Category: musicTheory4
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Ordered Intervals, Interval Classes
Due 3/17/08: intervalAssign.pdf, in ilocker. For the solo violin line, indicate the ordered intervals below the staff, and the un-ordered interval classes above the staff. Remember that ordered intervals indicate direction with a + or – (the + is assumed if nothing is indicated), and count the total number of half steps between notes. Un-ordered…
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(musTh 212) Lecture Notes: Basic Concepts for Atonal Theory
These concepts are taken from Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory by Joseph Straus. Basic Concepts Octave Equivalence. Pitches separated by one or more octaves are regarded as equivalent. Pitch Class. Distinguishes between a specific pitch (a single note on a staff) and a pitch class (all the notes with the same letter name, in any octave).…
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(musTh 212) Listening and Reading Assignment
For Monday, 3/3/08: Primary Reading and Listening Read the portion of chapter discussing Tempo Modulation and Polytempo. Listen to Elliott Carter’s “Canaries” from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, pp. 509 – 511 of the Burkhart. (Online via NML, BCD9111) Through listening and score study, be able to intelligently discuss how tempo modulation provides organization to…
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Rhythm and Meter
Due Monday, 3/3/08: Kostka, pp. 137 – 138, Part B Numbers 5 and 6. Note: There is a very traditional rhythmic relationship between the two parts of number 5. Identify it. Note 2: For number 6, the top line of the first system, the chords have an internal relationship. Look for it and describe it.
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(musTh 212) Lecture Notes: Midterm Review
Some last minute tips heading into tomorrow’s midterm: The material will primarily come from chapters 2 – 6 (partial) of the Kostka. This includes scale formations, chords, melodic characteristics, harmony/voice leading/pitch-centric tonality, along with some rhythm and meter. In particular, study: Pitch class integer notation. Scales. Be able to write any of the modes (starting…
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Progression, Tonal Centers
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.
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(musTh) 212: Listening/Reading Assignment – Messiaen
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…
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(musTh212) Assignment:Melody Due Date Postponed
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.
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Melody (UPDATED)
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.
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(musTh212) Assignment: Tower's Wild Purple (UPDATED-2)
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…