Instructor: Dr. Lynn Raley
Phone: X 1423
e-mail: raleyhl@millsaps.edu
Office: AC 161
Meeting times: MWF 11, Th 9
Location: AC 152

The primary goal of Music 3000 is to facilitate proficiency in the part writing and analysis of the "common practice" period, which stretches from the Baroque through late nineteenth century chromaticism. Your studies in Music 2000 and 2010 gave you the basic concepts underlying modal and tonal music. Music 3000 will expand you understanding of these concepts. giving you practical experience in their application to the music you most often perform and hear. The approach to harmony used in Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music (based on the work of Heinrich Schenker) stresses the way melodic aspects of music shape harmony. This approach helps strengthen the connection between your eye and ear and can even influence your performance decisions, for it will help you see and hear the long-range unfolding of tonal progressions over the course of an entire work or movement.

An equally important goal of Music 3000 is to achieve true fluency of hearing. Aural Skills work will be done primarily outside the structure of class time, using the MacGamut computer software program.