MUS 100 Music Fundamentals

Lecture Hours: 3
Credits: 3

Covers the basics of music, including pitch, rhythm, notation, intervals, scales, harmony, the keyboard, key signatures, the circle of fifths, and triads. Develops basic aural skills through listening, singing, and clapping. Intended for non-music majors and students with little or no experience in music.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Write and recognize note values and rests.
Write and recognize clef signs and time signatures.
Count basic rhythms and identify basic music symbols.
Write and recognize pitches in the treble and bass clefs.
Write and recognize dynamics.
Demonstrate basic conducting patterns.
Write and recognize basic intervals within an octave.
Write and recognize major scales.
Write and recognize natural, harmonic, and melodic minors.
Identify the notes on a keyboard and a basic melody.

Statewide General Education Outcomes

Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life, and
Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues

Content Outline

Notation
- Note values
- Rest values
- Time signatures
- Dynamics
- Symbols
Intervals
- Perfect intervals
- Major intervals
- Minor intervals
- Diminished and augmented intervals
Scales
- Major
- Natural minor
- Harmonic minor
- Melodic minor
- Chromatic
- Modes
Time signatures
- Simple
- Compound
- Complex
Key signatures
- Sharp keys
- Flat keys
- Circle of fifths
Triads
- Major
- Minor
- Diminished
- Augmented
- Inversions
The keyboard
- Names of the keys
- Accidentals