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Apr 23, 2024
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MUS 220 - Music Theory III
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Course Description:
This a continuation of the traditional music theory sequence. Attention is given to the various seventh chords, chromatic harmony, chromatic modulations, complex rhythms and non-chord tones. This course helps students build critical thinking and problem-solving skills through careful diagnosis and analysis, consider the viewpoints of others, and effectively express themselves, all of which will benefit them in the classroom, in life, and in the workforce.
Corequisites: MUS 235 - Music Theory Lab III
Prerequisites: MUS 121 - Music Theory II and MUS 136 - Music Theory Lab II
Prerequisites/Corequisites: MUS-118, MUS-119, MUS-120, MUS-121 Pre-requisites/or Co-requisites: MUS-218
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
1. Identify, explain and discuss the fundamental terms and elements of music in specific and detailed depth as used throughout early history.
2. Analyze, identify, construct, and interpret application of accepted principles of music theory in early music through the Classical era.
3. Demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret the principles of harmony from the Middle Ages and Renaissance with special emphasis on the use of counterpoint.
4. Demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret the principles of harmony from the Classical era with special emphasis on the use of Borrowed, Neapolitan 6th and Augmented 6th chords.
5. Analyze and apply knowledge of the principles of form from Middle Ages through the Classical era covering fugal, variation, sonata and rondo forms.
6. Compare and contrast the development of musical style throughout history especially in regard to the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical eras.
7. Develop an awareness for aesthetic criteria by composing various compositions making use of a variety of music theory practices.
8. Experience team-approach learning through critique of each other’s work.
9. Experience various community-based educational and cultural offerings by either active participation and/or attendance at these events.
Course Objectives:
1. Study and analyze sixteenth -century music.
2. Study and analyze eighteenth-century counterpoint & fugues.
3. Discover the role of borrowed chords.
4. Identify Neapolitan 6th chords.
5. Differentiate between the three types of augmented 6th chords.
6. Understand the importance of variation technique and the very large number of works composed in this genre and style.
7. Distinguish among ground bass, ground, fundamental bass, figured bass, and thorough bas.
8. Understand the difference between sonata form and the genre, sonata.
9. Understand the four basic types of rondos (3-part, 5-part, etc.).
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