This week, everyone will analyze a movement from Mozart’s String Quartet in G major, K. 387, to review our techniques for tonal music.
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hypermeter and sonata theory
Week 7 (Oct 2): Sonata Theory
This week, you’ll learn a new(ish) approach to sonata form. You’ll also do some practice analysis on your own to see how it differs from what you already knew.
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This week you will learn how to approach a large-scale metrical understanding of tonal music: hypermeter. You’ll get introduced to the concept through Edward Klorman’s excellent summary of popular approaches, listen to several pieces by Strauss, Mozart, Bach, Haydn, and others, and do your own analysis of a song by Clara Schumann.
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