MUS 1005Music Theory I

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MUS 1005 is an introductory course designed to teach fundamental music rudiments that all neophyte aspiring musicians must obtain. The course focuses on the following: 1. Note reading in treble and bass clefs with emphasis on standard note values contributing to duple, triple and quadruple meters with subdivision counting. 2. This course will explain the construction of the four basic triads (major, minor, augmented, diminished) 3. Scale building blocks will be explored with formulas used in western music (major and three forms of the minor scale) and explanation of diatonic key signatures. 4. Ear training techniques that explore popular melodies from a variety of classical, pop, hip hop, and other vogue music genres popular in the 21st century, that deal with notation and dictation techniques based on introduction of intervallic relationships between notes through movable Do solfege techniques.