| Form & Analysis Form & Analysis Sequence Form & Analysis 1 Form & Analysis 2 Form & Analysis 3 ________________________________________________________________________________ Form & Analysis Sequence In Form & Analysis 1, 2, and 3 the application of techniques and information studied in Harmony and Counterpoint 1–4 provides a deeper understanding of musical literature. The sequence looks at how content provokes and influences form, at how composers have altered and extended standard forms, and at what the cultural and strategic impulses for these changes may have been. Continuing on from Harmony & Counterpoint 4, Form & Analysis 1 studies sonata form and variation. Form & Analysis 2 focuses on canon and fugue and Form & Analysis 3 examines major currents in 20th-century music. ________________________________________________________________________________ Form & Analysis 1 MU317 Fall Semester 2008 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Harmony & Counterpoint 4 or placement Course Objectives The objectives specific to Form & Analysis 2 are the ability to understand and analyze the growth of sonata form and to write a short sonata-allegro and a set of variations in early Romantic style. Textbooks TBC SONATA/VARIATION ANTHOLOGY |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Form & Analysis 2 MU317 Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Harmony & Counterpoint 4 or placement Course Objectives The objectives specific to Form & Analysis 1 are the ability to analyze fugues of various stylistic periods and to write a simple fugue in 18th century style. These skills will be achieved through an understanding of and proficiency in applying the following: • construction and nature of fugal subjects • real and tonal answer • episode • modulating sequence • stretto • invertible counterpoint Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES David Ledbetter (Editor) Oxford University Press, 1990 ISBN: 9780193184336 THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER: BOOKS 1 AND 2 LATE STRING QUARTETS AND THE GROSSE FUGE |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Form & Analysis 3 MU417 (undergraduate registration) MU517 (graduate registration) Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Music History 5, and Form & Analysis 1 and 2, or placement Course Description An analytical exploration of 20th-century music through detailed study of seminal works, incorporating compositional exercises in specific styles. In addition to the two hour class meeting undergraduate students attend a one-hour weekly Study Group led by a Theory Department Teaching Assistant. Graduate students may choose to attend too, but it is not a requirement. Textbooks MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin Schirmer; 1st Edition, 1984 ISBN: 9780028729008 TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC: A HISTORY OF MUSICAL STYLE IN MODERN EUROPE AND AMERICA ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC QUATUOR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS SYMPHONY OP.21 |
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