| Harmony & Counterpoint Harmony & Counterpoint Sequence Harmony & Counterpoint 1 Harmony & Counterpoint 2 Harmony & Counterpoint 3 Harmony & Counterpoint 4 ________________________________________________________________________________ Harmony & Counterpoint Sequence The four semester harmony and counterpoint sequence provides the means and the vocabulary to understand, imitate, and analyze music of the Common Practice Period – (1600–1900; Baroque, Classic, and Romantic. ________________________________________________________________________________ Harmony & Counterpoint 1 MU115 Fall Semester 2008 Credits: 2 Prerequisite: placement Course Objectives The objectives specific to Harmony & Counterpoint 1 are the ability to write and to make a harmonic analysis of four-part chorale style exercises using root position and first inversion triads. These skills will be achieved through an understanding of, and proficiency in applying the following: • 1st, 2nd, and 3rd species counterpoint • inversion symbols and figured bass • diatonic triads in major and minor keys • identification of 7th chords • principles of voice leading • root position part writing • 1st inversion part writing • harmonic progression • harmonizing a melody • harmonizing a bass line Midterm Project a 2nd species counterpoint and cantus firmus to be performed by the student Final Project a four-part Chorale to be performed by the student Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com THE MUSIC THEORY HANDBOOK Marjorie Merryman Wadsworth Publishing, 1996 ISBN: 9780155026629 371 FOUR-PART CHORALES Johann Sebastian Bach Alfred Publishing Company, 1985 ISBN: 9780769240916 WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC Aaron Copland Signet Classics, 2002 ISBN: 9780451528674 TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Harmony & Counterpoint 2 MU116 Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Music Fundamentals, or Harmony & Counterpoint 1, or placement Course Objectives The objectives specific to Harmony & Counterpoint 2 are the ability to write and to make a harmonic analysis of four-part chorale style exercises and of baroque and classical keyboard literature incorporating non-chord tones, seventh chords and second inversion triads. These skills will be achieved through an understanding of, and proficiency in applying the following: • 4th species counterpoint • triads in second inversion • cadences, phrases, and periods • non-chord tones • usage and resolution of diatonic seventh chords • introduction to secondary functions Midterm Project a keyboard prelude modeled on Bach's Prelude No.1 in C Major BWV 846 to be performed by the student Final Project a Theme and Variations in the style of Mozart, with an oral presentation and written analysis Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com VARIATIONS, RONDOS, AND OTHER WORKS FOR PIANO Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486268828 THE MUSIC THEORY HANDBOOK 371 FOUR-PART CHORALES WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK see MU115 Harmony & Counterpoint 1 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Harmony & Counterpoint 3 MU215 Fall Semester 2008 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Harmony & Counterpoint 2 or placement Course Objectives The objectives specific to Harmony & Counterpoint 3 are the ability to write in and to make an analysis of 18th and 19th-century harmonic language, and to write and to make a harmonic analysis of four-part chorale style exercises incorporating tonicization and modulation. These skills will be achieved through an understanding of, and proficiency in applying the following: • secondary dominant chords • secondary leading-tone chords • common chord modulation • modulation by common tone, altered chord, and sequence • binary and ternary form Midterm Project a keyboard minuet in the style of Scarlatti, with an oral presentation and written analysis Final Project a strophic song in the style of Schubert, with an oral presentation and written analysis Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com COMPLETE SONG CYCLES Franz Schubert Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486226491 THE MUSIC THEORY HANDBOOK 371 FOUR-PART CHORALES WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK see MU115 Harmony & Counterpoint 1 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Harmony & Counterpoint 4 MU216 Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Harmony & Counterpoint 3 or placement Course Objectives The objectives specific to Harmony & Counterpoint 4 are the ability to write and to make an analysis of simple sonata form, and to write and make a harmonic analysis of four-part chorale style exercises and keyboard works incorporating mode mixture, Neapolitan chords, and augmented sixth chords, and to acquire an understanding of the harmonic language of late Romantic and early modernist music up to Debussy and Ravel. These skills will be achieved through an understanding of and proficiency in applying the following: • borrowed chords • the Neapolitan sixth • augmented sixth chords • enharmonicism • extended chords • expanded tonality Midterm Project a sonata exposition, with an oral presentation and written analysis Final Project a prelude in the style of Chopin, with an oral presentation and written analysis Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com PIANO SONATAS VOLUME 1 Ludwig Van Beethoven Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486231341 PRELUDES, OP. 28 |
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