Category: musicTheory4

So, the piece is actually about ice skating — and Stravinsky’s Petroushka. From the Art of the States web  site: “Petroushskates was commissioned by the Da Capo Chamber Players and the New York State Council on the Arts to celebrate the group’s tenth anniversary at a concert sponsored by the Naumburg Foundation. In an attempt…

General Naming and Issues of Identification Some people avoid the word chords for non-tertian structures. For our purposes, we can use the terms chords, verticalities, and sonorities interchangeably. With all the chord types now possible, it can be difficult to properly identify the type, or construction, of any give chord. Musical context will be of…

Kostka categorizes scale formations according to the number of notes in the scale. For our purposes, you should keep track of the following (for each scale): The possibility of triads and seventh chords in the scale. What modes, if any, are possible with a given scale. How many transpositions of the scale are possible. For…

There’s an error in the first sample problem of the review sheet. To divide the octave equally with M2/d3 intervals, you need an extra measure. I’ve fixed it on the pdf. Test1Review.pdf (in iLocker) To check your answers, Test1ReviewSolved.pdf (in iLocker) Be sure to go over the review sheet, past homeworks, and lecture notes regarding…