Fall 2020
MUSC
525 | Blackboard | Grove/Oxford
| Harvard
Dictionary | JSTOR
| Naxos
| MathWorld
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O U R S E M O D U L E S
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1. | Basic
Concepts of Pitch & Interval (Ch. 1) |
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2. | Pitch-Class Sets (Ch. 2) | |
3. | Some Additional
Properties & Relationships (Ch. 3) |
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4. | Centricity
& Referential Pitch Collections (Ch. 5) |
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5. | Motive, Voice
Leading & Harmony (Ch. 4) |
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Basic
Concepts of Twelve-Tone Music (Ch. 6) |
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GROVE
BIOS |
This
course will be offered again during the Fall 2022 term.
To analyze music is to find a good way to hear it and to communicate that way of hearing it to other people....
– John Rahn, Basic Atonal Theory
Joseph N. Straus, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, 4th ed. (New York: Norton, 2016).
{Norton; Table of Contents; ISBN-13: 9780393938838; E-book: VitalSource}
Friedmann, Michael L. 1990. Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music. New Haven: Yale University 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: Princeton University Press. {Full text: JSTOR; GB}Cohn, Richard. 2012. Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}
Forte, Allen. 1973. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven: Yale University Press. {GB}
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. {Full text: JSTOR; GBd}
Rahn, John. 1980. Basic Atonal Theory. New York: Longman. {Gbd}Straus, Joseph N. 2016. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, 4th ed. New York: Norton. {GB}
Schuijer, Michiel. 2008. Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. {Full text: JSTOR; GB}
Tymoczko, Dmitri. 2011. A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}
ASC - Arnold Schoenberg Center; AFEA - Allen Forte Electronic Archive;
GB - Google Books; MTO - Music Theory Online
Reginald
Bain | University of South
Carolina | School
of Music
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