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Analytical Techniques (MUSI 611)

Analytical Techniques (MUSI 611)

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  • Syllabus
  • Readings, scores, and recordings
  • Course Bibliography
  • Slack
  • Set up a one-on-one meeting

Course Overview

  • Syllabus
  • Broadly Applicable Techniques
    • Week 1 (Jan 25): Intertextuality
    • Week 2 (Feb 1): Narrative
  • Techniques for Atonal Music
    • Week 3 (Feb 8): Set Theory
    • Week 4 (Feb 15): Serialism
    • Week 5 (Feb 22): Analysis Symposium #1
  • Techniques for Tonal Music
    • Week 6 (Mar 1): Tonal Rhythm
    • Week 7 (Mar 8): Sonata Theory
    • Week 8 (Mar 15): Analysis Symposium #2
  • Techniques for Pop Music
    • Week 9 (Mar 22): Timbre
    • Week 10 (March 29): Lyrics
    • Week 11 (Apr 5): Tonality in Pop Music
    • Week 12 (Apr 12): Analysis Symposium #3
  • Week 13 (Apr 19): Project preparation
  • Final project

Tags

  • alanis morissette
  • ani difranco
  • anton webern
  • atonal
  • byron almén
  • edward klorman
  • form
  • Franz Josef Haydn
  • frederic chopin
  • giuseppe verdi
  • hepokoski darcy
  • hypermeter
  • intertextuality
  • james hepokoski
  • joseph straus
  • JS Bach
  • lorde
  • lori burns
  • ludwig van beethoven
  • lyrics
  • mark spicer
  • narrative
  • opera
  • orchestral music
  • performance
  • phrase
  • piano music
  • pj harvey
  • pop music
  • postmodernism
  • Richard Strauss
  • ruth crawford seeger
  • serialism
  • seth monahan
  • set theory
  • sonata form
  • sonata theory
  • string music
  • string quartet
  • tonality
  • tonal rhythm
  • tori amos
  • vocal music
  • warren darcy
  • wolfgang mozart

 

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Week 2 (Feb 1): 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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Week 1 (Jun 1): Broadly Applicable Techniques

This week, you will learn about postmodernism and its significance in music scholarship. You will also learn about narrative theory in literature and how it applies to music analysis.

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Week 2 (Sep 2): Narrative (F19)

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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Week 1 (Jun 3): Broadly Applicable Techniques (Su19)

This week, you will learn about postmodernism and its significance in music scholarship. You will also learn about narrative theory in literature and how it applies to music analysis.

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Week 2: Narrative (F18)

August 30 to Sept 5. 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. This week ends in an in-person meeting on Sept 5.
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