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Course Description: Welcome to Music 251B, a study of theorists and treatises from Rameau to Schenker. The course is partly an overview, partly a focused study of selected topics discussed in speculative and practical (compositional) treatises from the early 18th through the early 20th century. Possible topics include chord classification, chord "functionality" and progression, interaction of harmony and counterpoint, melody, form (rhetorical, syntactical), and the relationship between theory and contemporaneous aesthetics. Music 251B is partly an overview, partly a focused study of selected topics discussed in speculative and practical (compositional) treatises from the early 18th through the early 20th century. Possible topics include chord classification, chord "functionality" and progression, interaction of harmony and counterpoint, melody, form (rhetorical, syntactical), and the relationship between theory and contemporaneous aesthetics.
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