REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

 1.  Identify basic elements of music notation, including clefs, pitch, rhythm, and meter.

 2.  Use written and aural skills to explain diatonic and non-diatonic scales.

 3.  Identify major and minor key signatures.

 4.  Identify melodic intervals using written and aural skills.

 5.  Construct triads in four qualities (major, minor, augmented, diminished) and dominant seventh (V7) chords in any key.

 6.  Build diatonic triads in major and minor keys.

 7.  Analyze basic chord progressions and cadences using chord symbols.

 8.  Create chord progressions and harmonize folk/lead sheet melodies utilizing basic principles of harmony.

 9.  Demonstrate beginning level melodic and rhythmic dictation skills.

 10. Demonstrate sight singing skills using solfege for short melodic sequences in stepwise motion.

 REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 I.     Pitch Notation

         A. Staff, clef, note names, chromatic alteration, enharmonic

 II. Rhythm Notation

         A. Duration, meter, and tempo

 III. Diatonic scales and key signatures

 IV. Non-diatonic scales

         A. Pentatonic, Blues, and whole-tone scales

 V. Intervals

 VI. Triads and chord qualities

         A. Major, minor, augmented, diminished, and dominant seventh (V7) chords

 VII. Chord symbols

         A.  Macro and popular chord symbols

 VIII. Harmonization and lead sheet notation

 IX. Diatonic triads in major and minor keys and introduction to Roman numeral analysis

 X. Principles of harmonization and chord progression