21M.304 | Spring 2009 | Undergraduate

Writing in Tonal Forms II

Course Description

This course builds on the composition techniques practiced in 21M.303 Writing in Tonal Forms I. Students undertake further written and analytic exercises in tonal music, including a sonata-form movement for string quartet. Students will also have the opportunity to write short works that experiment with the expanded …
This course builds on the composition techniques practiced in 21M.303 Writing in Tonal Forms I. Students undertake further written and analytic exercises in tonal music, including a sonata-form movement for string quartet. Students will also have the opportunity to write short works that experiment with the expanded tonal techniques of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Musicianship laboratory is required.
Learning Resource Types
Lecture Videos
Projects with Examples
Music
Media Assignments with Examples
Painting of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sitting at a harpsichord.
This course studies Mozart’s string quartets, as well as the compositional process. (Painted by Saverio dalla Rosa in Verona, January 1770.)