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MUSC 293  Theory and Analysis IIB  Units: 3.00  
Continuation of MUSC 292. A study of key formal structures in Western Art Music (classical music) of the 18th to 20th centuries through composition and analysis.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite MUSC 292/3.0. Exclusion Maximum of 6.0 units from: MUSC 291/6.0*; MUSC 292/3.0; MUSC 293/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Analyze and label a passage of music in terms of harmony, form, tonal context and harmonic function, and to parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
  2. Articulate, in words (text or verbal), what is observed about a particular passage of music and to create an individual interpretation of a passage of music, citing specific elements from the music. In particular, students will discuss how to integrate hearing and notational analysis on more ambiguous chromatic passages.
  3. Compose progressions "from scratch" based on common harmonic idioms
  4. Explain how analysis decisions might affect performance decisions.
  5. Identify which model of harmony and/or form most closely corresponds to a work, explain how the work does and does not conform to the given model, and speculate why a composer might have incorporated particular deviations.