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Syllabus (F23)
Course bibliography
Microsoft Teams
Blackboard
Readings, scores, recordings

Course schedule

Week 1 (Aug 21): Intertextuality
Week 2 (Aug 28): Narrative
Week 3 (Sep 4): Set Theory
Week 4 (Sep 11): Serialism
Week 5 (Sep 18): Analysis Symposium #1
Week 6 (Sep 25): Hypermeter
Week 7 (Oct 2): Sonata Theory
Week 8 (Oct 9): Analysis Symposium #2
Week 9 (Oct 16): Timbre
Week 10 (Oct 23): Lyrics
Week 11 (Oct 30): Tonality in Pop Music
Week 12 (Nov 6): Analysis Symposium #3
Week 13 (Nov 13): Project preparation
Final project

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Intertextuality and Narrative

Week 2 (Aug 28): Narrative

This week, you’ll read about the most prominent theory of narrative in the field of music theory and analyze a piece with narrative theory.

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Posted on July 2, 2023October 24, 2023Author Dr. LavengoodCategories Fall 2023Tags Broadly Applicable Techniques

Week 1 (Aug 21): Intertextuality

Postmodernism had a huge impact on academia in the humanities, of which music theory is a part. This week involves some philosophy as you learn about Roland Barthes’s essay “The Death of the Author.”

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Posted on July 1, 2023October 24, 2023Author Dr. LavengoodCategories Fall 2023Tags Broadly Applicable Techniques

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