MUS 360 Harmony/Theory III
An examination of the various late eighteenth and nineteenth century compositional practices and techniques including borrowed chords, Neapolitan 6th chords, augmented 6th chords, extended tertian harmonies, altered dominants and their relationship to the style, form, and literature of the period.
Offered
Fall
Student Learning Outcomes
- You will have gained a familiarity with genres/forms of music common to the 17th and 18th centuries, i.e. Canon, Invention, Fugue, Theme and Variation, Sonata Allegro, and Rondo
- You will have learned to apply the analytical techniques learned in Harmony/Theory I and II to the genres/forms listed above,
- You will have learned new harmonies associated with the development of the genres/forms listed above, i.e. Borrowed harmonies; the Neopolitan Chord; and the Italian, French, and German Augmented 6th Chords