This course is offered every other year (even years/Fall 2024) and serves as a precursor to AP Music Theory. You must take this course in order to take AP Music Theory in the fall of 2025. 

This course will cover the basic elements of music notation, key signatures, meter, tempo, rhythm, major and minor scales, non-diatonic scales, modes, intervals, triads, chord construction and basic progressions, transposition, the harmonization of melodies, cadences, melodic line, modulation, four-part writing, and four-part analysis.  Additional topics will include music history and musical forms.

Extra help is available after school, by appointment