Music Fundamentals Open to all students who want to learn how to read music. Covers counting rhythms, reading pitches, writing scales, working with intervals, and harmonizing melodies. Music reading skills are applied to performing music on keyboards, guitars, recorders, or other appropriate musical instruments.
Emphasis is on enjoying music through active participation.
A study of the theoretical principles, formal designs, and stylistic tendencies associated with the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The course emphasizes music analysis, written exercises using computer music applications, and creative composition. An introductory appreciation course, open to all students. Explores music outside the Western European tradition, including music of Polynesia, Native North America, Latin America, Africa and Black America, Eastern Europe, the Mideast, Indonesia, India, and Japan. Specific topics chosen from these areas will be studied.