MUSI 298 - Musicianship III

(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: MUSI 199. This course is the third of a four-part sequence devoted to the development of foundational musicianship skills. The goal of the Musicianship course sequence is for each student to be able to think critically and in detail about Western musical structures, and to communicate clearly and persuasively about them. This goal necessitates fluency or competence in musical notation, analysis, performance, and writing about music. Musicianship III focuses on increasing fluency and complexity in the skills and topics covered in Musicianship I and II. Musicianship III also focuses on gaining fluency in the recognition and analysis of large-scale formal structures in the Classical tradition-namely binary, ternary, rondo, and sonata forms; the recognition, performance, and analysis of chromatic, modulating, and sequential structures within the major/minor tonal system; and fluency with an expanding chordal and chromatic musical vocabulary. This course cannot be challenged.