Courses

There are 2 music theory courses and 4 music history courses:

• MUS 1277 Music Theory for Music Teachers I
• MUS 1377 Music Theory for Music Teachers II
• MUS 3377 Music History to 1600
• MUS 3477 Music History: 1600-1800
• MUS 3577 Music History: The 19th Century
• MUS 3677 Music History: The 20th Century

Each course is for 2 quarter credits or 1.33 semester credits and includes 20 hours of instruction time.

The courses are designed for those currently teaching music who do not hold degrees in music, or those who would like review courses in preparation for graduate study. We recommend taking these courses in order. You will receive college credit for each course completed.

The theory courses will prepare you to take the music theory portion of the national certification exam offered by MTNA. The music history courses will meet the music history credit requirement for MTNA certification.

MUS 1277 Music Theory for Music Teachers I

Objectives
The student will be able to:

1. Read and write standard music notation, including pitch and rhythmic notation, using all clefs and time signatures.
2. Write and identify key signatures in major, minor, dorian, phrygian, lydian, and mixolydian modes.
3. Determine key and mode (scale used) of given musical excerpt, which may include modes listed in #2, 3 forms of minor scales, plus whole tone, pentatonic, chromatic, and synthetic scales.
4. Give a correct meter for a given rhythm and identify it as a simple or compound; duple, triple, or irregular meter.
5. Write or identify any given interval, either up or down.
6. Write or identify any given triad or 7th chord.
7. Identify, in writing, all diatonic triads and 7th chords by function, quality & inversion in 4-part chorale or keyboard style.
8. Identify, in writing, nonharmonic tones of all kinds in any given musical composition.
9. Identify, in writing, any given cadence.
10. Realize a non-modulating, diatonic figured bass in 18th-century chorale style.
11. List all common harmonic progressions of the 17th- through 19th-century style.

MUS 1377 Music Theory for Music Teachers II
Objectives
The student will be able to:

1. Analyze and/or part-write a modulation.
2. Write and/or analyze chromatic chords, including secondary dominants and leading tones, borrowed chords, augmented triads, augmented 6th chords (Italian, German, and French), and Neapolitan 6th chords.
3. Analyze the form of any given musical composition, including the following formal structures: binary, rounded binary, ternary, song form with trio, rondo, variations (including passacaglia, chaconne, and basso ostinato), sonata-allegro, and fugue.
4. Analyze music of any style, discussing pertinent factors of texture, rhythm, melody, harmony, and form, using appropriate terminology.
5. Compose or analyze dodecaphonic music.

MUS 3377 Music History to 1600
Objectives:
The student will be able to:

1. Describe the parallel growth of Christianity and the compilation and development of notated music in the first millennium. Describe the quantities and attributes of the earliest secular poetry which was sung to notated melodies. Describe the compositional processes and procedures used at the beginning of the second millennium as well as the functions served by this music. Describe the national origins of the main innovations in music up to the 15th century and the interrelationships of European cultures that led to various styles of Medieval music. Give a summary of humanist philosophies of the Renaissance and describe their influence or application to the music of the period. Describe the interrelation between the northern countries and Italy in the 16th century and its effect on music. After being given a score, write an analysis of a renaissance composition which uses a cantus firmus. Enumerate the leading Renaissance composers and recount their main contributions or innovations. Discuss how specific innovations and shifting styles of the late Renaissance formed the groundwork for music of the Baroque period. Differentiate and categorize, through listening or by being given a score, the main types of Medieval and Renaissance composition.

MUS 3477 Music History: 1600-1800
Objectives:
The student will be able to:

1. Give a summary of the state of music and poetry in Italy by the end of the 16th century from which the startling experiments of the early Baroque were developed.
2. Describe the emergence of opera as well as the varieties of instrumental music and instrument manufacture that took place in this period.
3. Discuss, as a person living during this period might, the merits and faults of the national styles.
4. Discuss a comparison between Bach and Handel in relation to their objectives, musical output, and positions in society.
5. Make a general outline of the main types and quantities of production of Bach, Handel, Purcell, and Vivaldi.
6. Discuss how the revival of Classical philosophies and the changing political climate during the late 18th century affected the musical aesthetics of the time.
7. Discuss the state of the artistic, political, and social climate in Vienna during the 18th century.
8. Describe how the contrasting temperaments and ambitions of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven affected the creative processes of those composers and how they viewed themselves and were viewed by their contemporaries.
9. Analyze examples of music in the sonata-allegro, rondo, and theme and variation forms.
10. Display an intimate knowledge of the form, harmonic structure, and social background of several specific classical works of chamber music, opera, mass, and symphony.
11. Demonstrate an ability to discuss the overall output of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven in terms of genre and quantity.

MUS 3577 Music History: The 19th Century
Objectives:

1. Students will be able to describe:
2. General trends in Romantic thought and culture, including comparisons with preceding and subsequent style periods.
3. Materials and processes found in Romantic music.
4. Lives and works of major composers of the Romantic era.
5. Individual works within an historical context.

MUS 3677 Music History: The 20th Century
Objectives:
The student will be able to:

1. Identify major works, composers, and stylistic trends of the 20th century.
2. Analyze 20th-century musical examples in a stylistically appropriate way.
3. Identify given examples and find his or her own examples of music from various stylistic trends: (Impressionism, Expressionism, Neo-Classicism, Serialism, Minimalism, Socialist Realism, Aleatoric Music, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz, etc.) of the 20th century.

The cost of taking each course is $320. Upon registration and payment, you will receive a set of videotapes for the course as well as information about textbooks, assignments, and exams. These courses must be taken for credit and may not be audited.

The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association. In past years, St. Scholastica has been named one of the best regional universities in the nation's midsection by U.S. News and World Report.

To register, contact Mary Lee at mlee@css.edu or 1-800-447-5444 ext. 5985. Payment may be made by check or Visa or Mastercard.