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Due 2/25: Chapter 5, pp. 110 – 111. Part B, numbers 6 and 7. Be sure to address questions a – e on p. 110 for each example.

For Friday (2/21): Read Ch. 6 of the Kostka (“Developments in Rhythm”) Listen to TWO movements of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (one additional movement from what I said in class): Movement 1, “Liturgie de cristal (Crystal Liturgy), in the Burkhart starting on p. 503. Movement 6, “Danse de la Fureur, pour les…

The Melody Assignment due date is postponed until Wednesday. I want to talk about a couple more things that will help with completing the assignment. Do look over the assignment, and try to do as much as possible, because there will be another assignment added on Monday.

Due Monday, 2/18 Wednesday, 2/20: Listen to the remaining pieces on the syllabus for pertaining to chapters 4 and 5. (The Crawford String Quartet, etc…) From the Kostka, do pp. 93 – 94, Part B 1) a and b, with c as extra credit; and 2) a, b, c, and d.

For those of you who don’t have the “Postmodern Update” to the sixth ed. of the Anthology, here’s a scan of the page you need from the Anthology. (towerWildPurple-p1.pdf) Due Friday, 2/15: Analyze the first page (p. 569 in the Anthology) of Tower’s Wild Purple according to its use of octatonic scale collections. Bracket and…

Quiz over Kostka chapters 2 and 3 on Friday. (30 minutes) Review scale formations and verticalities. For Wednesday, read chapters 4 and 5 of the Kostka. Five pieces are listed in the syllabus. For Wednesday, listen (and follow the score) to: Tower (Wild Purple), pp. 569 – 571 Hindemith (Fuga Prima in C), pp. 490…

From Chapter 3 in the Kostka (due Wednesday): Part A, numbers 1 and 4. Part B, numbers 2 – 5. (In five, use the bass line to help with chord identification.)

Catching up, for those of you that still have turned this in (it was due 2/6)… Scale formations (Chapter 2 of the Kostka) assignment is in my ilocker account. http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED/212/scalesAssign.pdf

Due Monday (1/28): Complete the handout from class, or in iLocker here.