MUSC 212 - Second-Year Theory III

5 CR

Sixth in a six-quarter sequence in Music Theory for music majors and students who wish to acquire insight into the creation of innovative 20th & 21st-century music. Students learn modalism, 20th-century rhythmic concepts, free & serialized atonality, indeterminacy, collage music, pluralism, minimalism, ambient music, Musique concrète, timbral expansion of acoustic instruments & voices, and early electronic music.  Ear training, rhythm reading, and sight singing are also included.

Prerequisite(s): MUSC 211 or permission of instructor.

Course Outcomes

Students will creatively employ melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic technique of impressionist composers in an original composition.
Learn and creatively employ free atonal theoretical concepts.
Learn and analyze music created using the diverse compositional techniques defining serialized atonality, minimalism, pluralism, & collage music.
Learn and creatively employ 20th century rhythmic innovations.
Learn and analyze music representative of 20th/21st century timbral expansion (extended techniques, ambient music, Musique concrète, early electronic music and electro/acoustic music).
Learn and creatively employ indeterminate concepts in musical performance & composition.
Read syncopated musical notation in rhythmic tapping in asymmetrical meters.
Sight sing basic atonal melodic fragments within the student’s vocal range.
Recognize all diatonic modes, standard pentatonic scales, 6-note symmetrical scales by ear.

GenEd Outcomes: Creative and Critical Thinking

Aesthetic Awareness

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