MUSI 3360

This course will focus on chromatic harmony used in music from the late 18th through early 20th centuries, drawing mostly from the Western classical canon. Topics include: mode mixture, Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords, enharmonic modulation, plagal relations, common-tone chromatic chords, augmented triads, altered and extended dominants, chromatic sequences and omnibus progressions, equal divisions of the octave, neo-Riemannian transformations, ternary form, and art song. Students will learn the tools necessary to analyze music drawn from this repertoire and articulate their findings in their writing. Through regular quizzes, assignments, and projects, students will gain facility to compose music that models the idioms of the lieder and character pieces drawn from the chosen repertoire of study. Prerequisite(s): Music 2260