MUS-221: Music Theory III

Subject
Credits 3 Lab 0 Lecture 3

State Prerequisites

Session Cycle
Spring Only
Description

This course provides a comprehensive study of chromatic harmony. Emphasis is placed on advanced voice leading tasks, part writing, and analysis of chord progressions, modulations, and large-scale forms. Upon completion, students should be able to identify, notate, and analyze an array of chromatic chords, recognize the function and movement of chromatic harmonies, identify modulatory procedures, analyze formal structures including, but not limited to, binary, ternary, sonata, and rondo.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a premajor and/or elective course requirement.