Musicianship III.

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The third of a four-semester sequence studying the language of music through notated, aural, and descriptive daily work. In this course, students will use creative projects, listening, analysis, and discussion to develop their understanding of music innovations from the late-19th through mid-20th centuries. Important topics include rhythm and meter, non-functional tonal harmony, modes of the diatonic scale, synthetic scales, set theory, atonality, serialism, indeterminacy, graphic notation, and more. Students will create music through a variety of traditional, improvised, and technological means, develop music reading and dictation skills, and apply musical terms in descriptive writing about music, both familiar and new. Prerequisite: MUSC 124 .