MUTH 131 - Music Theory I

FC CNDP

4 credits
This course is an introduction to music analysis. It will build vocabulary and interpretive frameworks in the dimensions of pitch, rhythm & meter, timbre, phrase models, and small formal structures. At the end of the course, students will be able to apply these vocabularies and frameworks to musics they perform and to musics unfamiliar to them.
Prerequisites & Notes: Placement by Music Theory Placement or MUTH 120. ESOL 120 (for students in ESOL sequence). Preference given to students for whom music theory is a required subject.