MUS 3A - THEORY & MUSICIANSHIP I

    Recent Professors
    AHMED ELGASSEIR
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026
    Class Size
    15–40 students
    Credits
    5
    Spring 2027 Sections
    View Spring 2027 sections of MUS 3A
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3A · IGETC Area 3A · CSU GE Area C1
    Description
    Introduction to the fundamentals of music and their application to composition and music literature. Notation, scales, intervals, triads, essential cadential formulas and phrase structure and their use in basic composition. Musicianship skills to include melodic dictation with leaps within the triad, rhythmic dictation in different meters, ear recognition of intervals, triad qualities including inversions, and dominant seventh chords, sight-singing simple step-wise melodies.