All transfer students who wish to receive credit for music theory courses taken at other institutions are required to take a placement examination. The examination, which is given one or two days before the beginning of each term, includes but is not limited to the following.
Special emphasis is placed on the music of the common-practice era.
Students take one of two examinations, depending upon the number of course hours they wish to transfer. In preparation for the examination students may wish to review one or more standard undergraduate textbooks. We recommend the following. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1989. This is the textbook used in the first four semesters of the core music theory sequence at the University of Alabama, and is the one we most strongly recommend.