Northern State University

MUS 110 Basic Music Theory I MUS 111 Basic Music Theory II MUS 210 Advanced Music Theory I MUS 211 Advanced Music Theory II MUS 313 Form & Analysis

Concepts Addressed:

Compositional organization, such as pitch, including scale types and harmony; rhythm; texture; form; expressive elements, such as dynamics, articulation, tempo, and timbre; and basic aural skills: intervals, chords, scales, rhythms, melodies

Pitch concepts o Intervals (Identify in a printed score and by ear) o Chords (Identify by sight and sound. Write examples. Also identify parallel major or minor, relative major or minor, subdominant and dominant keys.) o Major and minor triads o Major, dominant, diminished, half-diminished seventh chords o German, French, Italian augmented sixth chords o Scales and scale types - pentatonic, octatonic, whole-tone, chromatic, harmonic minor, melodic minor, major o Modes - Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian (Identify modes and scales by ear and sight.) o Tonality o Harmony - intervals, chords, arpeggios, major, minor, diminished, blues progression (Write harmonies of figured bass.) o Harmonic analysis and harmonic progression (Write and identify chords, progressions and cadences.)

Rhythmic concepts, including meter and durational values o Accelerando, anacrusis, augmentation, diminution, hemiola, hocket, and syncopation (Write and identify examples. Describe differences in tempo.)

Rhythmic notation o Beaming, ties, dotted notes, double-dotted notes

Musical form and analysis o Large-scale form - binary, theme and variations, fugue o Smaller form structures - phrase structure, melodic motives, rhythmic motives (Identify musical themes, cadences and phrase structures.)

Formal organization of musical excerpts o Bar form, binary form, bridge, cadence, coda, contrasting double period, development, episode, exposition, extension, fugue, melodic sequence, motive, parallel double period, phrase, recapitulation, rondo, sonata form, strophic form, subject, ternary form, theme and variations, through-composed. (Identify relationships between two phrases, rhythmic transformations. Describe the development of sonata form in the eighteenth century.) Development of this review sheet was made possible by funding from the US Department of Education through South Dakota’s EveryTeacher Teacher Quality Enhancement grant.

Musical texture o Monophony o Polyphony o Homophony o Heterophony (Identify elements of texture and imitation in the texture.)

Expressive elements o Dynamics - Crescendo, decrescendo, marcato, ritardando o Articulation - Accent, legato, rubato, staccato o Tempo - Accelerando, adagio, andante, allegro, grave, largo, moderato, presto, rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, subito meno mosso, subito più mosso, vivace o Timbre (Identify types of articulation and tempo changes.)

Compositional devices o Augmentation, basso ostinato, bitonality, diminution, inversion, metric modulation, pedal point, polymeters, retrograde, sequence, serialism, variation (Identify compositional devices and the relationship between parts.)

Development of this review sheet was made possible by funding from the US Department of Education through South Dakota’s EveryTeacher Teacher Quality Enhancement grant.