MU 142
Popular and Comm Music
The course provides foundations in music theory to prepare students for further
work in popular music and jazz. Students will learn the elements of harmony
(intervals, chords, progressions, voicing), melody (scales, modes), rhythm
(groove), and form, and takes lead sheet notation as the principal mode of
notation. Students will work primarily with chord symbols, but the course will also
facilitate an introductory-level competency with roman numeral notation and the
Nashville number system.
The course provides foundations in music theory to prepare students for further
work in popular music and jazz. Students will learn the elements of harmony
(intervals, chords, progressions, voicing), melody (scales, modes), rhythm
(groove), and form, and takes lead sheet notation as the principal mode of
notation. Students will work primarily with chord symbols, but the course will also
facilitate an introductory-level competency with roman numeral notation and the
Nashville number system.
The course provides foundations in music theory to prepare students for further
work in popular music and jazz. Students will learn the elements of harmony
(intervals, chords, progressions, voicing), melody (scales, modes), rhythm
(groove), and form, and takes lead sheet notation as the principal mode of
notation. Students will work primarily with chord symbols, but the course will also
facilitate an introductory-level competency with roman numeral notation and the
Nashville number system.
