Students develop ear training and sight singing skills. Students hear and write from dictation multi-phrase melodies and simple melodies that module various beats and more complicated triads. A continuation of MUSC 2030. Topics include late 19th century impressionism, the music of the 20th century, such as modes, pan triadic technique, quartal harmony, 20th century rhythm, polychords, pandiatonicism, serial, and 12-tone technique. Completion of MUSC 2030 and MUSC 2035.
Students work on ear training and develop sight singing skills.
Students hear and write from dictation melodies that modulate to six related keys and complex rhythms with simple and compound meters and sight sing melodies that modulate or with non-diatonic tones. First in a series of two courses on the history and literature of music from the Middle Ages to the present. Topics for the first semester include a review of the elements and materials of music, history, music literature, and culture of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, baroque era, and 18th century classicism. Second in a series of two courses on the history and literature of music from the Middle Ages to the present. Topics for the second semester include a review of the elements and materials of music, history, music literature, and culture of the romantic era to the present.