WEEK | TOPICS |
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1st Week | Introduction to the ninth chords. |
2nd Week | Use of ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords. |
3rd Week | Diminished chords with common tones. Color changes produced by a variety of chord progressions. Use of tonal harmony in the late romantic period. |
4th Week | Relationship between harmony and counterpoint. Extended tonality. |
5th Week | Introduction to twentieth century music: Impressionism and applied harmonic concepts. Analysis of selected works from the literature. |
6th Week | Midterm exam. |
7th Week | Diatonic church modes. Pentatonic scales. Synthetic scales. |
8th Week | Extended triadic harmony. Polyharmony. Quartal and secundal harmony. |
9th Week | Parallelism and planning. Pandiatonism. Use of block chords. |
10th Week | Atonal theory. Realization of basses and melodies. |
11th Week | Midterm exam. |
12th Week | 12-tone serialism. Tonal serialism. |
13th Week | Alleotoric or chance music. |
14th Week | Extended instrumental usages. |