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A study of the basic concepts and skills of diatonic music: chords in major and minor keys, voice-leading, part-writing, harmonic progressions, introductory analysis, non-chord tones. Musicianship portion to include recognition of scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and rhythms, plus executing rhythms and sight-singing with solmization.

A survey of western art music from a listener’s point of view, the styles and composers of the various periods, and the relationship of music to the other arts and to its social and historical background.

This course will survey selected stage works of American musical theater and Broadway, from the early twentieth century to the approximate present. We will study these works alongside the historical circumstances during which they were written to see how the latter influenced the writing and reception of the former. Among the musicals to be studied are Show Boat, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, Cabaret, Company, Cats, and Rent. No musical experience is required for this course.