Music Theory, B.Mus.

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Required Credits: 137.5

First Year

Semester 1 (16.5 credits)

TH 111 - Diatonic Harmony 2 credit(s) ¹
TH 120 - Elementary Ear Training I 2 credit(s)
TH 475 - Music Theory Colloquium 0 credit(s)
APC 122 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ²
CMM 110 - Communication in the Digital Age 3 credit(s)
HLM 020 - Information Literacy in the Performing Arts 0 credit(s)
MUS 110 - Paranov Performance Hour 0.5 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
AUC - All-University Curriculum 3 credit(s)
RPW 110 - Rhetoric and Writing I 3 credit(s)

Semester 2 (16.5 credits)

TH 112 - Chromatic Harmony 2 credit(s)
TH 121 - Elementary Ear Training II 2 credit(s)
TH 476 - Music Theory Colloquium 0 credit(s)
APC 123 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ²
COM 111 - First Course Composition 3 credit(s)
MUS 111 - Paranov Performance Hour 0.5 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
AUC - All-University Curriculum 3 credit(s)
RPW 111 - Rhetoric and Writing II 3 credit(s)

Second Year

Semester 1 (16.5 credits)

TH 210 - Tonal Form and Analysis 2 credit(s)
TH 220 - Intermediate Ear Training I 2 credit(s)
TH 475 - Music Theory Colloquium 0 credit(s)
APC 222 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ²
HLM 212 - Perspectives on Music History 3 credit(s)
MUS 110 - Paranov Performance Hour 0.5 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
AUC - All-University Curriculum 3 credit(s)
GER 110 - Elementary German I 3 credit(s)

Semester 2 (18.5 credits)

TH 211 - Post-Tonal Form and Analysis 2 credit(s)
TH 221 - Intermediate Ear Training II 2 credit(s)
TH 476 - Music Theory Colloquium 0 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)
MUS 111 - Paranov Performance Hour 0.5 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
AUC - All-University Curriculum 3 credit(s)
GER 111 - Elementary German II 3 credit(s)

Third Year

Semester 1 (17 credits)

TH 330 - Keyboard Harmony 2 credit(s)
TH 475 - Music Theory Colloquium 0 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 (18.5 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 0 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 credits)

TH 333 - Score Reading 2 credit(s)
TH 420 - Modal Counterpoint 3 credit(s)
TH 475 - Music Theory Colloquium 0 credit(s)
Performing organization 1 credit(s) ³
ES 262 - Introduction to Musical and Architectural Acoustics 3 credit(s)
Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
Music electives 6 credit(s)

Semester 2 (17 credits)

TH 421 - Tonal Counterpoint 3 credit(s)
TH 405 - Ear Training Pedagogy 3 credit(s)
TH 476 - Music Theory Colloquium 0 credit(s)
TH 485 - 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.