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Fall 2013 Music V2318 section 002
DIATONIC HARMONY/COUNTERPT-I

Call Number 20464
Day & Time
Location
TR 1:10pm-2:25pm
To be announced
Points 3
Approvals Required None
Type LECTURE
Course Description Prerequisites: MUSI V1002 or the equivalent. All students, without exception, who wish to take Diatonic must pass an entrance examination given on the first day of class in each section. For a detailed description of the Diatonic entrance exam, and advice on preparing for it, contact the Director of Undergraduate Theory Instruction. Corequisites: An ear-training class (MUSI V1312, V2314-V2315, V3316-V3317, or W4318-W4319). “Diatonic” is a two-semester course that constitutes the first year of the two-year sequence of courses in music theory required of all music majors and concentrators (the “main theory sequence,” of which the second year is MUSI V3321-V3322). Assigned readings, musical analysis, and compositional exercises, designed to teach the following: (1) analysis and composition of melodies; (2) strict (species) counterpoint in two voices; (3) the idiomatic use of all diatonic chords in major and minor keys, and tonicizations of secondary key areas; (4) principles of figured bass; (5) four-part writing; (6) harmonization of melodies, e.g., chorales; (7) basic principles of musical form. Each semester includes some work in tonal composition, e.g., minuets for piano modeled on examples by Haydn and Mozart.
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Department Music
Enrollment 9 students (25 max) as of 11:27PM Friday, May 24, 2013
Subject Music
Number V2318
Section 002
Division Interschool
Open To Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, School of Continuing Education, Barnard
Campus Morningside
Note REPORT TO FIRST CLASS FOR ENTRANCE TEST
Section key 20133MUSI2318V002

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