MUST 04 - Music Theory IV

    Recent Professors
    Alexander W. Simon
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2026
    Class Size
    24 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    Take MUST-03; Minimum grade C,P;; Previously taken MUSA-27B is advised.
    Spring 2026 Sections
    View Spring 2026 sections of MUST 04
    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    <b><font color="7A0018">Begins Fall 2025</b></font><br> This course incorporates the concepts from Music Theory III. In addition, through writing and analysis, the course will include: post-Romantic techniques such as borrowed chords and modal mixture, chromatic mediants, Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords, altered chords, and dominants; and 20th/21st-century techniques such as Impressionism, tone rows, set theory, pandiatonicism, and polytonalism, meter and rhythm.
    Usually Held
    Tue Thu 9:20am–10:45am