Fall 2022
MUSC 525 | Blackboard | Listening/Analysis
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1. | Pitch & Interval (Ch. 1) | |
2. | Pitch-Class Sets (Ch. 2) | |
3. | Set Properties
& Relations (Ch. 3) |
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4. | Centricity
& Referential Collections (Ch. 5) |
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5. | Interval Cycles
& Triadic Post-Tonality (Ch. 4) |
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Serialism (Ch. 6) | |
Thanks for a great semester!
Twelve-tone composers share a premise – that interesting and expressive music can be written with reference to a precomposed ordering of the twelve pitch classes....
– Joseph N. Straus, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory
Joseph N. Straus, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, 4th ed.
New York: Norton, 2016: Table of Contents; E-book: VitalSource
Schuijer, Michiel. 2008. Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. {GB}Taruskin, Richard. 2010. Music in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}
______________. 2010. Music in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}
Babbitt, Milton. 2003. The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt, edited by Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski, Andrew Mead, and Joseph N. Straus. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. {GB}
Bain, Reginald. 2016. Scripting Web Apps for Music Theory using SVG & Web Audio API. Association for Technology in Music Instruction national conference paper presentation. {ATMI 2016}
Forte, Allen. 1973. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven: Yale University Press. {GB)
Hook, Julian. 2022. Exploring Musical Spaces: A Synthesis of Mathematical Approaches. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB; Oxford}
Lewin, David. 1987. Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations (GMIT). New Haven: Yale University Press. {GB}
Morris, Robert. 1987. Composition with Pitch Classes: A Theory of Compositional Design. New Haven: Yale University Press. {GBd}
Rahn, John. 1980. Basic Atonal Theory. New York: Longman. {Gbd}Straus, Joseph N. 2022. The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three Graphic Music Analyses. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB; Oxford; Companion Website}
______________ 2016. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, 4th ed. New York: Norton. {GB}
Tymoczko, Dmitri. 2011. A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice. New York: Oxford. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}
LEGEND:
AFEA - Allen Forte Electronic Archive
ASC
- Arnold Schoenberg Center
GB
- Google Books
MTO
- Music Theory Online
Reginald
Bain | University of South
Carolina | School
of Music
https://reginaldbain.com/vc/bain/musc525/