This course is intended to help you become a better musician and reach your goals in music. The goal of analysis is to understand how and why a piece of music works, and therefore, how it might have been composed, performed, heard, or taught. The material is not to be merely learned, but mastered. It is not enough for a student to be able to figure out the answer for spelling a triad or recognizing a key signature. The information must be so totally engraved into the natural thinking grooves that responses are swift, sure, and automatic.
Some students never catch on that information computed from scratch each time is useless.
Unless spelling or recognition of these constantly recurring pitch relationships can be instantaneous, simple analysis and composition assignments will take so many hours that no connection will ever be noticed between musical events occurring just seconds apart. The procedures and schedule in this syllabus are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances. Us Search 410 Ouachita Street . Arkadelphia, AR 71998 . Phone 870.245.5000 .