MUS-2025: European-American Music Theory
Description: Fundamental elements of music and conventions of genre and style in a global context. 2025: pitch & harmony, rhythm & meter, timbre, texture, and movement. Emphasis on rote learning of pitch notation, intervals, key signatures, chords vs non-chord tones, and pitch collections. Methods to analyze harmony, phrase structure, and meter. Develop vocabulary for timbre and texture. Basic skills of score reading and transposition. 2026: form, as well as more complex harmonic and rhythmic processes, such as harmonic rhythm, syntax and metric dissonance. Increase complexity of score reading to include larger ensembles. In-depth study of genre, considering elements of harmony, rhythm & meter, and form in European and North-American classical, jazz, and popular musics.
Pathways: N/A
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 21
Average GPA: 3.06 (B+)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 30.29%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.97%
| Kaleb Delk | 2015 | 26.7% | 42.5% | 23.9% | 0.0% | 2.4% | 4.4% | 2.93 | 2 |
| John L Walker | 2014 | 9.5% | 50.3% | 29.9% | 6.0% | 3.2% | 1.0% | 2.57 | 4 |
| Caitlin G Martinkus | 2022 | 37.5% | 42.2% | 8.2% | 1.8% | 4.4% | 5.7% | 3.11 | 4 |
| Allen H Bachelder | 2005 | 74.4% | 20.2% | 1.5% | 1.9% | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3.59 | 2 |
| James S Miley | 2008 | 40.8% | 37.2% | 11.3% | 0.9% | 9.8% | 0.0% | 2.97 | 3 |
| Wallace E Easter | 2018 | 70.8% | 19.4% | 8.1% | 0.0% | 1.7% | 0.0% | 3.51 | 2 |
| Ester Sheinberg | 2010 | 34.0% | 33.0% | 22.1% | 9.5% | 1.6% | 0.0% | 2.86 | 2 |
| Kent A Holliday | 2016 | 75.0% | 15.6% | 0.0% | 6.2% | 3.1% | 0.0% | 3.56 | 1 |
| Edward Knoeckel | 2023 | 53.0% | 26.5% | 11.8% | 2.9% | 0.0% | 5.9% | 3.32 | 1 |