Category: assignments_musth4
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(musTh212) Chords/Verticalities Assignment
Due Wednesday, 2/16/11: From Chapter 3 Part A, numbers 1 and 4 Part B, numbers 2 – 5. (use the bass line to help you identify chords in number 5)
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(musTh212) Scale Assignment
Due Monday, 2/14/11: Complete the scale assignment sheet. (scalesAssign) Kostka, pp. 39 – 43, Part B 1, 2, 4, and 5
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(musTh212) Chapter 2 Listening
For Wednesday, 2/9/11: Listen to and study the score (in Burkhart) for: Debussy, “La Cathédrale engloutie” from Préludes Book I, pp. 415–419 Bartok, “Diminished Fifth,” no. 101 from Mikrokosmos vol. IV, p. 151. Both works can be found on Naxos. Be able to comment on scale formations used in each, with possible modes and/or transpositions.…
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(musTh 212) Assignment 4: Kostka Chapter 1
Due Friday, January 28: From the Kostka book, p. 15, Part A, numbers 1, 3, and 4 p. 18, Part B, number 3 (a – h) (Recording available on Naxos. Search for CRC2984. The written example starts around 25 seconds in.) You can write/type answers separately from the book and turn them in hard copy…
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(musTh 212) Assignment 3: Integer Notation and Transposition
Although this was assigned while I was gone, I’m posting it for the record. IntNotationAssign.pdf
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(musTh 212) Assignment 2: Chromatic Sequences
A little part-writing soothes the soul… Due Wednesday, Jan. 19. musth212assignment2
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(musth 212) Assignment 1: Chopin, Prelude 4 in E minor
Due Wednesday, 1/12: iLocker: musth212assignment1.pdf To facilitate discussion of this piece on Wednesday, you can email me your answers to parts 2 and 3, and either copy the harmonies to your anthology or make a copy of this sheet to keep. You can also scan your RN analysis and email it to me, but please…
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Sound Mass Analysis
Due Friday, April 18th: Listen to Ligeti’s Atmospheres (<Atmospheres.mp3>, in iLocker) and write a sectional analysis of the work. Use Kostka’s analysis of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima on p. 239 of the text as your model. List the section number, start time (based on the recording I provide), and a brief description of…
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Ionisation
Due Wednesday, April 16th. Using the YouTube video embedded below, listen to Varese’s Ionisation. Identify four (4) thematic elements (rhythmic cells) by the time on the video that they occur, and what instrument(s) is playing the element. Musically notate the rhythms for three (3) of the elements. Note, pay attention to the video editing. It…
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Postmodern analysis
Due Monday, April 14th: Listen to the following four pieces, all of which are in a folder titled “PostmodernListening” in my iLocker account. Desi, by Michael Daugherty Bug-Mudra, by Tod Machover Forbidden Fruit, by John Zorn Chamber Symphony – Roadrunner movement, by John Adams For each piece, identify any postmodern elements that you can hear.…