Harmonic Practices and Musicianship for Musical Theatre

Catalog description

A course in music theory designed for students in Musical Theatre. Emphasis is placed on essential music theory concepts and provides basic aural skill training incorporating literature of the musical theatre genre. The course introduces the study of notation, rhythm, tonality, and harmony in the context of reading and aural perception through performance and dictation of melodies, intervals, triads, major and minor scales, chord progressions, band basic chord structures. Students demonstrate and apply learned concepts through dictation and praxis presentations. Registration Restrictions: Permission of instructor.