The Music Theory - Foundational course introduces essential concepts to build a strong theoretical base, including:

• Reading and writing musical notation, key signatures, and symbols

• Identifying and constructing major, minor, and modal scales

• Understanding intervals, triads, and seventh chords

• Mastering rhythmic patterns, time signatures, and metre

• Analysing basic harmonic progressions and cadences in tonal music

The Music Theory - Intermediate course expands on foundational concepts, exploring:

• Advanced harmony, including secondary dominants, augmented sixths, and complex progressions

• Techniques for modulation and key changes, such as pivot chords and tonicization

• Writing and analyzing counterpoint in two-voice compositions

• Non-chord tones and advanced voice-leading techniques

• Introduction to 20th-century theory, covering atonality, extended harmonies, and serialism

• Analysis and composition in forms like binary, ternary, and sonata

The Music Theory - Advanced course delves into the most intricate aspects of music theory, focusing on:

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• Chromatic harmony, including borrowed chords, Neapolitan chords, and chromatic mediants

• Advanced modulation techniques, enharmonic shifts, and distant key relationships

• Analysis of large-scale forms such as fugues, sonata-allegro, and variations

• 20th- and 21st-century techniques like twelve-tone serialism, set theory, and minimalism

• Writing and analysing three- and four-part counterpoint and fugues

• Compositional techniques including motivic transformation and thematic development

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This course prepares students to master complex theoretical concepts and apply them in advanced music analysis and composition.