(musTh 212) Final Exam Review

Terms and Topics to Review for the Final Exam:

• scales and chords
• chromatic mediant relationships
• polytonality and pandiatonicism
• rhythm and meter, especially complex meters
• intervals in atonal theory, including:
  • pitch (ordered and unordered)
  • pitch class (ordered and unordered)
  • interval classes
• pitch-class set analysis, (and here) including:
  • normal order
  • prime form
  • interval vector
• serialism and 12-tone composition, including:
  • row forms
  • combinatoriality (hexachordal)
  • derived rows
  • invariance
  • applying serialism to parameters other than pitch, like rhythm, texture, and dynamics (post-WWII)
• timbre and texture, acoustic, including how recent composers have expanded timbral resources for individual instruments and for ensembles.
• electronic music, particularly the difference between concrete music and synthesis
• chance music (indeterminacy), and how it may apply to a particular work or performance (performance, composition, or both)
• minimalism, including primary characteristics