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    Learning music fundamentals is critical for university musicians. Students take a theory placement test during orientation to assess their mastery of fundamentals like reading music, scales, chords, and harmony. Those needing more work must take a fundamentals course, which provides elective but not major credit. Students can prepare by taking lessons, online courses, textbooks, or community college classes to strengthen their fundamentals before the placement test. Gaining experience through multiple methods helps build a strong foundation for continued musical progress.

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    Learning music fundamentals is critical for university musicians. Students take a theory placement test during orientation to assess their mastery of fundamentals like reading music, scales, chords, and harmony. Those needing more work must take a fundamentals course, which provides elective but not major credit. Students can prepare by taking lessons, online courses, textbooks, or community college classes to strengthen their fundamentals before the placement test. Gaining experience through multiple methods helps build a strong foundation for continued musical progress.

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    Learning music fundamentals is critical for university musicians. Students take a theory placement test during orientation to assess their mastery of fundamentals like reading music, scales, chords, and harmony. Those needing more work must take a fundamentals course, which provides elective but not major credit. Students can prepare by taking lessons, online courses, textbooks, or community college classes to strengthen their fundamentals before the placement test. Gaining experience through multiple methods helps build a strong foundation for continued musical progress.

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    Learning Music Fundamentals

    A secure knowledge music fundamentals—the basic materials of music—is critical to your success as a
    university-trained musician. During orientation you will take a Theory Placement Test. If you demonstrate
    a mastery of music fundamentals on the exam, you may enroll in Theory I and Aural Skills I in your first
    semester. If , however, you need more work in this area you will need to take Fundamentals of Music (MUT
    1300) first. This course can be counted as elective credit, but it does not count toward the required courses
    for the music major.

    Generally, a mastery of music fundamentals should include:

    • fluency in reading note names in bass and treble clefs (Familiarity with movable C clefs is also
    helpful.)
    • proficiency in using common elements of musical notation (e.g. notes, clefs, sharps and flats, beams)
    • an understanding of and ability to read basic rhythm and meter
    • an understanding of major and minor scales and keys
    • an understanding of enharmonic spellings and chromatics
    • the ability to recognize and write intervals
    • the ability to recognize and write triads and seventh chord
    • an understanding of chord inversion
    • an introduction to diatonic harmony (e.g. cadence types, roman numeral labels)

    If you have not already learned the fundamentals of music, or if you just want to review, there are several
    ways you might prepare for your college placement exams.

    • Ask your music teacher for help or information. Talk to your choir, band, or private teacher, a
    minister of music, or any musician with whom you have contact. Perhaps you could arrange tutoring
    or private lessons. Talk to your high school teachers and administrators about offering theory
    courses.
    • Take piano lessons. Find a piano teacher who will work with you on both piano and basic theory
    skills. This will help you prepare for both the required theory classes and class piano study. Even if
    you have only a few months to study, every little bit helps. This is probably the single most
    important thing you can do to prepare for college music study.
    • Contact a local community college or university. Many schools offer fundamentals classes in the
    summer and evenings. At some schools, high school juniors and seniors are eligible to take such
    courses.
    • Take an on-line fundamentals course. A wide variety of resources are available on the Web.
    Quality varies widely, but many at least provide opportunities for drill and practice.
    • Buy a computer-based tutorial.
    • Buy a text book. With the aid of a text, you may work on your own or with a tutor. There are
    several texts that can be used with minimal direct supervision.
    • Stephan Kostka and Dorothy Payne, Tonal Harmony. This text, used in Theory I - III at
    Belmont, provides a good though brief review of fundamentals.
    • Paul Harder and Greg Steinke, Basic Materials in Music Theory: A Programmed Course. This
    text is designed to be a mostly self-teaching.
    • John Clough, et al., Scales, Intervals, Keys, Triads, Rhythm and Meter. W.W. Norton, 1999.
    This is also a programmed text, that is, it is designed to be self-teaching.

    Many other music fundamentals and music theory texts are available. Consult a book store or on-line
    book dealer for more ideas.

    It is very much to your advantage to gain as much background in music fundamentals as possible before you
    enroll at Belmont. If you took the Placement Test on your audition day, you may take it again before classes
    begin, provided you have taken some specific steps to improve your score. There is no one way to learn
    music fundamentals and no path guarantees success. The best approach is to gain as much experience as
    possible through as many avenues as possible. Fundamentals really is fundamental to your continued
    progress as a musician. The best music education is built from a strong foundation.

    Revised Aug. 2010 RH 

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