Due Monday, 2/18/12: Indicate the perceived additive groupings in Bartok’s Mikrokosmos, #133, “Syncopation.” On a copy of the score, write a triangle above the score for groupings of 3 eighth notes, and a square U for groupings of 2 eighth notes. If you encounter groupings of 4 eighth notes, treat it as 2 groups of [...]
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Bartok Syncopation
Posted 19 February 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: assignments_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
(musTh 212) Rhythm and Meter: Bartok, Additive Meter and Syncopation
Posted 19 February 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: lectureNotes_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
Friday we covered two Bartok Mikrokosmos pieces: No. 115, Bulgarian Rhythm; and No. 133, Syncopation. Additive Rhythm and Additive Meter (“Bulgarian Rhythm”) Bulgarian Rhythm is an example of additive meter. The 5/8 meter is expresses as both (3+2)/8 and (2+3)/8. Additive rhythm is related to some folk rhythmic practices (African drumming, for example), where there [...]
(musth 212) Listen/Look Assignment: Messiaen, Carter, and Ligeti
Posted 19 February 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: assignments_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
For Monday, 2/18/12: Finish reading chapter 6 in the textbook, including the section on polymeter and tempo modulation. Listen (with the score) to Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Liturgie de Cristal (pp. 544 – 550). (Quartet for the End of Time) Also listen to the Mov’t VI, Dance of the Furies of [...]
(musth 212) Reading, Listening, and Score Study Assignment – Rhythm
Posted 16 February 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: assignments_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
Continuing on from our testing extravaganza, I want to focus class time more on understanding theoretical concepts through the study of works. I’m trusting all of you can read the text and follow those examples. I hope that we can make class time a bit more interesting (and relevant) by focusing on understanding how concepts [...]
(musTh 212) Test 1 Review
Posted 13 February 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: lectureNotes_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
Test 1 will be Wednesday, covering chapters 1 – 5. You can review my previous posts: Twilight of the Tonal System Integer Notation Scale Formations Chords and Verticalities Melody and Voice Leading Harmonic Progression and Tonality You should also review pieces we’ve covered in class. I will include some analysis of pieces that we have [...]
(musTh 212) Chapter 4 and 5 homework
Posted 13 February 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: assignments_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
This assignment’s due date is already passed, but I could still use a few more of you to turn it in. Chapter 4, Part B, Numbers 1 and 2 (pp. 84 – 85) Chapter 5, Part B, Numbers, 1, 6, and 7 (pp. 100 – 101)
(musTh 212) Harmonic Progression, Tonality, link to previous post
Posted 13 February 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: lectureNotes_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
My chapter 5 review from last year still applies.
(musTh 212) Melody and Voice Leading
Posted 4 February 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: lectureNotes_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
Given the wide range and variety of post-tonal music, one cannot find any unified set of characteristics that define post-tonal melodies. Still, we can outline some usual, if sometimes contradictory characteristics: more disjunct than tonal melodies (less lyrical, less vocal, less flowing, more angular, more fragmented) wider pitch range unconventional rhythms (less regular than tonal [...]
(musTh 212) Chapter 3 assignment: Chords and Verticalities
Posted 31 January 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: assignments_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
Due Friday, 2/3. The assignment uses questions and examples from the book. I’ve just compiled the questions on a handout for your convenience and mine. Just pay attention to the numbers on the handout. The assignment is Chapter 3, Part A, questions 1 and 4; and Part B, questions 2 – 5, and 7. AssignmentChapter3Chords
(musTh 212) Chords and Verticalities, some old and some new
Posted 31 January 2012 by Keith KothmanTagged As: | Categories: lectureNotes_musth4, musicTheory4 | Leave a Comment
I covered most chord structures in this post from last year. Two things I didn’t cover were mixed-interval chords and whole-tone chords. We talked about whole-tone chords when we looked at scales in the last chapter. Dominant seventh chords with a lowered fifth (enharmonically equivalent to a French augmented sixth chord) and raised fifth are [...]
