Summer 2025

C O U R S E   M O D U L E S
	Fundamentals Review
2.	Harmonic Schemas in Popular Music
3.	Diatonic Harmony
4.	Sentences & Periods
5	Form in Popular Music
Online Resources
OMT2 Glossary On Music Dictionary

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Welcome to MUSC 115!

Course Documents

1. Syllabus (pdf)
   
• Links for Students
2. Daily Schedule
3. Listening/Analysis
   
4. Bibliography
   
   

Required Textbook (Open Access)

Mark Gotham, et al., Open Music Theory, Version 2 {OMT2} (Gotham, et al. 2023)

Assignments/Activities

See Blackboard

Course Materials

1. Assignments, Activities & Assessments
2. Handouts
3. The Nashville Number System
   
4. Aspects of Popular Music (Moore 2016)
   
5. Diatonic Harmony in Common-Practice Music
   
6. Music Notation
   
   

Projects

1. Chord Loop Project (pdf)
   
2. Melody Harmonization Project (pdf)
3. Form Project (pdf)
   
   

Activities

1. CAI Activity #1 (Thurs., June 26): Notes, Scales & Key Signatures
   
2. CAI Activity #2 (Thurs., July 3): Intervals & Triads
3. CAI Activity #3 (Wed., July 9): Seventh Chords
   
   

Online Calculators

1. Accidental Calculator {MT.net}
2. Interval Calculator {MT.net}
3. Scale Calculator {MT.net}
   
4. Chord Calculator {MT.net}
5. Roman Numeral Calculator {MT.net}
   
   

Music Theory Fundamentals Handouts

1. Keyboard Diagram (pdf)
2. Major and Minor Scales (pdf)
• Transposed Major Scales (pdf)
3. Solfège Syllables (pdf)
4. Scale Degree Names (pdf)
5. Key Signatures (pdf)
   
6. Intervals (pdf)
7. Interval Size in Semitones (pdf)
8. Interval Inversion (pdf)
9. Two-Voice Counterpoint Symbols (pdf)
   
10. Chord Types (pdf)
11. Triad Spelling (pdf)
    
12. Lead-Sheet Symbols (pdf)
13. Four-Chord Schemas (pdf)
    
14. Chord Inversions & Figured Bass (pdf)
15. The Chorale Style (pdf)
    
16. Embellishing Tones (pdf)
    
17. Roman Numerals (pdf)
    
    

Main References

See also: BAIN MUSC 115 Bibliography

Adams, Ricci. 2025. MusicTheory.net (MT.net). Available online at: <https://www.musictheory.net>.

Alvira, José Rodríguez. 2025. Teoria. Available online: <https://www.teoria.com>.

Feezell, Mark. 1998-2022. LearnMusicTheory.net (LMT). Available online at: <https://learnmusictheory.net>.

Gotham, Mark, et al. 2023. Open Music Theory, Version 2 (OMT2). Viva Press Publishing. Available online at: <https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/>.