The Final Exam is comprehensive. You should review posts from the semester.
- Twilight of the Tonal System (chromatic and doubly chromatic mediants, etc., concepts from Chapter 1)
- Integer Notation
- Scale Formations
- Chords and Verticalities
- Melody and Voice Leading
- Harmonic Progression
- Rhythm and Meter (Bartok, Syncopation and Additive Meter)
- Rhythm and Meter in Post Tonal Music
- Tempo Modulation and Polytempo
- Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time (Mov’t 1, Isorhythm)
- Messiaen, Quartet (Mov’t 6, additive rhythms, non-retrogradable rhythms)
- Atonal Intervals
- Pitch-Class Sets, normal form
- Pitch-Class Sets, transposition and inversion
- Set Classes, prime forms
- Classical Serialism
- Texture and Timbre, from Chapter 11 in book, particularly sound mass, new timbral resources
- Chance Music
- Minimalism
- Electronic Music
All pieces that we covered in class are fair game for questions of analysis and identification.
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