Music Theory, Keyboard, and Aural Skills IV

Catalog description

A course in music theory with focus on advanced materials in harmony, form, analysis and compositional methods. This is the fourth in a four-semester sequence of courses in music theory for those intending to major in music. The music theory component includes advanced materials in modal and chromatic harmony, form, analysis and compositional methods with particular emphasis on late nineteenth and twentieth-century techniques. The keyboard component involves the performance of major, minor, and chromatic scales and arpeggios and harmonization of chromatic, modal, and atonal melodies. Aural skills covered in this course include the sequential development of ear training, sight singing, and dictation.