MUSI 136 - Music Theory II

(Spring Semester Only)

Emphasizes chord relationships and voice leading practices, continuing MUSI 135. Chord vocabulary expands to include dominant, half diminished, and fully diminished seventh chords and the voice leading practices and figured bass indications appropriate for these chords. An introduction to monophonic, polyphonic, chordal, and homophonic textural types and characteristics of each is included. Sight singing, ear training, and keyboard exercises are included. Prerequisite(s): C or better in MUSI 135.
(PCS 1.1, 4 credit hours - 4 hours lecture, 0 hours lab)