Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MUS 324 — Tonal Counterpoint:

MUS department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• develop the appropriate skills required for each contrapuntal work
• write contrapuntal pieces such as 2-part and 3-part inventions; and
• develop the skills to write at least the Exposition section of a 3-voice or 4-voice fugue

Course contents

The art of combining vocal and/or instrumental parts with contrapuntal techniques employed from Bach through the Romantic composers, including imitation, canon, invertible counterpoint, augmentation and diminution. Writing of the fugue.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MUS 324.

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