Category: musicTheory4

I’ve heard that bookstores may be out of the Burkhart Anthology. It is available through Amazon and other online sellers, but be sure to get the 7th edition (from 2011). If you already have the previous edition (we used the one with the Postmodern update until this year), it will work. You will just need…

I’ve covered this before. http://teachingmusic.keithkothman.com/2008/01/musth212-lecture-notes-integer-notation/

Various things from chapter 1 of the Kostka, plus pitch-class/integer numbering. A lot of the terms in chapter 1 are self-explanatory. I’m only going to highlight some key concepts. Chromatic mediant relationships increase chromaticism in late tonal music, and they help in weakening circle-of-fifth progressions. Chromatic mediants will have two triads with roots a third apart,…

A review session for the final exam, open to all sections, will be Sunday, May 1, at 7:30. Room Mu 309.

As promised, here’s an outline of what could be on the final exam, with links to posts where appropriate and available. chromatic mediant relationships scales and chords, including polychords polytonality (and pandiatonicism) rhythm and meter, especially complex meter, additive rhythms/meter, added rhythms, and isorhythms (from Messiaen) tempo modulation and polytempo intervals in atonal theory, including…

Outlined in a post from a previous class.

I have a post from a previous class on chance music, also known as intedeterminancy, aleatoric music, or improvisation. Read it here.

I mentioned in class that Milton Babbitt was very interested in jazz, and that I think his piano music has a certain jazz feel. Here is a trio called The Bad Plus performing the Semi-Simple Variations in true jazz style, with dancers from the Mark Morris Dance Company.