Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MUS 101 — Music as an Art and Science:

MUS department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• On completion of this course, the student should be able to:
• identify the non-specialised scientific properties of musical sound
• identify the psychological aspects of music in its elemental tools; and
• identify the inter-relationship of the elements of music in sound production

Course contents

Arts 526 New Music as a humanistic expression. Elemental tools of rhythm, melody, harmony and tone colour. Scientific properties of musical sound (such as frequency and intensity) and their psychological counterparts (such as pitch and volume). Elementary discussion of musical acoustics.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MUS 101.

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