MUSI-1210 How Music Works: Intro to Music Theory
(TEXTS & CONTEXTS) This course explores how music works by developing music theoretical tools and approaches to analyze Western classical music as well as modern popular music. It includes the fundamentals of music fluency (notation, scales, key signatures, meter and rhythm, intervals, and triads) as well as the historical context and philosophical principles that have guided the development of the Western musical system. The ability to read music notation, including bass and treble clefs, is required. Formerly MUS-101.