This course is a thorough study of music fundamentals including pitch notation, clefs, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, and rhythmic notation, with an introduction to a Biblical philosophy of music. Common-practice period writing is analyzed.
Aural training is included.
This course studies secondary dominants and diminished chords, augmented sixth chords, borrowed chords, and the Neapolitan. Aural training is included. This course studies modulations, extended chords, contemporary chord symbols, modal harmony, and 20th century harmonic techniques. Continuing development of writing and aural skills is stressed. This course surveys the historical development of Western art music from ancient civilizations through the Baroque era, within the framework of a Biblical world view.