MUSICA PRACTICA 1

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Music, Music: Performance or Music: Education Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify chords and intervals, identify chord function in a progression, and locate and analyze basic harmonic cadences. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify key signatures, play at the piano and sing major and minor scales, understand basic elements of music notation, and apply that knowledge to singing and playing basic melodies. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand Roman-numeral analysis and figured-bass symbols, and how to apply both to analyze a piece of diatonic, tonal music. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe the basic elements of species counterpoint and be able to apply that knowledge to compose based on the principles of first- through fifth-species counterpoint. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify chords and intervals, identify chord function in a progression, and locate and analyze basic harmonic cadences. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify key signatures, play at the piano and sing major and minor scales, understand basic elements of music notation, and apply that knowledge to singing and playing basic melodies. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand Roman-numeral analysis and figured-bass symbols, and how to apply both to analyze a piece of diatonic, tonal music. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe the basic elements of species counterpoint and be able to apply that knowledge to compose based on the principles of first- through fifth-species counterpoint. Audience: Undergraduate