Music Analysis & Style Composition 3

2.5 credits

This course continues the study of harmony and analysis, beginning with detailed examination of advanced chromaticism in tonal music and in-depth analysis of sonata form. Students will learn to write and identify various chromatic techniques, and develop strategies for analyzing, discussing, and writing about large-scale sonata form movements. The second half of the semester explores extended tonality and post-tonal experiments from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to weekly homework assignments, students will complete an analysis essay of a complete sonata form movement and a model composition in ternary form.