Music 260 - Basic Music III Form & Analysis Western Michigan
Univ. David Loberg Code School of Music 2315 Dalton, x7-4683
Spring 2005 Email: firstname.lastname@example.org Office Hrs:
Tu-Th 9:00 or appt. The primary goal of this course is to
develop in you--the performer, the teacher--the critical tools
needed to understand a piece of music, create a meaningful
musical interpretation of that piece, and convey that
interpretation to your audience or students. This is the purpose
of music theory, and I mean it to be imminently practical and
intimately connected with what you do in the studio, in the
practice room, and on the stage. Music 260 is a continuation of
the Basic Music sequence, with an emphasis on the formal and
stylistic characteristics of whole pieces of music from the
Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods of Western art music.
In addition, we will continue the study of chromatic harmony and
voice leading begun in Mus 161. Activities may include
compositional projects in the style of particular g