MUS 104(S) Music Theory and Musicianship I
This course is designed for potential majors and students with a strong instrumental or vocal background. Students are expected to have competence in reading all clefs and must have a working knowledge of triadic harmony and figured bass realization. Students should take a placement exam during First Days. A study of common-practice harmony with emphasis on both keyboard and chorale style. The course reviews triadic progression in keyboard style, introduces principles of chorale style and part writing, non-chord tones, dominant seventh and other seventh chords, borrowed chords, and modulation all through written assignments, figured bass realization at the keyboard, eartraining exercises, and analysis of musical examples of the period. Sightsinging, sightreading, eartraining, and dictation are pursued concurrently with keyboard and written theory. Students are required to attend a weekly skills lab and to develop, outside of class, their vocal, aural, and keyboard competence through regular practice. Music software will be used for some written assignments as well as eartraining drill. The software will be available both on the network and in the Bernhard Music Technology Lab. Three lectures and one eartraining skills lab per week. Evaluation will be based on assignments, quizzes, and a final exam. All will have both written and aural components. Students with Advanced Placement credit or the equivalent may be permitted to go directly to 201; see department. Prerequisite: Music 103 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 10 in each section. Note: Music 104 cannot be taken on a pass/fail basis