TEXTS:
The Elements of Music Vol. 1, 2nd ed., R. Turek
Music for Analysis, 3rd ed, Benjamin, et.al..
(Chapter #s and pages refer to Turek)
Week 1-4
- PROPERTIES OF SOUND
-Frequency, amplitude, timbre and the harmonic series
- FUNDAMENTALS Chapter 1&2 (pg. 1-39)
- History of Notation
- Pitch Notation
- Rhythm Notation
- Meter, Pulse and Beat
- SCALES, KEYS AND MODES Chapter 3 (pg. 54-79,Appendix 6, pg. 501)
- Major and minor scales, Modes
- Key signatures
- Scale degree names
- INTERVALS
- Interval numbers-cardinal/ordinal
- Consonance and dissonance
- Inversion and compound intervals
- COUNTERPOINT Chapter 11 (pg. 278-286)
- Species counterpoint
- Types of motion
- Basic linear/structural analysis
Week 5-7
- MELODY Chapter 10 (pg. 255-265) Chapter 12 (pg. 294-311)
- Contour, rhythm
- Structure (harmony, step progression,motive, etc)
- Organization (phrases, periods, sections)
- Cadences
- HARMONY I Chapter 4 (pg. 97-107)
- Triads
- Inversions
- Figured bass and Chord symbols
Week 8-11
- HARMONY II Chapter 5-6 (pg. 122-166)
- Harmonic analysis
- Cadences and nonharmonic tones
- Simple Harmonization
Week 9-15
- VOICE LEADING Chapter 7-9 (pg. 183-244)
- Common practice chorale harmonizations
- Voice ranges and tessitura
- Voice leading (counterpoint) principles
- TONALITY/FUNCTIONAL HARMONY
- Chord classification/function
- Harmonic rhythm
- Second inversion triads
- Harmonizations in four voices
TEXTS:
The Elements of Music, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. by Ralph Turek
Music for Analysis, 3rd ed. Benjamin, et. al.
(Chapter #s refer to Turek)
Weeks 1-4
- SEVENTH CHORDS Chapters 13&14 (pgs. 325-362)
- Dominant 7th chords
- iiv dim. 7th chords
- supertonic 7th chords
- other diatonic 7th chords
- MODULATION Chapter 16 (pgs. 404-418)
- Modulation vs. Tonicization
- Common chord,Chromatic and Enharmonic modulation
- Key relationships
- Harmonizing melodies that modulate
Weeks 5-7
- SECONDARY CHORDS Chapter 15 (pgs. 373-390)
- Dominants (V/V, V/ii, etc.)
- other secondary chords (vii/V, viio7/vi, etc.)
- BINARY FORM Chaper 18 (pgs. 449-455)
- Baroque suite
- Rounded Binary
Weeks 8-11
- ADDENDA: VARIATION TECHNIQUES AND FORMS
- Continous variations
- Passacaglia/Chaconne
- Sectional variations
- Theme and variations
- JAZZ AND POPULAR STYLES
- Modern Chord symbol usage
- Blues style/form with improvisation using blues scales
- Lead sheets and American popular songs
- Jazz styles
- Improvisation using modes
Weeks 12-
- ROUNDED BINARY AND TERNARY FORM Chapter 19 (pg. 460-469)
- Simple Ternary vs. Rounded Binary
- Compound Ternary
- Introduction to Sonata/Allegro Form
- TUNING SYSTEMS
- pre-equal temperament (Pythagorean, meantone, etc.)
- equal temperament and other current systems
- non-western and just tunings
TEXTS:
The Elements of Music, 2nd ed.,Vol. 2, Turek
Music for Analysis, 3rd ed.,Benjamin, et.al.
Examples for the Analysis of Musical Style, Ward
(Chapter #s refer to Turek)
Review Harmonic and melodic analysis, four part writing, tonicization, modulation, and harmonization.
Week 1-4
- 18th CENTURY COUNTERPOINT Chapter 1 (pg. 1-16)
- Stylistic qualities and historical development
- Two part counterpoint
- Imitative counterpoint (inventions, sinfonia, trio sonatas)
- FUGUE
- Subject/Answer
- Stretto
- Contrapuntal devices
Week 5-7
- 19th CENTURY ART SONG
- Text setting
- Accompaniment
- Song Cycles
- Song Forms
- 18TH CENTURY CLASSICAL STYLE Chapter 2, 4, 5
- Neopolitan chord
- introduction to augmented 6th chords
- Borrowed chords
- COMPOUND TERNARY FORM Chapter 7 (pg. 137-141)
Week 8-11
- SONATA/ALLEGRO Chapter 8 (pg. 144-159)
- History
- Early Sonata/Allegro
- Harmonic/formal aspects of S/A form
- Concerto
Week 12-15
- ENHARMONIC MODULATION Chaper 6 (pg.112-128)
- RONDO Chapter 9 (pg. 167-187)
- Ritornello/refrain
- Sonata-Rondo
TEXTS:
The Elements of Music, Vol. 2, 2nd ed., Turek
Music for Analysis, 3rd ed., Benjamin, et.al.
Anthology of Twentieth Century Music, Wennerstrom
Review: Altered chords (Neopolitan, Augmented sixth), enharmonic modulation, larger forms and genres.
(Chapter #s refer to Turek)
Week 1-4
- NINETEENTH CENTURY CHROMATICISM and EXTENDED TERTIAN SONORITIES Chapters 12-13 (pgs. 239-275)
- Parenthetical harmonies, vagrant harmonies
- Embellishing diminished 7th chords
- Altered Dominants
- 9th, 11th and 13th chords
- Use of extended tertian chords
Week 5-7
- INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR (SCHENKERIAN) ANALYSIS
- LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY STYLES Chapters 14-15 (pgs. 279-334)
- Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin, Mussorgsky
- Whole tone and synthetic scales
- Breakdown of tonality
Week 8-11
- 1910 TO THE PRESENT Chapters 16-19 (pgs. 335-)
- Early Twentienth Century
- Bartok and Stravinsky
- Nationalism and Neoclassicism
- Serial and Intervalic Music
- Atonality
- Schoenberg/Webern
- Set Theory/Hanson analysis
Week 12-
- 1950 to the Present
- Avant-Garde and Indeterminacy
- Experiments (Tuning/Techniques)
- Influence of Non-Western music
- Electronic
- Minimalism and reaction music
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