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Oct 31, 2025
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR (curriculum@chemeketa.edu)
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MUS 113 Music Theory 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 2
Credits: 3
Continues detailed exploration of Western European music practices, including music notation, terminology, analysis, and four-part writing. Introduces advanced musical practices including figured bass realization, harmonic progressions, modulation, cadences, transposition, and form. Emphasizes advanced terminology and compositional concepts.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher); and completion of MUS 112 within the year; or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Understand and use four-part writing rules
- Identify when four-part rules writing are broken
- Understand the structure of melody and melodic variations
- Describe the texture of a passage of music
- Identify and describe small forms.
- Identify and describe large scale forms.
Statewide General Education Outcomes:
- Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life and Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.
- Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.
Content Outline
- Four-Part Writing
- Rules
- Range
- Character
- Spacing
- Motion
- Overlap
- Confusion
- Resolutions
- Figured bass review
- Melody
- Phrases
- Periods
- Variations
- Harmonizing a melody
- Melodic Treatment
- Form
- Small Scale Forms
- Large Scale Forms
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