Nov 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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MUSC 2200 - Introduction to Music (3 cr.)



Description
The course will consist of two parts. The first is an introduction to the fundamental elements of music, including harmony, melody, timbre, rhythm and tempo, dynamics, articulation, and texture; a brief survey of the doroob, i.e., the rhythms of Arab music; and to the instruments of the Western orchestra and the Arab takht, and to the human voice. The second is a survey of great music in the Western tradition and of some of the composers who created it, together with a brief look at some of the great musical performers and composers of Egyptian music in the 20th century.

When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.


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