CONTEMPORARY MUSIC THEORY

Catalog description

This is a multipurpose music theory course covering essential topics that are central to understanding and analyzing contemporary music and harmony, including chord reharmonization, substitution, embellishment, and improvisation. Music examined includes jazz, pop, rock, gospel, blues, and other forms of CCM. Topics include Diatonic and diatonic-related concepts. This course is intended to provide a method of studying music theory in which Roman Numeral analysis will be used to interpret harmonic movement, trends, and resolution. The concepts, principles, and techniques taught in this course are pertinent to music arranging, composition, or pedagogy and is relevant to the practical needs of the modern-day musician/performer.