Enhanced Musical Language

This course is a progressive training in fundamental musical skills building from MUS 1112. The skills will include: basics in sight singing, melodic and harmonic diction, interval and chord identification. This course will also equip students with the principals of basic harmony, one of the elements of music and a skill acquired through continuous practicing. The course will also offer a component of aural skills, the ability to hear and then transcribe music using both conventional and modern styles of notating popular music.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Objectives: 

•  To enhance comprehension the basic elements of music and musical terminology regarding pitch, tonality and mode, melody and melodic structure, rhythm and meter, timbre, and texture
• To equip students will skills in transcription and notationin both conventional and modern styles
• To equip students will basic principles of music harmony