COURSE OUTLINE

Fall 2007

MUSC-1700

Music Theory I

Credit              3 semester hours

                        MWF 10:00-10:50

                        Room 0536

Corequisite     MUSC 1710 Sight Singing and Ear Training I

Instructor        Cheri Markward

                        Office hours posted on web site

                        Office phone 825-2409

                        e-mail cmarkward@ccri.edu

Course Description

                        A study of the organizing factors of music, including scales, key signatures, intervals, triads with inversions, seventh chords with inversions, rhythm, meter, harmonization with primary triads, and cadences. One chapter in the text (more or less) each week will be the basic outline for the semester.

                        Music Theory I is designed to meet the needs of the first-semester music major in basic musicianship, and serves as a prerequisite for MUSC 1040, MUSC 1130, MUSC 1150 and MUSC 1800.

Materials

                        Text: A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals, 9th Ed. By William Duckworth

Required: staff paper, pencil with eraser

Evaluation

Daily recitation, homework assignments, quizzes, projects, and final examinations. If you must miss class because of illness or emergency, getting the assignments and completing them on time are your responsibility. Tests will not be made up for unexcused absences. Excused absences will be granted at the discretion of the instructor for illness or other emergencies, provided that the student contacts the instructor before the missed class (if possible). Test grades will constitute 60% of the grade, with the final counting as two test grades. The other 40% of the grade will be determined by the percentage of completed homework that has been submitted in a timely fashion.

Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of Music Theory I, students will have a basic knowledge of counting in simple and compound meters, be able to use and understand major and minor key signatures and the circle of fifths, be able to identify and write relative and parallel major/minor keys, be able to identify and construct intervals by number and quality, be able to identify and construct triads by quality and function in the major or minor scale, and be able to identify and construct seventh chords.