Introduction to Music: Reading, Writing, and Analysis.

Catalog description

This course introduces students to fundamental concepts such as notation, rhythm, meter, timbre, pitch, scales, keys, intervals, and chords. This is achieved through the formal study of music theory; critical listening (including non-Western, popular, folk, and Western classical genres); engaging reading about faith, culture and race as it relates to music; and music composition. In this course, the student will learn listening strategies, methods of musical criticism, the nature and significance of personal creativity, the various roles that music can play in the life of the individual Christian, the church and culture. NOTE: This course does not fulfill the entire VPA theme and covers only the domain of VPAM.