View Descriptor

Descriptor List Export PDF

Descriptor Details

  • Descriptor Title
    Music Theory II
  • C-ID Number
    130
  • Units
    3.0
  • Hours
    0000
  • Date of Last Revision
    2/26/2025 12:09:10 PM PST

General Description

This course incorporates the concepts from Music Theory I. Through guided composition and analysis, the course will include fundamental two voice contrapuntal principles and chromatic chord functions and voice-leading.

Prerequisites

Music Theory I

Corequisites

No information provided

Advisories

Musicianship II and appropriate level keyboard course

Content

This course resides in a sequence, and elements of this course may appear in another course within the sequence.

Minimum topics:

  1. two-voice contrapuntal principles
  2. non-dominant 7th chords
  3. secondary/applied chords
  4. modulation (closely-related keys, foreign keys; Pivot [common chord] and alternate techniques)
  5. small forms: binary and ternary

Lab Activities

No information provided

Objectives

Objectives and Outcomes language based upon the above course content to be developed by individual programs within their local curriculum process.

Evaluation Methods

Written exercises, projects, and exams.

Textbooks

The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis, Clendinning, Marvin

Tonal Harmony, Kostka/Payne/Almen

Music in Theory and Practice, Benward/Saker

Theory for Today’s Musician, Turek

Harmony and Voice Leading, Aldwell/Schachter

Descriptor Administration

  • Public Review Needed
    No
  • Next Descriptor Review
    No information provided
  • Resubmission Requirements for Courses
    Descriptor changes were administrative only
  • Resubmission Deadline
    No information provided
  • Comments

    No information provided

  • Notes

    Revised 7/5/2017

  • Keywords

    No information provided

Back