The course objective is to provide each student with fundamental knowledge and skills for their continuing enjoyment and further study of music. This course will develop the student?s musical understanding and awareness through an investigation of the acoustical, historical, stylistic, expressive, and rhetorical elements of music. Specifically, music notation, aural and written intervals, meter, rhythm, scales, chords, basic keyboard skills, melodic and rhythmic dictation and sight singing will be introduced. Emphasis will be on the fundamentals of "Western European" music.