MUSIC 161-2
Introduction to Music Theory Through Music Software and Digital Audio Workspaces
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This introductory course covers the fundamentals of music theory and music literacy through music software and digital audio workspaces like Ableton Live, Logic, Garage Band, and ProTools. Topics include major and minor scales, modes, keys, time signatures, meter, intervals, triads, seventh chords, inversions, basic application of Roman numeral harmonic analysis, and form. Students create short electronic compositions that employ the theoretical concepts explored in the class. Other topics include exploration of popular and classical idioms and the development of basic aural skills.
Skills
- programmingtitle: "software"
- makingdepartment: MUSIC
AI-resilient: 0 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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