| 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 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 2009 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Harmony & Counterpoint 4 or placement Course Objectives The objectives specific to Form & Analysis 1 are the ability to understand, describe, analyze, and diagram sonata form in its many guises. The course begins with an overview of 'school' form in piano sonatas, then moves through works in chamber and orchestral media that display increasingly complex harmony and structure. The end goal is to give students a thorough foundation in understanding musical form and analysis. The course also considers the development of the Variation genre. Areas of Study will include:– • 'school' form • Haydn Piano Sonata No.59 • Mozart Piano Sonata, K.333 • Haydn Piano Sonata No.62 • Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.10 No.3 • Beethoven Symphony No.5 • Haydn String Quartet Op.76, No.2 • Mozart Piano Concerto, K.466 • Beethoven String Quartet Op.95 • Brahms Piano Quintet Op.34 • variations Textbooks TBC SONATA/VARIATION ANTHOLOGY available from the Music Division Office |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Form & Analysis 2 MU318 Spring Semester 2010 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 Spring Semester 2010 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 students attend a one-hour weekly Study Group led by a Theory Department Teaching Assistant. Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com 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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