Jul 06, 2025  
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2024-2025

MUSC& 233: Music Theory 6

3 Cr
Quarters: S
This course introduces and explores various post-tonal theoretical concepts and demonstrates their analytical and compositional uses, borrowed chords, synthetic scales, octatonic scales, hexatonic scales, pentatonic scales, church modes, and tone-rows will be covered in depth. This course must be taken concurrently with MUSC& 223 Ear Training 6. This is the sixth in a series of six theory courses offered.  
Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC& 232   with a grade of C or better or permission of instructor and concurrent enrollment in MUSC& 223  .  
Recommended:                                   
Distribution for DTA: Humanities