MUS 263 - Music Theory III

Credits: 3
A continuation of MUS 164 with further exploration of chromatic harmony and musical forms. Topics include modulation, chromatic harmonies, borrowed chords, music-text relationships in art song, binary, ternary, rondo, and sonata forms, and 18th-century contrapuntal forms such as canon and fugue. Emphasis is on analysis, writing about music, and application of analysis to performance.

Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MUS 164.