MUSI 1401 - Theory, Form and Counterpoint I

4 hrs

Integrated course including the correlation of aural and visual approaches; fundamentals of music through sight-singing, ear-training, keyboard and improvisation; first semester topics include meter, rhythm, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, introduction to species counterpoint, and basic harmonic principles; second semester topics include all diatonic triads and seventh chords, secondary function, modulation to closely-related keys, melodic characteristics and basic form, texture and dramatic shape in music and binary, ternary and rounded binary formal structures.