MUS 376: Comprehensive Musicianship IV - fall

Prerequisite: MUS 375 or permission of instructor

Last of a four-course sequence presenting foundational concepts and skills in music theory, ear-training, and keyboard work.  Comprehensive musicianship IV explores 19th- and 20th- compositional practices including harmonic chromaticism and form and analysis. The topics include modulation to distantly related keys, Neapolitan 6th and Augmented 6th chords, Fugue, Sonata Form, German Lied, and expansion of functional tonality in the late 19th century. A combination of written exercises, sight-singing, ear-training and keyboard work will be utilized enhance students' abilities to write, hear and perform music.