MUS 111, Music Theory II — Honors	William Wieland
With the approval of Dr. Wieland, you may contract MUS 111, Music Theory II, as an honors course. Benefits include a more stimulating course and credits toward an honors degree. Honors students take MUS 111, but meet the additional requirements listed below. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Wieland in the first week of spring semester. (We will schedule a weekly meeting outside of class.)
To earn honors credit, all honors students must take the following additional timed quizzes — Dominant Sevenths (given any tone) and Chord Recognition Speed Quiz (Practice: 1-3, 4-6, & 7-9); and take a jazz seventh chord quiz as well as write additional, more challenging cadences on the Cadence Writing Quiz.
Honors students complete a final project approved by the instructor. I encourage you to propose a project that would help you learn something new and challenge you as a musician and scholar. Possibilities include, but are by no means limited to, a recording of yourself performing and/or singing all parts of a polyphonic work, online learning materials for future music students, a summary of a scholarly music article, e.g. A corpus analysis of rock harmony by Trevor de Clercq and David Temperley or Fragile, Emergent, and Absent Tonics in Pop and Rock Songs by Mark Spicer, a written analysis of a composition, a study of Species Counterpoint (That is how I composed Contented Pacing 1 and Contented Pacing 2.), an original composition or arrangement for an existing ensemble (e.g. your former high school band, chorus, or orchestra), or a transcription of a piece which heretofore has no printed music. The last two must be performed.
Final Project Deadlines — I expect you to meet these deadlines without reminders from me. Proposal — due before February 1st Draft — due before March 2nd Draft — due before April Final Draft — due before 5:00 pm on the last day of class