Lecture: 4 hours per week
Classes will include explanation and demonstration of concepts by the instructor and practice of the concepts by the student in the form of written, verbal, individual and group activities.
Content will include, but is not limited to the following:
- Scales
- Review of major and minor scales
- Chromatic scales
- Modal scales
- Pentatonic scales
- Blues and Major Blues scales
- Whole tone scales
- Octatonic scales
- Rhythm and Meter
- Review of simple and compound meters
- Time signatures with less common beat units (e.g. 3/2, 6/4)
- Irregular groupings
- Irregular meters
- Syncopation
- Harmony
- Triad types, root position and inversions
- Seventh chords, root position and inversions
- Traditional nomenclature of chords
- Figured bass inversion symbols
- Roman numeral labels
- Lead-sheet chord symbols
- Chord progression
- Cadence types
- Transposition
- by key
- by interval
- Musical Structure
- Phrase and cadence
- Simple binary and ternary forms
- Song forms including 12-bar blues and 32-bar popular songs
- Song writing
- Writing melodies
- Writing harmonic progressions
- Working with form
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- communicate an expanded working knowledge of the rudiments of music;
- demonstrate notational fluency with basic tonal and rhythmic materials;
- analyse simple tonal music;
- compose short musical exercises using specified materials;
- participate constructively in the college classroom.
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Assessment will be based on course objectives and will be carried out in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation in a course as part of the student’s graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation must be clearly defined in the Instructor Course Outline. The following is a sample grades breakdown: |
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Homework and small assignments (no individual grade weighted at more than 2%) |
10% |
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Assignments (completed independently outside of class, minimum of 2) |
10% |
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Quizzes, Speed Drills, In-class Activities (minimum of 10) |
25% |
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Tests (4 tests, top 3 grades recorded @ 10% each) |
30% |
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Final Examination |
20% |
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Class Participation |
5% |
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TOTAL |
100% |
A required text and/or digital resource may be assigned by the instructor.
Text example:
Current edition of Henry, Earl, Jennifer Snodgrass, and Susan Piagentini. Fundamentals of Music: Rudiments, Musicianship and Composition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Digital resource example:
Student subscription to Artusi Music (www.artusimusic.com)