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MUSIC 221

MUSICA PRACTICA 3

3 credits.

Advanced strategies for composing, understanding, and writing about music.

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: MUSIC 122 and 172 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain several conventions of chromatic harmony such as modal mixture, modulating sequences, diminished-seventh chords, Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords, etc. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Produce written and oral analysis of short pieces, regarding surface and deeper-level structures. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine text settings and the relationship among poetry, phrasing, and form, considering some artistic developments of Romanticism. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Begin to apply some techniques of Neo-Riemannian theories (NRT) to nineteenth-century repertoire. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain several conventions of chromatic harmony such as modal mixture, modulating sequences, diminished-seventh chords, Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords, etc. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Produce written and oral analysis of short pieces, regarding surface and deeper-level structures. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine text settings and the relationship among poetry, phrasing, and form, considering some artistic developments of Romanticism. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Begin to apply some techniques of Neo-Riemannian theories (NRT) to nineteenth-century repertoire. Audience: Undergraduate

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