May 11, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

MUS 114 - Music Theory and Ear Training 2

4 credit hours - Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory weekly; one term.
A study of seventh chords, modulatory progressions and chromaticism using creative composition. Analysis, sight singing and music dictation are continued. Lab fee $3.

Prerequisite(s): MUS 113  or permission of department chair.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Spring and summer

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Review and strengthen/mastery of foundational content.
  2. Develop proficiency in the second level analysis/prolongation of harmony.
  3. Increase skills and abilities in part-writing (SATB texture) skills through the inclusion of inverted harmony.
  4. Develop proficiency in the resolution of selected seventh chords.
  5. Develop proficiency in the recognition/application of non-chord tones.
  6. Develop proficiency in the recognition/application of cadences and small homophonic formal units.
  7. Increase skills and abilities in melodic harmonization (SATB texture) skills through the inclusion of inverted harmony, selected seventh chords, non-chord tones, cadences, and small homophonic formal units.
  8. Increase skills and abilities in sight singing skills, melodic and rhythm dictation and harmonic dictation.