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Course Syllabus

MUSC 2110 Music Theory III

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: MUSC 1120 with a grade of C or better
  • Corequisites: MUSC 2130
  • Semesters Offered: Fall
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2024
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2029
  • End Semester: Summer 2030
  • Optimum Class Size: 15
  • Maximum Class Size: 20

Course Description

This course is a continuation of basic music theory. Includes chromatic harmony, composition, improvisation and analysis.

Justification

This course is required of music majors throughout most university systems. The second year of theory is taught at all Utah universities.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. The students will be able to write and analyze four-part common practice chorales with chromatic and modulatory harmonies.
  2. The students will be able to compose in assigned styles in accordance with accepted conventions.
  3. The students will be able to analyze complex 19th Century masterworks formally and harmonically.
  4. The students will be able to analyze and write in basic 20th Century harmonic practices.
  5. Students will also be able to write using common chord-symbol notation, and show their results through the use of music notation software.

Course Content

This course will focus on skill building in some or all of the following areas: • common practice period four part choral writing • chromatic and modulatory harmonies • formal analysis: Rondo, Binary, Ternary and Sonata forms• micro and macro analysis of Romantic, Late-Romantic, Impressionist and Nationalistic works• the use and common practice of chord symbols• an introduction to basic 20th Century harmonic practices Instructors will seek to offer students multiple approaches and perspectives from which to understand and apply principles.