| Fall Term 2020 TOP:TONALITY AFTER COMM PRACTI - 5915 - MUTH 550 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: MUTH 301 Catalog Description : Advanced studies in music analysis, such as Schenkerian analysis, late 19th-century chromaticism, and analysis and performance. Topics vary from year to year. Course may be repeated with consent of instructor. Topic for Fall 2020: Tonality After the Common Practice In this course, students will investigate tonal systems in the twentieth century and the works that use them. The course will study composers’ harmonic languages, critically examine tonal theories historically applied to this repertoire, and introduce new ideas about harmonic function and tonal organization. Students will question their understanding of tonality and rethink what it means for a piece of music to be “tonal.” Attributes: Music Course, GER Fine Arts Div, 400-599 Advanced Course
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