MUSC 1119 — Fundamentals of Western Music Theory

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath EIusually offered: fall, spring, summertypical days: ThBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Introduces students with little or no musical experience to all the major and minor key signatures and the following scales: major, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor. Topics include how to read music in treble clef, bass clef, and various C-clefs; how to identify and construct intervals, triads, and seventh chords; how melody and harmony work together to create a piece of music; roman numeral analyses; and various small forms. Short excerpts are analyzed, and students are required to write musical compositions.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Summer B 20231192770%8.0
Fall 20233455779%4.0
Spring 20242303879%4.0
Summer A 20241192576%6.0
Summer B 20241192770%8.0
Fall 20243545795%1.0
Spring 20252475094%1.5
Summer A 20251193063%11.0
Summer B 20251233077%7.0
Fall 20254447757%8.3
Spring 20262365072%7.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 33% · T 8% · W 43% · Th 55% · F 0%

Common patterns: MWR (33% of sections), async (28% of sections), R (22% of sections), W (9% of sections), T (8% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Summer A

Summer B

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

MUSC 1201, MUSC 2211

Courses that list MUSC 1119 in their prerequisites.

Links

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