Fall 2024
MUSC 525 | Blackboard | Listening/Analysis
C O U R S E
M O D U L E S
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1. | Pitches,
Intervals & Motives (Ch. 1) |
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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. | Advanced Topics (Ch. 4) | |
Serialism (Ch. 6) | ||
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The
Final Exam will be posted on Mon., Dec. 9. The
Final Exam is due: Fri.,
Dec. 13, at 11:59 pm
The Composition Project (pdf) is due: Fri., Dec. 13, at 11:59 pm
Ch. 6
Basic Concepts of Twelve-Tone Music, pp.
294-338
See Blackboard
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
Joseph N. Straus, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, 4/e (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}
Forte, Allen. 1973. The Structure of Atonal Music. 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; Videos: JosephStraus.com}
______________ 2018. Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability. New York: Norton. {GB; Full text: EBSCOhost; Videos: JosephStraus.com; Oxford}
______________ 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 University Press. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}
Legend
AFEA - Allen Forte Electronic Archive (University of North
Texas)
ASC - Arnold
Schoenberg Center (Vienna)
ETS - Explore
the Score (Klavier-Festival Ruhr)
GB - Google Books
IRCAM
- Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (Paris)
MTO - Music Theory Online
Reginald Bain | University of South Carolina |
School
of Music
https://reginaldbain.com/vc/bain/musc525/