Subject: Music
Credit units: 3
Offered: Term 2 only
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
College: Arts and Science
Department: School for the Arts

Introduces students to many of the theoretical musical materials explored by a variety of composers in the 20th Century. This includes the study of synthetic scales (ie.: octatonic, whole tone, etc.) chromatic polymodality, set theory analysis, ordered tone rows and serialism, twelve-tone matrixes and an exploration of a variety of new ways to organize musical parameters and their contemporary notation.

Prerequisite(s): MUS 233 (or 213).
Corequisite(s): MUS 221.
Note: Students with credit for MUS 214 may not take MUS 234 for credit.

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