MUSI 231 - Music Theory III

3 Credit Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Laboratory Hours

A continuing study of Western music theory, utilizing the basic elements learned in MUSI 131, MUSI 132, for the purpose of providing music majors with further experience in the analysis and composition of music. The material covered will include a detailed study of voice leading using diatonic seventh chords, chromaticism and altered chords, secondary dominant chords and their functions, secondary leading- tone chords and their functions, modulation and tonicization, key relationships, binary forms, ternary forms, rounded binary forms and other formal designs.

Prerequisites: MUSI 131 and MUSI 132.