Course: Music Theory
Description: Fall & Spring Semester
This course introduces elementary harmony designed to familiarize the student with the study of scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and their inversions. The course includes harmonizing melodies and figured bass lines using primary chords. This course helps students build critical thinking and problem-solving skills through careful diagnosis and analysis, consider the viewpoints of others, and effectively express themselves, all of which will benefit them in the classroom, in life, and in the workforce. The course serves as a college preparatory course for those interested in pursuing the study of music after high school, and for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of music.
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None