classes for fall semester, 2009

This page acts primarily as a convenience. All of the links will take you to the Department of Musicianship and Music Theory website.

mmt 102-1 first-year musicianship

Eartraining, first semester. Diatonic solfège mostly in scale-degree numbers, rhythmic practice, dictation of intervals, simple harmonies, rhythms, melodies, and the like.

mmt 112-1 first-year music theory

The first semester of traditional theory, focusing mainly on diatonic harmony. The concentration is in writing harmonic progressions correctly and stylistically, together with analysis featuring the same harmonies covered in class. The semester includes a small amount of formal analysis—simple motives, cadences, and short phrases.

mmt 232-1/232-2 keyboard harmony

First of two semesters. Keyboard Harmony concentrates on transposition, harmonization, orchestral score-reading, and realizing figured bass.

mmt 252 advanced analysis

First of two semesters. Schenkerian analysis in a full, one-year course open to undergrads and graduates alike.