MUS-2026: 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: 3.19 (B+)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 32.56%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.63%
| Ester Sheinberg | 2011 | 66.7% | 19.2% | 9.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 4.7% | 3.56 | 2 |
| Wallace E Easter | 2019 | 50.7% | 33.8% | 13.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.6% | 3.41 | 2 |
| James S Miley | 2009 | 32.8% | 51.6% | 11.1% | 3.5% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 3.12 | 3 |
| Allen H Bachelder | 2006 | 75.0% | 17.4% | 4.5% | 1.5% | 1.5% | 0.0% | 3.59 | 2 |
| Kaleb Delk | 2016 | 39.5% | 28.8% | 17.5% | 8.7% | 0.0% | 5.6% | 3.08 | 2 |
| Caitlin G Martinkus | 2023 | 34.5% | 47.6% | 15.7% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 3.14 | 4 |
| John L Walker | 2015 | 14.6% | 45.5% | 28.9% | 9.9% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 2.66 | 4 |
| Edward Knoeckel | 2024 | 67.9% | 21.4% | 3.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 7.1% | 3.68 | 1 |
| Kent A Holliday | 2017 | 64.2% | 25.0% | 7.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.6% | 3.55 | 1 |