MUSC 307 - Music Form and Syntax

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SP, alternate years. A study of the most common ways composers set forth and work out musical ideas, including both the large-scale and local aspects of musical form. Students will make inquiry into the syntactical meaning of various musical cues and gestures and sample various means of presenting a formal analysis, using basic reductive techniques, outlines, diagrams, analogy, and oral description in their assignments, and projects. Prerequisite: MUSC 208 or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2017-2018.