Category: musicTheory3
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(musTh211) Assignment 15: Chromatic Embellishing Chords, 2
Due Wednesday, 10/31: Wkbk: p. 307 #4 A and B; p. 308 – 311 #6 B, D, and F
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(musTh211) Books to bring on 10/29
For class on 10/29 (Monday), bring: Workbook Textbook You can leave the Anthology at home for the day.
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(musTh211) Chromatic Embellishing Chords
Chromatic embellishing chords are by definition never essential harmonies. As described by Gauldin in Ch. 32, they usually function as passing or neighbor embellishments to other harmonies. Types Augmented Triads. Augmented triads usually supply a dominant function (primary or secondary). Gauldin says that you usually find augmented triads on V or I, but the I…
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(musTh211) Assignment 14: Chromatic Embellishing Chords
Due Monday, 10/29: Workbook, pp. 303 – 304. #1 all; #2 B, D, E, G, I check back later for lecture notes
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(musTh211) Sonata Form, continued
The main topic today was analyzing sonata forms that don’t present big sectional “billboards.” (PAC’s to end the first theme group, strong HC with a pause at the end of the transition, etc.) Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 2, No. 1, provides an excellent example of a piece without typically strong divisions in the exposition. Here’s…
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(musTh211) Assignment 13, Beethoven Op. 2, No. 1 and article
Due Friday, 10/12: Listen to the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 2, No. 1, read the Cadwallader and Gagné article, and answer questions on the assignment sheet. All of the above items are conveniently stashed in the BSU-SHARED folder of my iLocker account: http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED The files are named beethovenOp2-1.mp3 CadwallerBthvn.pdf HWbeethovenop2-1.doc The recording…
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(musTh211) Ch. 31, Single-Movement Sonata Form (Development and Recapitulation)
Continuing our discussion of Sonata Form… Development The development usually starts in the secondary key, but quickly moves to tonicize a number of other key areas. These tonicizations are usually brief. If the sonata is a Classical-era work, you can usually identify the start of the development as immediately after the interior repeat sign. Some…
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(musTh211) Assignment 12: Sonata Form Analysis
Due Wednesday, 10/10 Listen to, and answer questions on the Mozart Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 309, mvt. I. The music is in your workbook on p. 285. The recording is on the Gauldin CD-ROM (a copy is on reserve in MU 113), or you can download an mp3 from my iLocker account (http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED).…
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(musTh211) Ch. 31, Single-Movement Sonata Form (Overview and Exposition)
Leading up to the Midterm exam (the Monday after Fall Break, 10/22) we’ll be learning about extended formal designs. Our first topic is the single-movement sonata form. Sonata Form (single-movement sonata form) The sonata form represents an expansion of the tonal scheme and formal proportions of the two-reprise design, specifically the rounded, continuous two-reprise form.…