(musTh 212) Listening/Reading Assignment: Classical Serialism

For class on Wednesday, 3/26/08:

• Read ch. 10 of the Kostka (“Classical Serialism”)
• Listen/Look at Webern’s “Wie bin ich froh”, pp. 482 – 484 of the Anthology. An mp3 recording (Wie bin ich froh.mp3) can be found in iLocker.
• Listen/Look at Schoenberg’s Op. 33a Piano Piece, starting on p. 430. This recording is available through the Naxos Music Library (8.553870)
• Write out matrices (all the row forms in a grid, like we talked about in class) for each piece. The prime form of the row for the Webern is given with the first twelve pitch classes of the vocal line. The Schoenberg row is given to you in the anthology. Remember, for our purposes P-0 is the prime form of the row transposed to pitch class C (0).