MUT 2116 - Music Theory III

College of Fine Arts and Humanities

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2006 (370)

Requisites

(Prerequisite MUT 1112 or
Permission of the Program) and
Pre- or Co-requisite MUT 2246

Course Description

This course is designed as a continuation of Music Theory II, with emphasis on expansion of the harmonic vocabulary. The student will learn how color is added to compositions with chromatic resources ranging from modulation to extended chords, modal mixture, and altered chords. Musical form and interpretation are also considered.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will demonstrate the ability to write and harmonize modulations to closely related keys by:
    1. determining beginning key and meter.
    2. identifying the subdominant and dominant keys of the beginning key and their relative minor keys.
    3. selecting one of the closely related keys as modulatory key.
    4. composing a melodic phrase establishing the tonality of the beginning key and using intervallic relationships indigenous to that key.
    5. composing an answering melodic phrase which establishes the tonality of the modulatory key and uses intervallic relationships of that key.
    6. writing all harmonic functions for original and modulatory keys.
    7. determining possible diatonic pivot chords.
    8. determining and selecting notes in the melody for pivot chord use.
    9. harmonizing first phrase, establishing the tonality of beginning key and leading to pivot chord.
    10. writing diatonic pivot chords and harmonizing answering phrases, establishing the tonality of that key.
    11. realizing figured bass exercises containing modulations.
  2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of foreign key modulations by:
    1. defining foreign keys.
    2. writing all common pivot chords used in foreign modulations.
    3. identifying common pivot chords.
    4. determining beginning and modulatory keys.
    5. determining type of pivot chord.
    6. analyzing harmonic functions of beginning and modulatory keys in musical excerpts.
  3. The student will demonstrate an understanding of chromatic harmony by:
    1. defining modal mixture.
    2. writing chromatic mediants and submediants.
    3. distinguishing Neapolitan sixth chords from augmented sixth chords.
    4. formulating extended chords with added sixths and ninths.
    5. deriving chords with altered fifths.
    6. analyzing music literature from the Romantic era.
  4. The student will demonstrate an understanding of musical form by:
    1. defining the compositional structures of popular and art songs.
    2. distinguishing between variation and rondo forms.
    3. relating parts of the musical composition to the whole.
    4. describing the basic sonata form.
    5. distinguishing the basic sonata form and the Romantic sonata form.
    6. distinguishing between sonatas, sonatinas, concertos and sonata-form movements.
    7. analyzing the structure of compositions from a variety of genres.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

Eff 20061(0370). Flexible Access July 2006. 3-Year Review 2009—Acceptable As Is
C&I Approval: 04/25/2006, BOT Approval: 06/20/2006, Effective Term: Fall 2006 (370)

Related Programs

  1. Music (MUSIC-TR) (670) (Active)
  2. Music Education (MUSICED-TR) (670) (Active)