Category: assignments_musth4
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(musTh 212) Assignment 2 – Scale Formations
Due Wednesday, January 18: Two Parts: Complete the scale assignment sheet I handed out in class (or download a copy). You do not have to do question 5. Answer the questions from Kostka, pp. 33 – 38, Part B: 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7. Some excerpts may be a bit ambiguous as to scale…
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(musTh 212) Assignment 1 – Twilight of the Tonal System
Assignment for Friday, January 13: I. Read Kostka chapter 1. Take notes, as if you might have a reading quiz on Friday. II. Listen and look at pieces for the homework assignment. Read Burkhart’s comments and the translations. “In der Frühe,” by Hugo Wolf (Anthology, pp. 412 – 414) “Ruhe, meine Seele,” by Richard Strauss…
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(musth212) Babbitt Semi-Simple Variations Homework
For Friday, April 22nd: Complete the BabbittSemiSimple handout. It can be useful to refer to my posted lecture notes. I won’t be accepting late homework and red-do’s on this assignment, as I’ll be discussing it in class on Friday.
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(musth212) 12-tone Matrix Assignment
Due April 8th: Kostka, Ch. 10 Part A, #4: Analyze the given row for trichord pitch-class sets (give Normal and Prime forms); and construct a 12-tone matrix with the P(0) form of the row across the top. Part A, #5: Analyze the given row for tetrachord pitch-class sets (give Normal and Prime forms); and construct…
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(musth212) Pitch-Class Set Analysis, Webern
Due Wednesday, April 6th: Follow instructions on handout. Question 5 can be done for extra credit. PitchClassAnalysis.pdf
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(musth212) Atonal Interval Assignment
Due Monday, 3/28: Two-page, IntervalsAssign. Note the added exercise at the bottom of the second page. Use the updated Octave and Enharmonic Equivalence, Intervals post for help. Note that you will have to do some of the assignment of staff paper. It will help you if you combine your answers for questions IV/2, V/2, VI/1,…
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(musth212) Late Post: Rhythm/Meter Assignment
I never posted this assignment. If you haven’t turned it in, please do so by Monday, 3/28. Chapter 6 Part A: 4 and 5 Part B: 5 and 6 Remember, to find new tempos in tempo modulation excerpts you follow the formula: original_tempo * (original_grouping_number / new_grouping_number) = new_tempo The grouping numbers will be the…
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(musth212) Rhythm and Meter Listening/Score Study
For Friday (3/18), listen and study: Bartok, Bulgarian Rhythm (pp. 447 – 448) Bartok, Syncopation (pp. 449 – 450) Stravinsky, Rite of Spring excerpts (pp. 458 – 465) Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time (pp. 502 – 508) Carter, Canaries (pp. 509 – 511)
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(musTh212) 20th-century melody assignment
Due Friday, 2/24/11: Chapter 4, Part A: 2 and 3, and Part B, 1 and 2.
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(musTh212) Listening Assignment for Chords
from the Anthology: Charles Ives, “The Cage.” (pp. 435 – 436) (Naxos, 8.559269) Maurice Ravel, “Le Martin-Pêcheur (The Kingfisher),” from Histoires Naturelles (pp. 444 – 446) (Naxos, BCD9058) Both works are from 1906 (maybe). (The Debussy Sunken Cathedral is from 1910.)