MUS 375: Comprehensive Musicianship III - spring

Prerequisite: MUS 226 or permission of instructor

Third of a four-course sequence presenting foundational concepts and skills in music theory, ear-training, and keyboard work.  Comprehensive musicianship III explores chromatic harmony, 18th-century contrapuntal genres, and formal structures. The topics covered in the course include secondary dominants and secondary leading-tone chords, modulation to closely related keys, two-voice invention, and small musical forms. A combination of written exercises, sight-singing, ear-training and keyboard work will be utilized enhance students' abilities to write, hear and perform music.