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GRCC Curriculum Database (2024-2025 Academic Year) 
    
GRCC Curriculum Database (2024-2025 Academic Year)
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MUS 113 - Music Theory I


Description
This course covers the fundamentals of diatonic harmony including pitch, rhythm, melodic and harmonic analysis. This course provides an introduction to voice leading through 16th-century first species counterpoint.
Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 3
School: School of Liberal Arts
Department: Music
Discipline: MUS
Major Course Revisions: N/A
Last Revision Date Effective: 20240227T11:10:21
Course Review & Revision Year: 2028-2029
Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1

General Education Requirement: None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Recognize and notate pitches notated in standard clefs including the use of octave designations.

2. Recognize and notate all diatonic and chromatic intervals.

3. Recognize and notate rythmic concepts within the context of metrical division.

4. Notate diatonic major scales and the three forms of minor scales with and without the use of their associated key signatures.

5. Practice chromatic transposition and demonstrate the use of transposition in standard score reading.

6. Explain the meaning and use of enharmonic intervals.

7. Recognize and build all diatonic triads and the augmented triad in root position and inversions, using figured bass to describe and realize hamonic context against the bass.

8. Recognize and build diatonic triads in close and open voicing.

9. Introduce the diatonic tetrachord through the typical diatonic use of the V7 function and vii-diminished function.

10. Use Roman Numeral analysis to describe functional harmony and standard chord symbols to describe chord structures in musical examples.

11. Recognize chords within various musical textures.

12. Analyze and compose two-voice, first species counterpoint

13. Analyze and identify non-chord tones.

14. Analyze and name standard harmonic cadences and periodic phrase structures.


Approved for Online Delivery?: No
Course Outline:
I. Pitch Reading and Notation

II. Intervals

III. Scales and Key Signatures

IV. Rythm and Meter Signatures

V. First-Species Counterpoint

VI. Diatonid Triads, Voicings, and Inversions

VII. Functional Harmony and Roman Numeral Analysis

VIII. Diatonic Tetrachords

IX. Non Chord Tones

X. Harmonic Analysis in various textures.

XI. Harmonic Cadences

XII. Phrase Analysis


Mandatory CLO Competency Assessment Measures:
None
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None
Instructional Strategies:
Lecture: 15-20%

Facilitated discussion: 50-60%

Mediated instruction (video, computer, etc.): 15-20%

Group work: 5-10%


Mandatory Course Components:
Final Exam
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: C or Higher in MUS 112  and MUS 120  or 85% Music Theory Pretest (see Music Department to enroll)
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corerequisite(s): MUS 115  
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with IRW: IRW 99
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 3
Faculty Credential Requirements:
18 graduate credit hours in discipline being taught (HLC Requirement), Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details: The instructor should have a minimum of a Master’s Degree in music with a strong music theory background.
General Room Request: Music Theory Classroom
Maximum Course Enrollment: 20
Equivalent Courses: None
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: Yes
Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Credit Accepted: Music Theory
AP Min. Score: 3
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
First Term Valid: Fall 2019 (8/1/2019)
Programs Where This Courses is a Requirement:
Associate of Music, A.M., Music, A.M. (Western Michigan University), Recording Technology, A.M.,
1st Catalog Year: 2019-2020
Course Fees: $5.00
People Soft Course ID Number: 100252
Course CIP Code: 50.09
High School Articulation Agreements exist?: No
If yes, with which high schools?: NA
Non-Credit GRCC Agreement exist?: No
If yes, with which Departments?: NA
Corporate Articulation Agreement exist?: No
If yes, with which Companies?: NA



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