Important Dates for
Music Theory Students
MIDTERM EXAM: @ 12:30 PM on Friday,
April 25
FINAL EXAM: June 4 @ 11:00 AM
Course Information:
Days & Time: M, W
& F 12:30-1:55 PM (Music Building, Room # 111)
Instructor and Office Hours: The
instructor for Music 222 and 224 is Jim Scully. Click HERE for a link to
Jim's on-line calendar. Consult this resource to see when the
instructor is
available for office hours.
Additionally, the best way to contact the instructor is via email
(jscully@csub.edu) or by placing a call to his office phone (654.2511).
Instructional Support Technician:
James Dethlefson is an Instructional Support
Technician
in the Music Department and he holds regular lab hours in the CSUB
Music Lab every business
day.
He can be reached by phone at 654-2520 and via email at jdethlefson@csub.edu
Additionally his
personal schedule is posted on the web HERE.
Textbook Information:
The
Complete Musician by Steven G. Laitz
Materials
and Techniques of 20th Century Music (3rd edition) by Stefan Kostka
Techniques
of the Contemporary Composer by David Cope - excerpts of
this book will be available to students through the professor.
New Directions in Music - by David Cope - excerpts of
this book will be available to students through the professor.
Grading
Homework is worth 10% of your grade. Homework
will consist of workbook assignments and composition assignments.
Most of the workbook assignments will be examined during our lectures
and will be graded in terms of completeness and whether or not the
concept is understood.
Composition Assignments are
worth 20% of your grade.
The composition assignments will be
assigned throughout the quarter and will be graded in a more
traditional manner - correctness, musicality, conceptual understanding,
etc.
Quizzes are worth 20% of your grade. There will
be roughly 8 quizzes that will
cover the material covered throughout
the quarter. The quizzes will begin at 12:30 PM and end by 12:55
PM. There are no make-up opportunities for these quizzes and we
will not wait for students to arrive before beginning.
The Midterm Exam is worth 20%
of your final grade and will take place on April 25 @
12:30 PM.
The Final Exam is worth 30% of
your final grade and will take place on June 4 @ 11:00
AM.
Attendance at three
departmental music events is required of all students in Music
222. These can not be events you are personally involved with -
they have to be events you attend as a spectator.
Here is a link to the Departmental
Performance Calendar. Go to as many events as you can - go
see your peers it is a great learning experience.
Weekly
Topics
Week I: Laitz: Chapter 27
- Modal Mixture
Week II: Laitz:
Chapters 28 & 29 -
Expanding Modal Mixture: Chromatic Modulation and the Neapolitan Chord
Week III: Laitz: Chapter 30 - The Augmented Sixth
Chord
Week IV: Kostka: Chapters 1 & 2 -
The Twilight of the Tonal System & Twentieth-Century Scales
Week V: Kostka: Chapters 3 & 4 - The Vertical
and Horizontal Planes
Week VI: Kostka: Chapter 5 & 6 - Harmonic
Progression and Tonality & Developments in Rhythm
Week VII: Kostka: Chapters 8 & 9 - Imports
and Allusions & Nonserial Atonality
Week VIII: Kostka: Chapter 10 - Classical
Serialism
Week IX: Chapters 11 & 15 - Timbre and
Texture, Chance, Experimental Music, Minimalism and
Week X: HANDOUTS from SCULLY: Introduction
to Jazz Harmonies, scales and procedures
Syllabus
is subject to change