BAIN MUSC 726D
Debussy & Ravel
Terms & Concepts
- Analytical approaches
- Artistic Movements
- Les Apaches {WP}
- Beaux-Arts architecture {WP}
- Painting
- Impressionism {WP}
- Nabis {WP}
- Symbolism {WP}
- Art song
- List of works by Debussy {WP}
- List of works by Ravel {WP}
- Ballet
- Théâtre des Champs-Elysées {WP}
- Chord types
- Alternate-bass chord, or slash chord
- Extended tertian sonority
- Tertian extensions to the 9th, 11th and 13th
- See: Chord symbols (OMT2)
- Incomplete sonority (omitted tones)
- Non-tertian sonority
- Added tone
- Quartal sonority
- Whole-tone chord
- Pitch-class set theory (Straus
2016) {OMT2}
- Polychord (Milhaud 1923)
- Split root, 3rd, 5th, 7th, etc.
- Tertian sonority
- Unresolved appoggiatura
- Compositional influences
- French
- Hector Berlioz {WP}
- Ernest Chausson {WP}
- Emmanuel Chabrier {WP}
- Francois Couperin {WP}
- Gabriel Fauré {WP}
- César Frank {WP}
- André Gedalge {Oxford}
- Jean-Philippe Rameau {WP}
- Eric Satie {WP}
- Other
- Franz Liszt {WP}
- Modest Mussorgsky {WP}
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov {WP}
- Igor Stravinsky {WP}
- Richard Wagner {WP}
- See also: Post-WWII French Traditions
- Boulez {WP}
- Messiaen {WP}
- Spectralism: Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, etc. {WP}
- Dualisms
- Accented/unaccented
- Appogiatura/un-resolved appogiatura
- Chord tone/non-chord tone
- Consonance/dissonance
- Pulse/silence
- Major/minor
- Meter/hypermeter
- Scale tone/non-scale tone
- Tension/resolution
- Tonality/atonality; Tonality/centricity; Tonality/modality;
Tonality/polytonality
- Form & Proportion (Parks
1989 Ch. 9; Caplin 2013)
- Additive formal process (non-developmental form)
- Binary form
- Cyclic form
- Dance forms {WP}
- Bolero, Czardas, Forlane, Habenera, Minuet, Pavane,
Passacaglia, Rigaudon, etc.
- Fugue
- Golden proportion (Howat 1986)
- Period {WP}
- Phrase {WP}
- Sentence {WP}
- Sonata form (Hepokoski &
Darcy 2011)
- Ternary form (A B A')
- Variations {WP}
- Harmony (Laitz 2016)
- A6 vs. tritone substitutes (Biamonte
2008)
- Cadences:
- PAC, IAC & HC
- PC & DC
- Modal
- Plagal leading tone (Day-O'Connel
2009)
- Chord types (see above)
- Collections (see below)
- Contextual analysis: T, S & D
- Diatonic/chromatic
- Dual-tonic complex
- Extended tertian harmony
- Macroharmony (Tymoczko 2011)
- Tonal/modal progression (Turek
1995)
- Functional vs. non-functional
- Melodic vs. Harmonic tonality (Reti
1958)
- Modulation and collectional shift (Tymoczko 2011)
- Pandiatonicism (Day-O'Connell 2007)
- Pantonality (Reti 1958)
- Parallel harmony (DeVoto 2005
& Lewin 1987)
- Pentatonicism (Day-O'Connel
2009)
- Polytonality (Milhaud 1923)
- Reduced tonality (DeVoto 2004)
- Roman numeral analysis
- Tonal Ambiguity
- Tonicization
- History
- La belle époque {WP}
- Fin de siècle {WP}
- Romanticism, Impressionism, Modernism, Neoclassicism,
Post-Impressionism
World War I (1914-1918)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870)
- "The Banquet Years" (Shattuck 1968)
- Jazz Influence
- Melody
- Folk influence
- Fragmentation
- Motif/motive
- Reductive approaches
- Theme
- Variation & Development
- Statement and return
- Number symbolism
- Musical cryptography {Grove}
(Sams 2001)
- Numbers and Music {Grove}
(Tatlow and Griffiths 2001)
- Fibonacci series {Grove}
(Tatlow 2001)
- Neo-Riemannian theory (Cohn 2012)
- Chromatic mediants (Kopp 2002)
- Dualist system
- Hexatonic cycles
- Parsimonious voice leading
- Opera
- Opéra-Comique (Paris) {WP}
- DEBUSSY
- Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) {WP;
Synopsis: Met}
- RAVEL
- Painting influence
- Impression Sunrise (1872) {WP}
- Wild Poppies (1873) {Google
Art}
- Impressionism {WP}
- Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille
Pissaro, Alfred Sisley, etc.
- Impressionism in music {WP}
- Other:
- Diego Velázquez {WP}
- Antoine Watteau {WP}
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler {WP}
- Poetry/drama/literature influence
- Charles Dickens {WP}
- Edgar Allan Poe {WP;
PF}
- Charles Baudelaire {WP;
PF}
- Pierre Louÿs {WP}
- Maurice Maeterlinck {WP}
- Stéphane Mallarmé {WP;
PF}
- Gabriel Mourey {WP}
- Henri de Régnier {WP}
- Arthur Rimbaud {WP;
PF}
- Paul Verlaine {WP;
PF}
- Post-tonal theory (Straus 2016)
- Referential pitch collections (Straus
2016)
- Chromatic
- Diatonic (DIA) - 7-35 (013568T)
- Pentatoniic (PENT) - 5-35 (02479)
- Symmetry under Tn:
- Whole-tone (WT), 6-35 (02468T)
- Octatonic (OCT), 8-28 (0134679T)
- Hexatonic (HEX), 6-20 (014589)
- Rhythm
- Hypermeter {OMT2}
- Metrical dissonance (OMT2)
- Rhythmic timeline (Toussaint
2013)
- Scale theory
See also: Scale Calculator {MusicTheory.net}
- Chromatic {WP}
- Diatonic (DIA)
- Pentatonic (PENT) {WP;
ASF}
(Day-O'Connell 2009; Kopp 1997)
- Diatonic modes {WP}
- Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian,
Locrian
- See also: Referential pitch collections
- Consecutive-semitone constraint (Tymoczko 1997)
- Locally diatonic scales
- 1. Diatonic {WP;
ASF}
- 2. Acoustic {WP;
ASF}
- 3. Whole-tone {WP;
ASF};
(Novak 2015)
- 4. Octatonic {WP;
ASF}
(Forte 1991)
- Locally harmonic minor scales
- 5. Harmonic minor {WP;
ASF}
- 6. Harmonic major {WP;
ASF}
- 7. Hexatonic, or augmented {WP;
ASF}
- Pressing scales (Pressing 1978)
- Scale networks (Tymoczko 2004)
- Common-tone relations
- Transformations:
- Style analysis
- LaRue's SHMRG (LaRue 1970)
- Sound - Harmony - Melody
- Ryhthm - Growth
- Voice leading
- Common-practice voice leading (Laitz
2016)
- Efficient voice leading (Tymoczko
2011)
- Parsimonious voice leading (Cohn
2012)
- Parallel harmony, or planing {DeVoto
2005; Lewin 1987)
- Plagal leading tone (Day-O'Connell 2009)
Link
Ian Ring, Amazing Scale Finder (ASF) – https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/finder/
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
For references,
see: BAIN
MUSC 726 Bibliography
Britannica Academic (BA) – https://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate
Grove Music Online (Grove) – http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com
{Grove}
The Harvard Dictionary of Music,
4th ed. (HD), edited
by Don Randel. {HD}
Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org