Category: musicTheory4
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(musTh212) Chapter 2 Listening
For Wednesday, 2/9/11: Listen to and study the score (in Burkhart) for: Debussy, “La Cathédrale engloutie” from Préludes Book I, pp. 415–419 Bartok, “Diminished Fifth,” no. 101 from Mikrokosmos vol. IV, p. 151. Both works can be found on Naxos. Be able to comment on scale formations used in each, with possible modes and/or transpositions.…
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(musTh212) Audio Examples
Derek Johnson has assembled audio files to match all of the musical examples in the Kostka text. You can download the collection as a zip file: http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED/212/Kostka.M&T.MusicalExamples.ver.1.0.zip Having these, and listening to them will be very helpful as you read through the text.
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(musTh 212) Scale Formations
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…
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(musTh 212) Quiz 1 Review
Let’s pretend that somehow we’ll be able to function on Wednesday, and that we’ll have our quiz. Let’s recap the material we’ve covered so far. Chopin Prelude No. 4: non-functional voice harmonic progressions, chromatic voice-leading, and implied tonality. Chromatic Sequences: descending circle-of-fifths, ascending 5-6, and omnibus. Integer notation, transposition, and equal divisions of the octave.…
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(musTh 212) Assignment 4: Kostka Chapter 1
Due Friday, January 28: From the Kostka book, p. 15, Part A, numbers 1, 3, and 4 p. 18, Part B, number 3 (a – h) (Recording available on Naxos. Search for CRC2984. The written example starts around 25 seconds in.) You can write/type answers separately from the book and turn them in hard copy…
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(musTh 212) Assignment 3: Integer Notation and Transposition
Although this was assigned while I was gone, I’m posting it for the record. IntNotationAssign.pdf
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(musTh 212) Twilight of the Tonal System
Wrapping up notes from chapter one of the Kostka. Kostka audio examples in iLocker, here. As was pointed out in class, a lot of the terms are self explanatory. I’ll just limit this post to some highlights. Chromatic mediant relationships increase chromaticism in late tonal music, and they help in weakening circle-of-fifth progressions. Chromatic mediants…
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(musTh 212) Integer Notation
I’ve covered this before on the blog. http://teachingmusic.keithkothman.com/2008/01/musth212-lecture-notes-integer-notation/
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(musTh 212) Assignment 2: Chromatic Sequences
A little part-writing soothes the soul… Due Wednesday, Jan. 19. musth212assignment2
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(musTh 212) Chromatic Sequences
A summary of chromatic sequences taken from RF. Descending Circle-of-Fifths (The Fonte) If successive chords are all secondary dominants, then sequence is chromatic. Remember that the chordal seventh is a vertical dissonance, and must resolve down by step. The leading tone (third of the chord) is consonant. The LT gets lowered by chromatic half-step to…