MUS 216 - Music Theory IV/Form & Analysis

3 Credit Hours

Studies ninth, eleventh and thirteenth chords, advanced modulations, modal alterations, chromatic alterations and possibilities of the Neapolitan sixth chord, raised supertonic and subdominant seventh chord, secondary seventh chords, augmented fifth and diminished fifth chords, and augmented sixth chords. The course also includes an introduction to some parameters of twentieth century harmony. The course examines various techniques of analyzing form, texture, and style in music given to tonal structure, variation technique, and the process of periods. The study of compositions in the smaller and larger form.

Prerequisite: Pre-requisite: MUS 215.
Corequisite: MUS 226.