MUS-206 Music Theory III
MUS 206 continues the study of tonal harmony and voice leading from MUS 107. MUS 206 also includes a survey of common chromatic chords, modulation and modal inflection as well as basic formal types and fundamental procedures in fugue. Attendance at one hour of keyboard lab weekly is required in addition to the lectures.
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Course Outline
Department
Visual and Performing Arts
Course Description
MUS 206 continues the study of tonal harmony and voice leading from MUS 107. MUS 206 also includes a survey of common chromatic chords, modulation and modal inflection as well as basic formal types and fundamental procedures in fugue. Attendance at one hour of keyboard lab weekly is required in addition to the lectures.
Credit Hours
3Course Learning Outcomes
- Write diatonic and chromatic part-writing exercises
- Analyze more advanced diatonic and chromatic literature excerpts from the 18th and 19th century for form, harmony, and structure
Topic Outline
- 1. Review of tonal grammar and its components
- a. Syntax: functional and non-functional progressions
- b. Texture and part writing
- c. Cadences and articulations
- d. Tonicization and modulation
- 2. Form
- a. Phrases, period forms, and sentences
- b. Binary and ternary forms
- c. Sonata form
- d. Rondo form
- 3. Basic elements of 18th-century (Bach-style) fugue
- 4. Further chromaticism
- a. Modal borrowing and mixture
- b. Neapolitan sixth chords
- c. Augmented sixth chords
- 5. Realizing short figured bass progressions at the keyboard