(musth212) Final Exam Review, 2011

As promised, here’s an outline of what could be on the final exam, with links to posts where appropriate and available.

• chromatic mediant relationships
• scales and chords, including polychords
• polytonality (and pandiatonicism)
• rhythm and meter, especially complex meter, additive rhythms/meter, added rhythms, and isorhythms (from Messiaen)
• tempo modulation and polytempo
• intervals in atonal theory, including
  • pitch intervals (ordered and unordered)
  • pitch class intervals (ordered)
  • interval classes (unordered pitch intervals)
• interval inversion (atonal theory)
• pitch-class set analysis, including
  • Normal form
  • Transposition and Inversion
  • Prime Form and Set Class
  • Interval Vectors
• classic serialism, including
  • row forms
  • transpositions and properly labeling
  • derived rows and invariance, and Webern, Op. 21
• serialism after 1945 (serialism of other parameters than pitch, Babbitt, Semi-Simple Variations)
• chance music
• minimalism