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: 6
Average GPA: 3.08 (rounds to B)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 28.62%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 5.48%
| Caitlin G Martinkus | 2022 | 37.5% | 42.2% | 8.2% | 1.8% | 4.4% | 5.7% | 3.11 | 4 |
| Edward Knoeckel | 2023 | 53.0% | 26.5% | 11.8% | 2.9% | 0.0% | 5.9% | 3.32 | 1 |
| Kimberly G Loeffert | 2024 | 48.0% | 16.0% | 12.0% | 4.0% | 16.0% | 4.0% | 2.74 | 1 |