COURSE Music Fundamentals
Musi 102
3.0 Credit Hours
SEMESTER Spring 2001
Day Campus
INSTRUCTOR Nollie Moore Jr.
233 St. Clair
875-7473 (office)
446-6321 (Home)
ngmoore@email.ccis.edu or mnollie@hotmail.com
OFFICE HOURS MWF 1:00-2:00
DESCRIPTION The primary aim of this course is to help students make the distinction between musical talent and musical knowledge. The content of this course will be centered on the fundamental music components of rhythm, melody, keyboard skills, major & minor scales & key signatures, basic intervals, modes, triads, & tonality.
MEETINGS TTH 12:30-1:50 318 St. Clair
REQUIRED TEXT A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals by Duckworth
7th Edition
Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, Inc.
CD: Focus on Fundamentals (included)
Notebook of blank staff paper
ATTENDANCE Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes. Due to the nature of the course offering, missing even one class will put a student at an extreme disadvantage.
EVALUATION Grades are based on the following criteria.
Exam #1 15%
Midterm Exam 15%
Exam #3 15%
Daily Assignments 25%
CONDUCT Students are expected to conduct themselves on campus and in class so others are not distracted from the pursuit of learning. Discourteous or unseemly conduct may result in a student being asked to leave the classroom. Persistent misconduct on the part of a student is subject to disciplinary action as outlined in the Student Handbook.
Students may be disciplined for conduct, which constitutes a hazard to the health, safety, or well being of members of the College community or which is deemed detrimental to the College’s interest. These sanctions apply whether or not such conduct occurs on campus, off campus, at college sponsored or non-college-sponsored events. Disciplinary action may also be taken regardless of the existence of any criminal proceedings that may be pending or in progress.
Students attending class or related functions under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs will be asked to leave immediately. These students may be referred to the Wellness Center for evaluation before being allowed to continue in the class.
ADA STATEMENT Students with disabilities who may need academic adjustments or auxiliary aids or services for this course are required to register with the campus ADA Coordinator, MO Hall 106, 875-7626.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
January 18 No Class
23 Introduction
Rhythm: Pulse, Meter, Measures, Note Values, Rests,
25 Rhythm cont.: Time Signatures, Simple Meter, A Counting
Method for Simple Meters, Compound Meter, Counting Method for Compound Meters
30 Rhythm cont.: Notational Problems, Triplets and Duplets,
Ties, Syncopation, Repeat Signs, Tempo, Conducting Patterns
February 1 No Class
6 Melody: The Staff, Note Heads, Clefs
8 Melody cont.: Ledger Lines, The Octave Sign, How to
Read a Musical Map
13 The Keyboard: White keys, Black keys
15 The Keyboard cont.: Enharmonic pitches, Accidentals
20 Exam #1
22 Major Scales: Intervals, Scales as Interval Patterns,
Elements of the Major Scale
27 Major Scales cont.: Naming Scale degrees, Ear Training
March 1 Major Key Signatures: The Key Signature, Sharp Keys,
Flat Keys
6 Major Key Signatures cont.: Enharmonic Keys, The Circle
of Fifths: Major Keys
8 Intervals: Interval Identification
13 Intervals cont.: Compound Intervals, Harmonic Inversion
of Intervals
15 Midterm Review/Practice Exam
20 Midterm Exam
22 No Class
27 SPRING BREAK
29 SPRING BREAK
April 3 Minor Key Signatures: Related Keys, Parallel Keys
5 Minor Key Signatures cont.: Minor Key Signatures, The
Circle of Fifths: Minor Keys
Scale, Melodic Minor Scale
12 Minor Scale cont.: Minor Scale in Musical Situations,
Sight-singing of Minor Scales
19 Other Scales & Nodes cont.: Modes cont., The Whole-tone
Scale
24 Exam #3
26 Triads: Basic Structure of Triads, Major & Minor Triads,
Close & Open Positions
May 1 Triads cont.: Augmented & Diminished Triads, Triads &
Scales, Inversions of Triads
3 Triads cont.: Labeling Inversions, Two Systems for
Labeling Triads, The Dominant Seventh Chord
8 Tonality: Tendency Tones, The Dominant/Tonic
Relationship, Cadences,
TBA Final Exam (Comprehensive)