MUS 201(F), 202(S) Music Theory and Musicianship II

Music 201-202 presents the harmonic practices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (c. 1825-1950) through analysis, performance, dictation, and composition of characteristic examples of "romantic" and "modern" harmony. In Music 201 the development of chromatic harmony is presented from Beethoven through Debussy and Mahler by means of analysis, composition, sight-singing, keyboard application and dictation. In Music 202 the principles of twentieth-century harmony, from Schoenberg to Varese and the "avant-garde," are presented by means of analysis, composition, sight-singing, performance application and dictation. To supplement the development of musical skills appropriate to the period, students are expected to attend weekly skills labs in ear-training, sight-singing, and keyboard application, as well as to develop, outside of class, their vocal, aural, and keyboard competence through regular practice of the materials supplied. Three lectures and one skills lab session per week. Evaluation will be based on class participation, written projects of various lengths, and a final exam. Prerequisite: Music 104 or permission of instructor.

Hour: SUDERBURG