Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MP 1100 - How Music Works


Credits: 3

In this freshman-level foundations course, students will achieve foundational understanding of music’s building blocks: pitch, scale, intervals, chords, and meter. Through both group and individual analysis of musical examples, arrangement exercises, and short tonal composition exercises, students will learn to identify basic time and pitch structures in context and evaluate how they function to create the experience of music.

Prerequisites: None

Notes: Exemption available through diagnostic exam.


Course Learning Outcomes:
  • Identify musical scales, keys, meter, intervals, and cadences.
  • Analyze song form and basic harmonic progressions.
  • Identify chord inversions.
  • Evaluate musical dynamics, articulation changes, and non-chord tones.




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