MUSC 001D - MUSIC THEORY IV

    Recent Professors
    Steven Gates, Jesse Wright-Fitzgerald
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2026, Spring 2025
    Class Size
    22 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    MUSC 001C
    Spring 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    Study of advanced chromaticism in common-practice harmony and an introduction to Impressionist and Post-Tonal techniques of the twentieth-century. Topics include: modal borrowing; Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords; enharmonic reinterpretation and chromatic modulation; sonata and rondo form, altered dominant and extended chords, contrapuntal techniques of late-Romanticism, pandiatonicism and modality; symmetrical scales; set theory; and advanced concepts of rhythm and meter. Total of 54 hours lecture.
    Usually Held
    Mon Wed 8:45am–10:10am, Tue Thu 4:30pm–5:55pm