<p>My music majors tell me it’s a whole lot of math - but not in the traditional sense - and that the classically or jazz trained keyboarding people have an easier go of it because they’re used to working with intervals and positions, etc. </p>
<p>It is true that these are the classes ( there are 5 courses in the theory sequence here) that do tend to weed out the people who can’t cut it as majors. I know we often chat about how hard/rigorous a STEM major is, but dang, those music kids put us all to shame. Still, if your S tested into it, his placement should be just fine. And with some work, he’ll be ok. He shouldn’t need to get a jump on things by studying this summer.</p>