Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Use the basic definitions of "Music" to create an original work with classmates.
• Use the historical development of music notation to demonstrate how each idiom can be used.
• Find and name pitches in four different clefs in class and in text exercises.
• Transcribe rhythms into counting patterns and counting patterns into rhythms in class and exercises assigned.
• Write Major scales from given notes or key signatures in class and text assignments.
• Write Minor scales from key signatures in their three forms in class and in text exercises.
• Find and identify pitches on the piano keyboard, then create scales using them in text exercises.
• Write and identify simple intervals on the music staff and keyboard in class and exercises.
• Construct asked-for chords on the music staff or keyboard in class or exercises.
• Demonstrate their knowledge of coursework in successful Midterm and Final Examinations.