Course Description
Analysis of form focusing on music from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will be required to write a short term paper analyzing an important work from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.
Athena Title
Form and Analysis
Prerequisite
MUSI 2100 and MUSI 2110
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to: 1. Identify motive, phrase, and period structures aurally and visually, 2. Identify and analyze binary and ternary forms, 3. Identify and analyze rondo forms, 4. Identify and analyze variation forms, 5. Identify and analyze sonata forms and variants, 6. Identify and analyze multimovement forms.
Topical Outline
1. Motive, phrase, and period structures 2. 17th and 18th century forms and procedures, including binary 3nd ternary types, 3. Variation forms, 4. Rondo forms, 5. Sonata form and variants, 6. Multimovement forms
Syllabus