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Description
This course focuses on part writing and figured-bass realization. Harmonic progressions and voice-leading are practiced through four-part (SATB) realizations of figured basses. Students will realize figured-bass lines at the piano and be introduced to common harmonic progressions. Harmonic vocabulary includes triads in root position, inversions, seventh chords, diatonic modulations, secondary dominants, mode mixture, augmented sixths, and the Neapolitan chord. Fundamentals of Species Counterpoint are introduced. Singing and harmonic dictation will develop and reinforce aural skills.
Prerequisite: Music Theory Level II-2
Course Sub-Category
Theory
Instructor
Stephen Savage
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