MUSC 100 - Music Theory I: Fundamentals in Global Context

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FA. An introduction to Western music theory fundamentals such as pitch, scales and modes, key signatures, intervals, triads, meter, and form. The course will consider how Western musical patterns relating time, pitch, and structure are similar and different from musical patterns in the non-West. It will also provide an opportunity to reflect on how and why humans create patterns out of sound and why God created us to be musical. Prerequisite: the ability to read music at a basic level. Corequisite: MUSC 111.

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