Music Theory, B.Mus.

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US 150 First Year Success Seminar

All incoming new students will be registered for US 150 - First Year Success Seminar during the first semester of the first year. The credit earned for this course does not count toward the completion of the degree.

Required Credits: 139.5

First Year

Semester 1 (16.5 credits)

TH 111 - Diatonic Harmony 2 credit(s) ¹
TH 120P - Elementary Ear Training I 2 credit(s)
TH 475 - Music Theory Colloquium .5 credit(s)
APC 122 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ²
COM 110P - First Course Composition 3 credit(s)
HLM 020 - Information Literacy in the Performing Arts 0 credit(s)
WRT 110W - Academic Writing I 3 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
UIS - University Interdisciplinary Studies 3 credit(s)

Semester 2 (16.5 credits)

TH 112 - Chromatic Harmony 2 credit(s)
TH 121P - Elementary Ear Training II 2 credit(s)
TH 476 - Music Theory Colloquium .5 credit(s)
APC 123 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ²
COM 111P - First Course Composition 3 credit(s)
WRT 111W - Academic Writing II 3 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
UIS - University Interdisciplinary Studies 3 credit(s)

Second Year

Semester 1 (16.5 credits)

TH 210 - Tonal Form and Analysis 2 credit(s)
TH 220P - Intermediate Ear Training I 2 credit(s)
TH 475 - Music Theory Colloquium .5 credit(s)
APC 222 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ²
HLM 212 - Perspectives on Music History 3 credit(s)
GER 110 - Elementary German I 3 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
UIS - University Interdisciplinary Studies 3 credit(s)

Semester 2 (18.5 credits)

TH 211W - Post-Tonal Form and Analysis 2 credit(s)
TH 221P - Intermediate Ear Training II 2 credit(s)
TH 476 - Music Theory Colloquium .5 credit(s)
APC 223 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ²
CON 314 - Conducting Fundamentals 2 credit(s)
HLM 213 - Classicism to the Present 3 credit(s)
GER 111 - Elementary German II 3 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
UIS - University Interdisciplinary Studies 3 credit(s)

Third Year

Semester 1 (17.5 credits)

TH 330 - Keyboard Harmony 2 credit(s)
TH 475 - Music Theory Colloquium .5 credit(s)
COM 340 - Orchestration 3 credit(s)
COM 461 - Music Technology I 3 credit(s)
HLM 316 - Medieval through Baroque 3 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
Mathematics elective 3 credit(s)

Semester 2 (19 credits)

TH 331 - Keyboard Improvisation 1.5 credit(s)
TH 400 - Music Theory Pedagogy 3 credit(s)
TH 410 - Advanced Form and Analysis 3 credit(s)
TH 476 - Music Theory Colloquium .5 credit(s)
HLM - Music history elective 3 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
Music theory/comp./history elective 2 credit(s)
Music elective 3 credit(s)

Fourth Year

Semester 1 (17.5 credits)

TH 333 - Score Reading 2 credit(s)
TH 420 - Modal Counterpoint 3 credit(s)
TH 475 - Music Theory Colloquium .5 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
ES 262 - Introduction to Acoustics 3 credit(s)
Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
Music electives 6 credit(s)

Semester 2 (17.5 credits)

TH 421 - Tonal Counterpoint 3 credit(s)
TH 405 - Ear Training Pedagogy 3 credit(s)
TH 476 - Music Theory Colloquium .5 credit(s)
TH 485W - Senior Essay 2 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
Music electives 3 credit(s)
Academic elective 3 credit(s)

Note(s):

¹Enrollment dependent on placement exam.

²Exempted students take private instrumental/vocal study.

³Major choral or instrumental performing organization, eight semesters.

Undergraduate music theory majors must maintain an overall grade point average of B– (2.67) or higher in order to remain in the music theory program. Refer to the Hartt Undergraduate Handbook for further departmental grade requirements.