Music Theory II

This course emphasizes diatonic harmony, including seventh chords, figured bass, and cadences. Students study voice leading, outer-voice framework, four-voice part writing, the choral, and dominant and non-dominant seventh chords are introduced. Students examine chromatic harmony, secondary functions, secondary dominants, secondary leading-tones chords, melody harmonization, modulation, binary, and ternary forms. Students focus on listening, analysis, and composition. The laboratory component of this course covers aural/visual development and proficiency skills to reinforce the concepts taught in music theory lectures.