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Course Syllabus

MUSC 3540 Music Form and Analysis

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: MUSC 2120
  • Semesters Offered: Fall
  • Semester Approved: Summer 2019
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2025
  • End Semester: Spring 2025
  • Optimum Class Size: 12
  • Maximum Class Size: 20

Course Description

Music Form and Analysis is an upper level course designed to provide students with a comprehensive background in the major compositional styles and forms of art music during the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. The course is designed to aid students in the proper interpretation of musical lines and structures. An extensive focus will be placed on the study of musical scores and the development of aural skills in relation to these scores.

Justification

This course is required for a Bachelor of Music Degree.It combines theoretical principles of music that can be applied to standard performance practices. An understanding of these principles is necessary for all performing musicians, composers, and educators.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify musical forms through critical listening.
  2. Students will understand the relationships between art and popular music forms.
  3. Students will demonstrate an ability to write informed, critical analytical papers about musical form.
  4. Students will understand the evolution of Western musical form since 1650.

Course Content

1. Forms of Western Classical/Art Music from the Baroque through the Contemporary Periods.2. Forms in Jazz and American Popular Music.3. Development of Critical Listening Skills4. Development of Skills in Analytical Writing Skills in Music.