| source Northwestern (X) |
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department MUS_THRY Music Theory Program (X) |
Renaissance Counterpoint: A practical course in writing counterpoint in the style of the vocal masterpieces of the sixteenth century. Models for emulation include the sacred works of Palestrina and Victoria, and the secular works of Rore, Willaert, and Marenzio. Students should have had the equivalent of one year of music theory.
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This course is an analytical study of classical-era music. We will develop a working knowledge of basic analytical techniques appropriate to analyzing and understanding the musical structures and compositional techniques that define the variety of formal strategies and types in 18th- and 19th-century music. Our study begins with an examination of the techniques of articulation, especially focusing on cadence types and phrase structure. Our study continues by considering the interaction between key structure and thematic design, including tonicization and modulation, key relationships, and motivic development. Our study ends by defining the most typical small and large forms and considering how individual pieces can be understood in relation to conventional formal expectations. What will emerge from the course is the notion of forms as dynamic processes rather than fixed products. Composers, performers and listeners use a repertoire of musical strategies to create and recreate form, making connections not only among and between the sound-materials within the specific composition, but also within the larger body of music that defines the stylistic tradition. Topics also include: binary, ternary, rondo, sonata, and concerto.
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The course explores how 18th-century musicians thought about 18th-century music. We will focus on models for musical phrases. The text is Music in the Galant Style (Oxford, 2007). Sutdents should have had the equivalent of two years of music theory.
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Late Symphonies of Mozart: The development of analytical tools in the areas of phrase rhythm (structure, expansion, connection), hypermeter, and structural harmony to facilitate learning and create a mental aural representation of a piece of music. Excerpts from the last six symphonies of Mozart will serve as models for analysis.
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This course surveys music that departs from the common-practice materials of functional tonality. The study begins in the late 19th century with Debussy, and continues through 21st-century styles as diverse as John Adams, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Lang, and Wolfgang Rihm. Students will develop basic techniques for handling atonal and post-tonal music, and explore the historical ideas of tonality and atonality.
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The class will develop an annotated English version of Erich von Hornbostels classic article, the Psychologie der Gehörerscheinungen (1926, pp. 701729 of Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie, mit Berücksichtigung der experimentellen Pharmakologie, Berlin, 1925 ). A reading knowledge of German will be helpful, but is not required. The instructor will create the basic English translation, and the class will work through the citations and concepts in order to reconstruct the state of the art in music cognition as summarized in the 1920s by an important scholar closely allied with Carl Stumpf and the Gestalt circle of Wertheimer, Koffka, and Köhler.
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Music & Emotion: TBA
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