(musTh212) Midterm Review – 2012

As promised, but a little late, here’s a compilation of links to review for the Midterm Exam.

Text: Chapters 1 – 6

Links:

• Twilight of the Tonal System
• Integer Notation
• Scale Formations
• Chords and Verticalities
• Melody and Voice Leading
• Harmonic Progression and Tonality
• Rhythm and Meter: Bartok, Additive Meter and Syncopation
• Rhythm and Meter in Post-Tonal Music
• Tempo Modulation and Polymeter
• Quartet for the End of Time, Mov’t I: Isorhythm
• Quartet for the End of Time, Mov’t VI: Added Values and Nonretrogradable Rhythms

You should also review pieces we’ve covered in class. I will include some analysis of pieces that we have talked about in class, which will assume that you know things like composer and piece title.

• Debussy, Sunken Cathedral
• Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
• Bartok, Mikrokosmos – Diminished Fifth
• Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
• Varese, Density 21.5
• Ives, The Cage
• Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet, Mov’t III
• Ligeti, Galamb Borong
• Carter, Canaries (from 8 Pieces for Four Timpani)
• Bartok, Mikrokosmos, Numbers 115 (Bulgarian Rhythm), 133 (Syncopation)
• Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time (Movements I and VI)