison
8. 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. Non-Western uses of harmony in song writing
9. Simple Forms
   1. Cadences
   2. Simple Forms
      1. Binary
      2. Rounded-binary (song)
      3. Harmonizing melodies including original and recreated folk song melodies.
10. Folk Song Construction and History
    1. Listen to and see in notation with lyrics examples of folksongs from multiple cultures.
    2. Create original or recreated melody.
    3. Prepare original or recreated folk song with harmony for performance.