MUS 221 - Music Theory IV
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.
Prerequisites: MUS 118 - Sight-Singing and Ear Training I , MUS 119 - Sight-Singing and Ear Training II , MUS 120 - Music Theory I , MUS 121 - Music Theory II , MUS 218 - Sight-Singing and Ear Training III , and MUS 220 - Music Theory III
Prerequisites/Corequisites: MUS-118, MUS-119, MUS-120, MUS-121 • Permission of the instructor • Successful completion of Music Theory I-III • Enrolled in Music Theory Lab IV (Music Majors)
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
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
1. Learn and use a vocabulary specific to music.
2. Develop technical skills in notating music manuscript.
3. Develop critical analysis skills.
4.Demonstrate ability to analyze, identify, construct and interpret application of accepted principles of music theory.
5. Understand and apply the principles of harmony.
6. Discuss and analyze various musical excerpts in terms of intervals, chords and transposition.
7. Demonstrate knowledge, application and construction of voice leading in 2 and 4 voices.
8. Demonstrate knowledge and application of harmonic progression and harmonic rhythm.
9. Demonstrate knowledge, application and construction of dominant seventh, leading-tone seventh and nondominant seventh chords as well as secondary dominant and secondary leading-tone chords.
10. Gain a knowledge of the development of musical style throughout history.
Course Objectives:
1. Unit One: The Classical Period (Chapter 9)
- Understand the four basic types of rondos (3-part, 5-part, etc.).
2. Unit Two: Extended and Chromatic Harmony (Chapters 10-12) - Identify 9th, 11th, and 13th chords according to their certain requirements.
- Find examples of altered dominants in music of the late-romantic and post-romantic periods as well as in American jazz.
- Differentiate between chromatic mediants and other altered chords.
3. Unit Three: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Chapters 13-17)
- Become acquainted with, and analyze musical examples with differing styles within this period.
- Explore analytical methods which represent both a radical departure from, and a logical extension of preceding eras
- Discover a number of contemporary devices as well as set theory
- Interpret the new method of analysis of twelve-tone technique
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