Course Objectives

MUT 1111: Music Theory I 

1. The student will understand and be able to define the following concepts: Time & sound; Sound waves; pitch; intensity; Timbre; Harmonics; the Harmonic series.
2. The student will be able to notate on the musical staff, using the G clef, F clef, C clefs, and the grand staff.
3. The student will understand meter and rhythm.
4. The student will understand, notate, and count all note and rest values.
5. The student will be able to write and count rhythms in simple and compound time.
6. The student will understand Time Signatures.
7. The student will create and identify intervals quantitatively and qualitatively.
8. The student will be able to write all major scales and key signatures in all clefs.
9. The student will be able to write all minor scales and key signatures in all clefs in natural, harmonic, and melodic form.
10. The student will be able to write and name, from memory, all major, minor diminished and augmented triads.