MUS 211 - Music Theory IV

3 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s): MUS 111 and MUS 112 and MUS 113.

(MUS211, MUS 212 , MUS 213  courses must be taken in sequence, unless Instructor permission is granted.)

Corequisite(s): MUS 224

Course Description: Continues MUS 111 , MUS 112  and MUS 113 . Offers students a clear and thorough introduction to the resources and practice of Western music with a focus on formal and harmonic analysis. Examines a variety of compositional forms of Baroque & Classical eras and explores the ways that their renderings live in the music of our time. Topics include the study of binary, ternary, rounded binary, sonata-allegro (or first movement form), rondo, and fugue.

Course Level: Lower Division Collegiate

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Demonstrate an ability to recognize binary, rounded binary, ternary, sonata-allegro, rondo form and fugue by looking at the music and also by listening to the music. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
CLO#2: Demonstrate an understanding of the formal structure of sonata-allegro.
CLO#3: Demonstrate an ability to recognize modulations on paper and by listening.