MUSC& 242: Music Theory 5

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Class Program

Music

Credits

Clinical Hours None

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091227

Meets Degree Requirements For

Humanities

Description

The fifth of a six-term course sequence in written and aural music theory: learn to analyze, employ, sing and transcribe advanced chromatic music and advanced forms.

Grading Basis

Graded

Prerequisites

MUSC& 241 or equivalent

Course Learning Outcomes

Understand musical terms related to harmony.

Identify and utilize triads and triad inversions in musical examples.

Identify and utilize seventh chords in musical examples.

Understand use of chromatic chords in musical examples.

Examine modulation to closely remote keys in musical examples.

Harmonize advanced melodies using proper voice leading, triad and seventh chord inversions, nonharmonic tones and cadences.

Core Topics

Written Theory-Fifth Quarter

At the end of the fifth quarter the successful student will gain and be able to demonstrate fluency, knowledge and/or competency in the curriculum from all previous quarters, as well as in the following areas:

Mode mixture, including its employment for modulation to foreign keys.
Identification and spelling of Neapolitan and Augmented 6th chords.
Part-writing and contextual analysis of Neapolitan and Augmented 6th and enharmonically spelled diminished 7th chords, including their employment for modulation.
Part-writing and contextual analysis of tall and altered tertian chords.
Composition of short works with exotic modulations and/or chromatic and tall chords for voice, choir, or a variety of small instrumental ensembles.

Aural Theory-Fifth Quarter

At the end of the fifth quarter the successful student will have gain and be able to demonstrate fluency, knowledge and/or competency in the curriculum from all previous quarters, as well as in the following identification, sight-singing and transcription areas:

Melodies in tenor clef, with pedal tones, raised 2 and 6, flat 3 and 7, and leaps of up to an eleventh.
Melodies in major and minor keys that outline the mode-mixture harmonies, diatonic chords with 7ths, and secondary harmony of the supertonic and subdominant.
Outer voices and chords in harmonic dictations in major and minor keys that include diatonic chords with 7ths, and secondary harmony of the supertonic and subdominant.
Music that includes 2nd inversion chords as passing and neighbor chords, prolongation of harmony through voice exchange, ascending sequences and suspensions.
Melodies, rhythms and 2-part rhythms that include double-dotted notes/rests, partial-beat triplets, multi-beat triplets and duplet-triplet simultaneity.