Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and label a passage of music in terms of harmony, form, tonal context, and harmonic function, in order to parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
2. Apply critical thinking skills to musical scores and recordings to select methods of meaningful engagement with this repertoire through a variety of analytical lenses - expressed through written, verbal, and performance means.
3. 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.
4. Combine skills in research, writing, and critical thought to pursue a project on a significant topic involving music from the 20th and/or 21st centuries.
5. Explain, in text, how analysis decisions might affect performance decisions and why.