View archived pages from previous iterations of the course.
- Summer 2020
- Week 1 (Jun 1): Broadly Applicable Techniques
- Week 2 (Jun 8): Techniques for Atonal Music
- Week 3 (Jun 15): Analysis Symposium #1
- Week 4 (Jun 22): Techniques for Tonal Music
- Week 5 (Jun 29): Techniques for Pop Music
- Week 6 (Jul 6): Analysis Symposium #2
- Week 7 (Jul 13): Writing a theory paper
- Final project
- Fall 2019
- Summer 2019
- Final project (Su19)
- Syllabus (Su19)
- Week 1 (Jun 3): Broadly Applicable Techniques (Su19)
- Week 2 (Jun 10): Techniques for Atonal Music (Su19)
- Week 3 (Jun 17): Analysis Symposium #1 (Su19)
- Week 4 (Jun 24): Techniques for Tonal Music (Su19)
- Week 5 (Jul 1): Techniques for Pop Music (Su19)
- Week 6 (Jul 8): Analysis Symposium #2 (Su19)
- Week 7: Writing a theory paper (Su19)
- Fall 2018
- Week 2: Narrative (F18)
- Week 3: Timbre (F18)
- Week 4: Set theory and segmentation (F18)
- Week 5: Serialism (F18)
- Week 6: Webern, Variations for Piano, Op. 27 (Analysis Symposium #1) (F18)
- Week 7: Tonal rhythm (F18)
- Week 8: Sonata Theory (F18)
- Week 9: Franz Schubert, “Tragic” Symphony, Finale (F18)
- Week 10: Tonality in Pop Music (F18)
- Week 11: Analysis of lyrics (F18)
- Week 12: “Same Drugs” by Chance the Rapper; “Broken Clocks” by SZA (F18)
- Week 13: How to Write a Theory Paper (F18)
- Week 15: Writing a final paper (F18)
