Category: musicTheory4
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(musTh 212) Test 1 Review
Test 1 will be Wednesday, covering chapters 1 – 5. You can review my previous posts: Twilight of the Tonal System Integer Notation Scale Formations Chords and Verticalities Melody and Voice Leading Harmonic Progression and Tonality You should also review pieces we’ve covered in class. I will include some analysis of pieces that we have…
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(musTh 212) Chapter 4 and 5 homework
This assignment’s due date is already passed, but I could still use a few more of you to turn it in. Chapter 4, Part B, Numbers 1 and 2 (pp. 84 – 85) Chapter 5, Part B, Numbers, 1, 6, and 7 (pp. 100 – 101)
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(musTh 212) Harmonic Progression, Tonality, link to previous post
My chapter 5 review from last year still applies.
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(musTh 212) Melody and Voice Leading
Given the wide range and variety of post-tonal music, one cannot find any unified set of characteristics that define post-tonal melodies. Still, we can outline some usual, if sometimes contradictory characteristics: more disjunct than tonal melodies (less lyrical, less vocal, less flowing, more angular, more fragmented) wider pitch range unconventional rhythms (less regular than tonal…
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(musTh 212) Chapter 3 assignment: Chords and Verticalities
Due Friday, 2/3. The assignment uses questions and examples from the book. I’ve just compiled the questions on a handout for your convenience and mine. Just pay attention to the numbers on the handout. The assignment is Chapter 3, Part A, questions 1 and 4; and Part B, questions 2 – 5, and 7. AssignmentChapter3Chords
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(musTh 212) Chords and Verticalities, some old and some new
I covered most chord structures in this post from last year. Two things I didn’t cover were mixed-interval chords and whole-tone chords. We talked about whole-tone chords when we looked at scales in the last chapter. Dominant seventh chords with a lowered fifth (enharmonically equivalent to a French augmented sixth chord) and raised fifth are…
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teachingmusic rss feed routing to my facebook status
For my post-tonal (musth 212) and MaxMSP (mmp 242) students, I’m sending an rss feed of the blog to my facebook page. New posts should show up as status updates from me. Depending on what you check most often, these facebook status updates could be more convenient for you. You can friend me, or just…
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(musTh 212) Listening/Score Assignment, Scales
Listening and Score study for Wednesday, 1/18: Three scores and recordings are in my iLocker account at: http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED/212/scores01/ The three pieces are: Debussy – La cathedrale engloutie Bartok – Diminished Fifths Tower – Wild Purple (only the first page of the score is included) All the scores are in your Burkhart Anthology. Listen to each…
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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…