Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to analyze a short passage of Classical or Romantic era piano repertoire for harmony and non-chord tones. This passage will incorporate secondary chromaticism and a common chord modulation to the dominant or mediant.
• Students will be able to realize a chromatic figured bass and analyze its figures for harmony (using Roman numerals). This figured bass may include triadic, seventh chord and single suspension figures in any inversion; it may use diatonic and secondary function chords.
• Students will be able to spell secondary function chords.
• Realize in three or four parts a figured bass that employs chromatic chords with a secondary function, with or without sevenths and in any bass position; and 2-3, 4-3, 7-6 and 9-8 suspensions, single or double.
• Harmonize in three or four parts a chorale tune using chromatic chords with a secondary function in modulating and non-modulating progressions.
• Compose music in three and four parts from Roman numerals, outer voices with Roman numerals, basses with Roman numerals, sopranos with Roman numerals and unfigured outer voices using chords with a secondary function and modulation.
• Compose parallel modulating, parallel non-modulating, contrasting modulating and contrasting non-modulating periods in unembellished SAB or SATB format.
• Compose a rounded binary in unembellished SAB or SATB format.
• Embellish SAB or SATB reductions in a classical style.
• Analyze a chromatic figured bass for harmony using Roman numerals and bass position symbols.
• Analyze, using Roman numerals and bass position figures, keyboard music employing secondary function chords, common chord modulations, phrase modulations, sequential modulations and non-chord tones
• Recognize, identify and diagram period, binary and ternary forms.
• Identify by ear themes and variations chosen at random from an assigned listening list.