Students will understand quantitative problems. Students will be exposed to the role of musical notation in music making. Evidence of basic musical compositional skills is an essential part of the course. The course offers practice in fundamentals of music literacy, including note names, rhythmic and metric symbols, key signatures, scales, musical textures, formal structure, and basic harmony. Students will be able to use a computer.
Students are willing to receive information and respond to it.
Students willingness to receive information and respond to it will be enhanced by the variety of musical skills practiced in the class. The lab setting offers students access to the language of music and offers them opportunities for engaging music directly in a number of ways. See number 5 above. Students develop values, organize them into systems, and apply those systems to their private and public lives. Students will explore music making as a means of refining their own values, organizing their values into systems, and applying those systems of to their private and public lives.