Apr 24, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog (BETA) 
    

MUS 109 - Music Theory


Units: 2
Intensive course that introduces students to the inner workings of music of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, from diatonic harmony, part-writing, voice-leading, and harmonization techniques to chromatic harmony, tonicization and modulation and other advanced tonal and modal procedures.

Repeatability: Repeatable for credit up to 6 units.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate skill in diatonic and chromatic harmony, voiceleading and advanced tonal procedures.
  2. Read, write, analyze, and discuss music, with correct terminology and nomenclature.
  3. Discuss and evaluate music, from an aesthetic and technical point of view.
  4. Implement the principles and concepts studied in class via performance on their major instrument or voice, or in their compositional craft.




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