MUS 310 - Advanced Topics in Harmony and Rhythm

In this semester-long course, students will examine and creatively apply select advanced topics in harmony and rhythm as observed in a wide range of music from the late 1800s to the present. Through a combination of readings, written exercises, listening, study of musical scores, and composition projects, students will build on their experience from MUS 210 and engage with topics including chromatic predominant chords and other expansions of the phrase model, modulations, cadential evasions, Neo-Riemannian transformations, chord modes, mixed and asymmetric meters, metric modulation, and symmetrical, progressive, and other large-scale tonal plans.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): MUS 205, MUS 210
Instructional Method: Lecture-laboratory
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).