Course Catalog 2024-2025
Music Theory
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Jared C. Hartt, David H. and Margaret W. Barker Professor of Music Theory; director
Brian Alegant, Professor of Music Theory
Christa G. Cole, Assistant Professor of Music Theory
David J. Falterman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Donald Samuel Gardner, Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Lauren Hodgson, Instructor of Eurhythmics
Tyler M. Howie, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Rebecca V. Leydon, Professor of Music Theory
Megan Kaes Long, Associate Professor of Music Theory
R. Joseph Lubben, Associate Professor of Music Theory
Jan M. Miyake, Professor of Music Theory
Bryan J. Parkhurst, Associate Professor of Music Theory
Andrew Y. Pau, Associate Professor of Music Theory
Eron F. Smith, Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Sylvie T. Tran, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Visit the music theory web page for more information on this division and its faculty and instructional staff.
Music Theory Courses
Placement tests are used to determine initial placement in aural skills courses and music theory courses. Some courses in the music theory division are consent courses; students obtain consent from the division’s administrative assistant (not the instructor).
Aural Skills Courses
All students who wish to elect a course in aural skills are required to take the aural skills placement test. Depending on the results, a student will begin with MUTH 101 , MUTH 102 , MUTH 201 , or MUTH 202 . A student who lacks an aural skills placement test score will be placed on a waiting list until their testing has been completed.
Music Theory Courses
All students who wish to elect a course in music theory are required to take the music theory placement test. This test determines whether a student will begin with MUTH 120 or MUTH 131 .
Divisional Policies
Advanced Placement Credit
The following score(s) will correspond to credit for the following course(s), fulfilling corresponding prerequisite requirements (if applicable) and counting toward total credits needed for graduation:
- AP Music Theory, 4 or 5 → MUTH 600 (one full course / four credits)
Note: Transfer credit received for MUTH 600 does not count toward the music theory minor. Scores on the AP examination do not qualify students for placement within the MUTH sequence.
ProgramsMinorCoursesMusic Theory- MUTH 020 - Learning to Read Music
- MUTH 031 - Music Theory Summer Jumpstart
- MUTH 101 - Aural Skills I
- MUTH 102 - Aural Skills II
- MUTH 110 - General Music Theory for Non-Majors
- MUTH 115 - Philosophical and Political Issues in Texted Music: Opera and Hip-Hop
- MUTH 120 - Introduction to Music Theory
- MUTH 131 - Music Theory I
- MUTH 132 - Music Theory II
- MUTH 150 - Music and the Mind
- MUTH 201 - Aural Skills III
- MUTH 202 - Aural Skills IV
- MUTH 210 - Eurhythmics
- MUTH 250 - Crafting Tonal Harmony
- MUTH 251 - Cycles
- MUTH 252 - Deciphering Orchestral Scores: Score Reading, Orchestration, Timbre, Organology
- MUTH 254 - Partimento and Figured-Bass Realization
- MUTH 255 - Topics in Nineteenth-Century Music
- MUTH 256 - Theory and Analysis of Post-2000 Pop Music
- MUTH 260 - Large Forms
- MUTH 260PT - Large Forms
- MUTH 261 - Polyphonies
- MUTH 261PT - Polyphonies
- MUTH 262 - Questioning Genius
- MUTH 262PT - Questioning Genius
- MUTH 263 - Scales, Sets, Series, Spectra
- MUTH 263PT - Scales, Sets, Series, Spectra
- MUTH 264 - Art Song from Franz Schubert to Margaret Bonds
- MUTH 264PT - Art Song from Franz Schubert to Margaret Bonds
- MUTH 265 - Music In Time
- MUTH 265PT - Music In Time
- MUTH 266 - East Asia in Western Art Music
- MUTH 266PT - East Asia in Western Art Music
- MUTH 267PT - Music and the Body
- MUTH 301 - Aural Skills V
- MUTH 316 - Tonality in Early Music
- MUTH 319 - Analyzing Renaissance Music
- MUTH 320 - Music Analysis as Literature
- MUTH 325 - Counterpoint
- MUTH 326 - Ravel
- MUTH 340 - Form and Analysis
- MUTH 342 - Rhythmic Theory
- MUTH 347 - Mathematical Approaches to Music Theory
- MUTH 360 - Musical Grooves
- MUTH 361 - The Visible in Music
- MUTH 362 - French Music from the Belle Époque, 1871 - 1900
- MUTH 370 - Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries
- MUTH 410 - Senior Project in Theory: Reading
- MUTH 411 - Senior Project in Theory: Thesis
- MUTH 415 - Analysis & Performance
- MUTH 448 - Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis
- MUTH 995F - Private Reading - Full
- MUTH 995H - Private Reading - Half
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