MUT 1111 - Music Theory I

College of Fine Arts and Humanities

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Spring 2019 (555)

Requisites

(Prerequisite MUT 1001 or
Permission of the Program) and
Pre- or Co-requisite MUT 1241

Course Description

MUT 1111 explores Western Music’s fundamental concepts of notation, rhythm, melody, harmony, and counterpoint from a historical standpoint with examples from music history’s Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary eras. Students in MUT 1111 are expected to have completed the prerequisite MUT 1001 Fundamentals of Music course or demonstrate proficient knowledge of MUT 1001 learning outcomes. MUT 1111's circular curriculum approach contains repetition and overlap of some of the objectives present in MUT 1001, with the goal of achieving deeper meaning and fluency of content beyond the cursory knowledge intended in the prerequisite course.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will recognize fundamental concepts of music notation of Western Music by:
    1. Identifying music notes utilizing the keyboard.
    2. Discerning various musical symbols including clefs, lines and spaces of the music staff, and dynamic markings.
  2. The student will identify fundamental concepts of rhythm and rhythmic notation of Western Music by:
    1. Associating notated symbols pertaining to rhythm with their aural representation.
    2. Calculating rhythmic elements pertaining to simple time and compound time.
  3. The student will identify fundamental concepts of melody and melodic notation of Western Music by:
    1. Distinguishing characteristics of Major and Minor keys.
    2. Distinguishing characteristics of music Modes.
    3. Recognizing characteristics of intervals.
  4. The student will identify fundamental concepts of harmony and harmonic notation of Western Music by:
    1. Recognizing the characteristics of triads.
    2. Recognizing the characteristics of seventh chords.
  5. The student will identify fundamental concepts of species counterpoint by:
    1. Distinguishing examples of first, second, third, fourth, and fifth species counterpoint.
    2. Defining key terms associated with counterpoint.
    3. Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of species counterpoint exercises.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I Approval: 04/25/2006, BOT Approval: 06/20/2006, Effective Term: Fall 2006 (370).
C&I Approval: 07/26/2018, BOT Approval: 09/18/2018, Effective Term: Spring 2019 (555)

Related Programs

  1. Music (MUSIC-TR) (670) (Active)
  2. Music Education (MUSICED-TR) (670) (Active)