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Music Theory @ USC

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Dr. Reginald Bain, Theory Area Coordinator, R227, (803) 777-8183, rbain@mozart.sc.edu

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NEWS

1. Summer 2008 Theory Courses
2. MGDE Theory Graduate Placement Examination
3. About our Undergraduate Theory Core Curriculum
4. Book Adoptions for 2008-09
5. The Theory Tutoring Lab is up an running. If you need a theory tutor, your theory instructor can put you in touch with one. If you did exceptionally well in your undergraduate theory or aural skills courses and would like to become a tutor, please contact Dr. Bain.
6. Welcome to Music Theory @ USC - A letter to all theory students from Theory Area Coordinator Dr. Reginald Bain.

LINKS FOR CURRENT STUDENTS

1. Theory Course Syllabi
2. Master Schedule of Courses
3. Academic Calendar and Final Exam Schedule
4. Assistance Program
5. Disability Services
6. Student Success Center
7. Honor Code

LINKS FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

1. SMT's Fundamentals of Music Theory: Selected Bibliography
2. AP Theory Credit
3. Academic Bulletins
   • Undergraduate
   • Graduate

LINKS FOR INSTRUCTORS

1. What Makes a Great Teacher
2. Instructor Responsibilities (pdf)
3. Spring 2008 Teaching Assignments (pdf)
4. MUSC 116 Web site
5. MUSC 115 Web site
   • Grading Guidelines (pdf)
6. Office of Academic Integrity
7. Classroom Disruption
8. Crisis Intervention
9. Counseling & Human Development Center

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DOCUMENTS FOR FACULTY

1. MUSC 215 Recommended K/P 5/e Workbook Exercises (pdf)

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BOOK ADOPTIONS FOR FALL 2008

Undergraduate Music Theory Core Sequence

Note: Second-year students will continue to use Tonal Harmony 5/e, whereas first-year students will use Tonal Harmony 6/e.

MUSC 115 and 116

Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne, Tonal Harmony: With An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music, 6th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2008).

Textbook: ISBN-10: 0073401358

Workbook: ISBN-10: 0077269969

 

MUSC 215 & 216

Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne, Tonal Harmony: With An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music, 5th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2004).

Textbook: ISBN-10: 0072852607

Workbook: ISBN-10: 0072918969

 

Aural Skills (MUSC 117, 118, 217 & 218)

Robert Ottman and Nancy Rogers,
Music for Sight Singing, 7th Edition (Prentice Hall, 2006).

ISBN-10: 0131872346

 

 

MUSC 114 Basic Skills for Understanding and Writing Music

Joseph N. Straus, Elements of Music, Second Edition (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008).

Textbook: ISBN-10: 0131584154

MUSC 523 Applications in Music Theory

Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne, Tonal Harmony: With An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music, 6th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2008).

Textbook: ISBN-10: 0073401358

Software: MacGAMUT

How to Register for MUSC 523 Applications in Music Theory (pdf)

MUSC 525 Post-Tonal Music Theory

Joseph N. Straus, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 2004).

Textbook: ISBN-10: 0131898906

 

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Image Credits

Temple of Music by Robert Flood (1574-1637).

Francesco Landini. Uncopyrighted 14th-century portrait; from the Squarcialupi Codex.

This Web site is maintained by Dr. Reginald Bain. Please feel free to send comments and suggestions to rbain@mozart.sc.edu.

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