Music Analysis & Style Composition 2

2.5 credits

This course in harmony, analysis and composition completes our study of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century tonal music. Students will explore the significance of tonicization and mixture as sources of chromaticism in tonal music and will examine the ways in which composers use these techniques to modulate from one local key to another in large-scale monotonal compositions. The first half of the term will explore advanced contrapuntal techniques and expressive chromaticism; the second half of the term will focus on sonata form and will culminate in an analysis project of an assigned sonata-form movement.