MUT 2117 - Music Theory IV

College of Fine Arts and Humanities

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

Requisites

(Prerequisite MUT 2116 or
Permission of the Program) and
Pre- or Co-requisite MUT 2247

Course Description

This course is designed as a continuation of Music Theory III, with a spotlight on twentieth century music. The student will learn about modes, scales, and sets. Set theory, serial composition, twelve-tone rows, and post tonal music are explored.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of early twentieth century compositional techniques by:
    1. analyzing mode and scale types in musical excerpts.
    2. diagramming sets and subsets found in musical excerpts.
    3. writing music with diatonic modes.
    4. writing consequent phrases or periods defining a second key.
    5. forming pentatonic scales.
    6. detecting whole-tone and octatonic scales in musical compositions.
    7. detecting formal design in musical compositions.
  2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of music analysis with sets by:
    1. listing the elements in a pitch-class set.
    2. solving pitch-class set transposition using mod12 arithmetic.
    3. listing pitch-class intervals.
    4. listing interval classes.
    5. discovering interval-class vectors found in musical excerpts.
    6. deriving the inversion of pitch sets and pitch-class sets.
  3. The student will demonstrate an understanding of serial composition by:
    1. distinguishing between sets and segments in serial music.
    2. relating prime segments to transposition, retrograde, inversion and retrograde inversion.
    3. examining twelve-tone rows.
    4. choosing row forms.
    5. hearing row relationships.
    6. composing music using twelve-tone rows.
  4. The student will demonstrate an understanding of twelve-tone techniques by:
    1. seeing relationships in extended compositions.
    2. detecting contrast in style between various compositions.
    3. constructing a row matrix.
    4. defining hexachordal combinatoriality.
    5. discovering combinatorial row pairs.
    6. evaluating serialism and compositional style.
  5. The student will demonstrate an understanding of contemporary rhythm, meter and form by:
    1. distinguishing between perceived and notated meter.
    2. identifying changing meter and polymeter.
    3. describing asymmetrical meter.
    4. discussing ametric music.
    5. identifying additive rhythm.
    6. discovering nontraditional rhythmic notation.
    7. detecting serialized durations.
    8. defining the Fibonacci series.
    9. analyzing metric modulation in contemporary music.

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)