MUS 214 - Music Theory and Ear Training 4

4 credit hours - Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory weekly; one term.
Continues studies completed in MUS 213, Music Theory and Ear Training 3. Conduct an in-depth study of chromatic harmony; examine some techniques of 20th century composition, including 12-tone and serial music. Learn writing in small forms. Continue developing sight singing, dictation and keyboard skills. Analysis of works relating to problems being studied. Lab fee $3.

Prerequisite(s): MUS 213 or permission of department chair.

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

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall and spring

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

Review and strengthen/mastery of foundational content in music theory.
Develop proficiency in Sonata and Rondo form.
Develop proficiency in modal, pentatonic, whole-tone, and octatonic tonalities.
Develop proficiency in tertian polychord and polytonality.
Develop proficiency in secundal, quartal, and quintal harmony.
Develop proficiency parallelism/planning.
Develop proficiency in atonality and twelve-tone serialism.
Apply constructs in a capstone composition project.
Apply constructs in a capstone analytical research project.
Increase skills of sight singing skills (melody and rhythm) of melodic, harmonic, and rhythm dictation.