View archived pages from previous iterations of the course.
- Fall 2018
- Week 2: Narrative
- Week 3: Timbre
- Week 4: Set theory and segmentation
- Week 5: Serialism
- Week 6: Webern, Variations for Piano, Op. 27 (Analysis Symposium #1)
- Week 7: Tonal rhythm
- Week 8: Sonata Theory
- Week 9: Franz Schubert, “Tragic” Symphony, Finale
- Week 10: Tonality in Pop Music
- Week 11: Analysis of lyrics
- Week 13: How to Write a Theory Paper
- Week 15: Writing a final paper
- Slack channel
- Summer 2019
- Start here
- Week 1 (Jun 3): Broadly Applicable Techniques
- Week 2 (Jun 10): Techniques for Atonal Music
- Week 3 (Jun 17): Analysis Symposium #1
- Week 4 (Jun 24): Techniques for Tonal Music
- Week 5 (Jul 1): Techniques for Pop Music
- Week 6 (Jul 8): Analysis Symposium #2
- Week 7: Writing a theory paper
- Final project
- Slack channel
