MU201

Identify and describe various common forms of musical works from 1600-present.

Analyze various musical elements in a work: harmonies and harmonic motion, key structure, melodic components, 20th century harmonic and melodic structures, and other ideas that connect all these together in a single work.

Identify and describe the elements of 16th, 17th, and 18th century counterpoint.

Write short two-part pieces using the techniques of counterpoint from the 16th,17th, and 18th centuries.

Notate melodies in major and minor keys, in simple and compound meters, including accidentals that appear as neighbor tones or passing tones.

Sing melodies in major and minor keys, in simple and compound meters, including accidentals that appear as neighbor tones or passing tones.

Notate simple two-part passages or music.