Terms & Concepts

1. Analytical approaches
2. Artistic Movements
   
• Les Apaches {WP}
  
• Beaux-Arts architecture {WP}
  
• Painting
  
• Impressionism {WP}
• Nabis {WP}
• Symbolism {WP}
  
3. Art song
• List of works by Debussy {WP}
• List of works by Ravel {WP}
• Mélodie {BA; WP}
  
4. Ballet
• Ballet Music by Debussy and Ravel
  
• Ballets Russes {WP}
• Sergei Diaghilev {WP}
• Théâtre des Champs-Elysées {WP}
  
5. Chord types
• Added-tone chord
• Added 6th (13th)
  
• Alternate-bass chord, or slash chord
• Chord symbols {OMT2}
• Extended tertian sonorities
• 9th, 11th and 13th
• Alterations
• Dominant ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chord
  
• Incomplete sonority, or omitted tones
  
• Open fifth
  
• Incomplete dominant seventh chord
  
• Non-tertian sonority
• Added tone
• Quartal sonority
• Quintal sonority
  
• Whole-tone chord
• Octatonic chord
  
• Pitch-class set theory {OMT2} (See also: Straus 2016)
• Polychord (Milhaud 1923)
• Split root, 3rd, 5th, 7th, etc.
• Symmetrical
• Augmented
• Diminished
  
• Tertian sonority
• Unresolved appoggiatura
• Diatonic
• Chromatic
6. 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}
  
7. Dualisms
• Accented/unaccented
• Chord tone/non-chord tone
• Consonance/dissonance
• Functional vs. non-functional progression
  
• Pulse/silence
• Major/minor
  
• Meter/hypermeter
• Scale tone/non-scale tone
• Tension/resolution
• Tonality/atonality; Tonality/centricity; Tonality/modality; Tonality/polytonality
8. Form & Proportion (Parks 1989 Ch. 9; Caplin 2013)
   
• Additive formal process (non-developmental form)
• Binary form
• Cyclic form
• Da capo
• Abbreviated da capo
  
• Dance forms {WP}
  
• Bolero, Czardas, Forlane, Habenera, Minuet, Pavane, Passacaglia, Rigaudon, etc.
• Fugue
• Fugue d’école (Fr.: ‘school fugue’) {Grove; Partimenti.org}
  
• Golden proportion (Howat 1986)
• Period {WP}
• Phrase {WP}
  
• Cadence
• Sub-phrase
  
• Sentence {WP}
  
• Sonata form (Hepokoski & Darcy 2011)
• Ternary form (A B A')
• Variations {WP}
  
9. Harmony (Laitz 2016)
• A6 vs. tritone substitutes (Biamonte 2008)
• Cadences:
• PAC, IAC & HC
• PC & DC
• Modal
• Plagal leading tone (Day-O'Connel 2009)
• Centricity
• Focal pc
  
• Chord types (see Chord Types, above)
• Collections (see Scale Theory, below)
• DIA, PENT, WT, OCT, HEX; ACO, MM, HM, etc.
  
• Contextual analysis: T, S & D
  
• Diatonic/chromatic
• Dual-tonic complex
• Extended tertian harmony
• Macroharmony (Tymoczko 2011)
• Tonal/modal progression (Turek 1995)
• Melodic vs. Harmonic tonality (Reti 1958)
• Modulation and collectional shift (Tymoczko 2011)
• Nonfunctional progression
• 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
• Unresolved appoggiatura
  
10. History
• 19th century
• Franco-Prussian War (1870)
  
• La belle époque {WP}
  
• Fin de siècle {WP}
• "The Banquet Years" (Shattuck 1968)
• World War I (1914-1918) (Watkins 2002)
• Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy (1920) {Buja 2021}
• Between WWI and WWI (Rogers 2022)
  
• ISMs: Romanticism, Impressionism, Modernism, Neoclassicism, Post-Impressionism
11. Jazz Influence
• Blues
• Ragtime
  
12. Melody
• Folk influence
• Fragmentation
• Motif/motive
• Reductive approaches
• Theme
• Principle/secondary
• Variation & Development
• Spanish Arabian folk melodies
  
• Statement and return
13. Number symbolism
• Musical cryptography {Grove} (Sams 2001)
• Numbers and Music {Grove} (Tatlow and Griffiths 2001)
  
• Fibonacci series {Grove} (Tatlow 2001)
14. Neo-Riemannian theory (Cohn 2012)
• Chromatic mediants (Kopp 2002)
• Dualist system
  
• Hexatonic cycles
• Parsimonious voice leading
• Common tones
• Stepwise proximity
  
• Octatonic cycles
15. Opera
• Opéra-Comique (Paris) {WP}
• DEBUSSY
• Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) {WP; Synopsis: Met}
• RAVEL
• L'heure espagnole (1911) {WP; Synopsis: Glyndebourne}
• L'enfant et les sortilèges (1925) {WP; Synopsis: Glyndebourne}
16. Painting influence
• Claude Monet
• 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}
17. Poetry/drama/literature influence
    
• Charles Dickens {WP}
• Edgar Allan Poe {WP; PF}
  
• The Philosophy of Composition (1846) {WP; eapoe.org}
  
• The Poetic Principle (1850) {WP; eapoe.org}
  
• Symbolist poets/playwrights {Oxford Companion}
• 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}
  
18. Post-tonal theory (Straus 2016)
19. Referential pitch collections (Straus 2016)
• Chromatic
  
• Diatonic (DIA), 7-35 (013568T)
  
• Pentatonic (PENT), 5-35 (02479)
  
• Symmetry under T_n:
• Whole-tone (WT), 6-35 (02468T)
  
• Octatonic (OCT), 8-28 (0134679T)
  
• Hexatonic (HEX), 6-20 (014589)
  
20. Rhythm
• Hypermeter {OMT2}
• Metrical dissonance (OMT2)
• Rhythmic timeline (Toussaint 2013)
21. Scale theory
    
• Chromatic {WP}
• Diatonic (DIA) {WP}
• Pentatonic (PENT) {WP; ASF} (Day-O'Connell 2009; Kopp 1997)
• Diatonic modes {WP}
• 1. Ionian, 2. Dorian, 3. Phrygian, 4. Lydian, 5. Mixolydian, 6. Aeolian, 7. Locrian
• Consecutive-semitone constraint (Tymoczko 1997)
• Locally diatonic scales
• 1. Diatonic (DIA) {WP; AScaleFinder}
  
• 2. Acoustic (AC) {WP; ASF}
  
• 3. Whole-tone (WT) {WP; ASF}; (Novak 2015)
• 4. Octatonic (OCT) {WP; ASF} (Forte 1991)
• Locally harmonic minor scales
• 5. Harmonic minor (HM) {WP; ASF}
  
• 6. Harmonic major {WP; ASF}
  
• 7. Hexatonic (HEX), or augmented {WP; ASF}
  
• Minor
• Natural
  
• Harmonic (HM)
  
• Melodic minor (MM), ascending
  
• Nondiatonic scales
  
• Pressing scales (Pressing 1978)
• Referential Pitch Collections (see above)
  
• Scale networks (Tymoczko 2004)
• Common-tone relations
• Transformations:
• T_n
• Collectional shift
22. Scale theory software
• Ricci Adams, Scale Calculator {MusicTheory.net}
• Ian Ring, Amazing Scale Finder {ASF}
23. Style analysis
• LaRue's SHMRG (LaRue 1970)
• Sound - Harmony - Melody - Ryhthm | Growth
• Text Influence
  
24. Voice leading
• Common-practice voice leading (Laitz 2016)
• Efficient voice leading (Tymoczko 2011)
• Parsimonious voice leading (see Neo-Riemannian Theory, above)
  
• Parallel harmony, or planing {DeVoto 2005; Lewin 1987)
• Plagal leading tone (Day-O'Connell 2009)

Software

Adams, Scale Calculator – https://www.musictheory.net/outdated/calculators/scale

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