Galen DeGraf

Submediant/mediant harmony Period/sentence form Sequences Applied chords Modulation Binary/variations form Music and text Jazz harmony

All the stuff you'd expect to learn in MT3, i.e. functional chromatic harmony.

If they are interested in music theory, absolutely. 1 Columbia University: Arts & Sciences Fall 2022 Course: MUSIUN2318_001_2022_3-MUSICTHEORYI : MUSIUN2318_001_2022_3 - MUSIC THEORY I Instructor: Galen DeGraf

I learned more tools (concepts and techniques) for analyzing tonal music and post-tonal music. More importantly, we learned how to apply those tools in a critical way, understanding not only the different tools, but what effect they had in the music. We read and discussed research papers that were very elucidating and interesting.

Mediant and submediant chords, phrases, periods and sentences, tonicization and modulation.

I learned about modal mixture, ternary and sonata form, and about strategies for composition.

I learned a lot about music theory and refreshed previous knowledge.

Professor DeGraf is a very talented and special teacher. He is extremely intelligent, very knowledgeable, organized, and talented for translating difficult concepts for student, which is a rare combination. Apart from that, he is fair, kind and funny and a joy to have a teacher. The course in itself is very interesting and it really changes how one analyses and approaches music.

I would only recommend it if Professor Degraf were teaching the course.

Various music theory terms and concepts. These include: modal mixture, uses and voice leading configurations of the Neapolitan bII chord, Augmented 6th chords Italian, French and German, ternary rondo and sonata forms, and more. Furthermore, Galen did a wonderful job of teaching these concepts in such a way that even musicians less centered around classical music could adopt them for their own purposes. I plan to use the Neapolitan chord in my own compositional endeavors!