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MUTH 261 - Polyphonies

FC CNDP PT
4 credits
Exploration of traditional and contemporary polyphonic musics, with a focus on techniques of combining independent voices. Repertoire is drawn from pretonal, tonal, post-tonal, and extra-canonical sources. Topics include imitative polyphonies, traditional drone polyphonies, ostinato polyphonies and polyrhythms, and post-tonal polyphonic techniques illustrated through 20th- and 21st-century choral works. (This course offers the Post-Tonal (PT) attribute)
Prerequisites & Notes: MUTH 132 Music Theory II.
Does this course require off campus field trips? No


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