This is the final course in a three-semester integrated musicianship sequence for music majors. The course develops advanced aural, analytical, and realization skills through the coordinated study of audiation, sight singing, rhythmic organization, harmonic perception, and functional keyboard use. Emphasis is placed on hierarchical pitch awareness, chromatic harmony, harmonic substitution, and modulation within tonal contexts. Students engage in singing, dictation, transcription, and keyboard-based realization activities that reinforce the relationship between hearing, analysis, and physical performance. The course prioritizes functional understanding and internalization of musical structures rather than instrumental virtuosity. No Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): MUSIC 1630 Music Theory II and MUSIC 1640 Aural & Keyboard Skills 2 or permission of the instructor.
Corequisite(s): MUSIC 2610 Music Theory III.
MUSIC 1630 Music Theory II (3 hours)
A continuation of MUSIC 1610 including inversions of triads, non-harmonic tones, dominant seventh chords, and their resolutions. Emphasis is on four-part writing and analysis of music from the Common Practice Period.
Prerequisite(s): MUSIC 1610 Music Theory I or permission of the instructor.
MUSIC 1640 Aural & Keyboard Skills 2 (1 hour)
Aural & Keyboard Skills 2 is the second course in a three-semester integrated musicianship sequence for music majors. The course expands students' audiation, sight singing, rhythmic fluency, harmonic perception, and functional keyboard skills within diatonic tonal contexts. Emphasis is placed on compound intervals, seventh chords, cadential function, melodic elaboration of harmonic progressions, and functional prolongation using chord inversions. Students engage in coordinated singing, dictation, analysis, and keyboard realization activities designed to strengthen the relationship between hearing, notation, and physical performance. The course prioritizes functional understanding and musical fluency rather than instrumental virtuosity.
Prerequisite(s): MUSIC 1610 Music Theory I and MUSIC 1620 Aural and Keyboard Skills 1.
Corequisite(s): MUSIC 1630 Music Theory II.
MUSIC 2610 Music Theory III (3 hours)
Seventh chords, including the diminished seventh chord; various types of modulation; introduction of secondary dominants; analysis and writing of the period, binary, and ternary song forms; choral harmonization; and modal scales.
Prerequisite(s): MUSIC 1630 Music Theory II or permission of the instructor.