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21M.301

Harmony and Counterpoint I

3-3-6 units. HASS-A · Undergraduate

Explores Western diatonic music through regular composition and analysis assignments. Engages a broad range of historical periods, traditions, and individuals. Topics include rhythm and meter, harmony and counterpoint within a single key, and a brief overview of form and modulation. Individual skills are addressed through a variety of approaches, including the required piano and sight singing labs. Local musicians perform final composition projects. Students should be proficient in reading Western staff notation in at least one clef and have experience with key signatures and scales. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 18 per section.

Spring 2005

In this subject we will study the basic harmonic, melodic, and formal practices of western music, principally the classical music of central Europe during the eighteenth century. Topics will include diatonic harmony, simple counterpoint in two parts, and tones of figuration. The coursework will combine composition, listening, analysis, and work in sight-singing and keyboard musicianship.

Readings

  • Aldwell, Edward, and Carl Schachter. Harmony and Voice Leading . 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2002. ISBN: 9780155062429. (Listed below as A+S.)
    Required
  • Various Composers. Five Centuries of Choral Music for Mixed Voices . Vol. 1. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1963.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapters 1 and 2, skip pp. 25-26.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapters 3 and 4.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 5.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 6.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 7.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 8.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 9.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 10.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 20.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 21, pp. 348-365.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 21, pp. 365-371.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapters 11 and 13.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 12.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 25.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 14.
    Required
  • A+S. Chapter 26, pp. 448-454 only “Modulatory Techniques.”
    Required
  • Aldwell, Edward, and Carl Schachter. Harmony and Voice Leading . 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2002. ISBN: 9780155062429.
    Required

Prerequisites & course information

Subject meets with 21M.541 Prereq: 21M.051 , 21M.151 , or permission of instructor U (Fall, Spring) 3-3-6 units. HASS-A

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