AP Music Theory

Course Description

AP Music Theory is a course introducing the motivated and talented music students to musicianship, theory, musical materials, and theoretical procedures. The course is designed to provide students with the major components common to a first year course in a college music program. AP Music Theory integrates aspects of melody, harmony, texture, rhythm, form, musical analysis, elementary composition, and, to some extent, history and style. Musicianship skills such as dictation and other listening skills, sight-singing, and keyboard harmony are considered an important part of the course. The student’s fluency and ability to read and write standard musical notation is required for the successful completion of the course. It is also expected that the student has acquired at least basic performance skills in voice or on an instrument.