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Effective Term:
Fall 2024

Course Number:
MUS 113
Course Title:
Music Theory III
Credit Hours:
3
Lecture Hours:
30
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Continues the study of music components relevant to a variety of contemporary and historical styles such as chromatic chords, modes, and form. Includes key and mode changes and how they apply to songs and compositions. Recommended: concurrent enrollment in MUS 113C, MUS 193P and MUC 130C. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

  1. Identify and create musical examples that change key, pitch center, and/or mode.

  2. Compose progressions that include chords with secondary functions.

  3. Create chord progressions using secondary dominants and borrowed chords to harmonize melodies.

  4. Analyze individual sections of common contemporary song forms.

  5. Compose a melody and baseline that outlines a given chromatic chord progression.

Course Activities and Design

  • Improvise modal melodies

  • Improvise chord progressions using chromatic chords

  • Harmonic melodies using chromatic and diatonic chords

Outcome Assessment Strategies

The instructor should make the criteria for assigning a course grade and for evaluating student progress clear at the beginning of the term. The individual instructor will determine the methods of assessment. Assessment methods may include:

Qualitative examinations
Quantitative examinations
Homework assignments
Music presentations
Class participation
Composition projects
Small group work/problem solving
Concert reports

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

  • Tonality and modality

  • Borrowed chords

  • Secondary dominant function and tonicization 

  • Key areas and harmonic modulation

  • Form

    • Binary and ternary

    • Verse-Chorus

    • Strophic

    • 32-bar song form

    • Verse-refrain

  • More chord connection practices