MUSI 2401 - Theory, Form and Counterpoint III

4 hrs

Integrated course including the correlation of aural and visual approaches; fundamentals of music through sight-singing, ear-training, keyboard, improvisation and guided composition; first semester topics include invention, fugue, 18th Century variation technique, chromatic modulation, Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords, mode mixture, chromatic third relationships and compound ternary, rondo and sonata forms; second semester topics include the 19th Century practices of enharmonicism, tonicization and linear processes, the solo song, plus an introduction to 20th Century compositional techniques (Impressionism, interval organization, serial procedures and recent musical developments).