MUSC 2461
Music Theory IV
New Mexico State University
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Dr. Lon W. Chaffin

575-646-2421
lchaffin@nmsu.edu















COURSE DATA

Syllabus


Syllabus Agreement Form

Textbook

 

Has my music made an
impression on you?




Claude Debussy





Claude Monet



TOPICS TO BE COVERED

    Other Types of Modulation                   Extended Tertian Harmony              
   
Polytonality                                      
    Alternative Scale Structure  

    Non-tertian Harmony
    Texturalism
    Timbralism
    Twelve-tone Technique                        Set Theory 
     

    20th-Century Movements
        Impressionism
        Primitivism
        Expressionism
        Neoclassicism
        Serialism
        Indeterminacy / Aleatoric Music
        Minimalism
        Electronic Music
        Musique Concrete



Assignments
(updated weekly)

For Friday, January 19
Syllabus Agreement due before class
Modulation Worksheet

For Monday, January 22
Analyze - Tristan und Isolde Prelude
measures 1-13


Wednesday, Jan. 24
Quiz

Friday, Feb.9
Composition #2

Monday, Feb. 12
Quiz (Composer Data / Impressionism)

Monday, Mar. 4
Quiz

Mar. 11 - 15
S P R I N G   B R E A K


May 6 - 10
Mon. 5/6
FINAL EXAM
10:30 am - 12:30 pm


ONLINE QUIZ FORM

Answer Sheet (PDF)







Vasily Kandinsky



Videos and Worksheets

Class Session - 1/17/24
Other Types of Modulation


Class Session - 1/19/24
Wagner


Class Session - 1/22/24
Extended Tertian Harmony


Class Session - 2/7/24
Impressionism


Class Sessio
n - 2/28/24
Review for Quiz


Class Session - 3/6/24
12-Tone Matrix


Class Session - 3/8/24
12-Tone Analysis


Class Session - 3/18/24
12-Tone Analysis 2


Class Session - 4/29/24
Practical Set Theory


The following videos are from
a previous semester.
Please ignore the dates and any
references to homework or exams.
Focus on the content.


Playlists/Concepts

Primitivism

Expressionism

12-Tone Matrix

Set Theory

Worksheet Video demo
Worksheet

Set Analysis (Rondo...)



New Year's Resolution?
"I resolve nothing!"


 

Arnold Schoenberg




Dr. Chaffin's Office Hours

Tuesdays & Thursdays
12:00 noon until 2:00 pm
(Mountain Time)

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Music for Listening Exams
(see "Online Resources")

Wagner - Prelude to Tristan und Isolde
Debussy - The Engulfed Cathedral
Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon...
Stravinsky - Rite... (Sacrificial Dance)
Bartók - Allegro Barbaro
Cage - Bacchanale
Orff - Carmina Burana (O Fortuna)
Berg - Wozzeck (Act III, Scenes 2 & 4)
Stravinsky - Octet for Wind Instruments
Hindemith - Ludus Tonalis (Fugues 2)
Schoenberg - String Qrt., Op.3, No. 30, IV
Webern - String Qrt., Op. 28, I
Glass - Metamorphosis No. 2
Reich - Nagoya Marimbas
Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Adams - Hallelujah Junction
Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge



 
ONLINE RESOURCES

Listening/Viewing Playlist

20th-Century Movements Playlist

Impressionism in 8 minutes

Expressionism in 8 minutes

Van Gogh's Art in 7 Minutes

Edvard Munch - Bio

Opera Antihero: Wozzeck
Wozzeck (Complete Opera)

Verklärte Nacht: Listening guide
Verklärte Nacht

Twelve-tone Composition
Writing a Row
Twelve-tone System in Context

Experimental Music

John Cage

Music of Changes

The Magic of Minimalism -1

The Magic of Minimalism -2

MultiPhase Loop (LWC)
 
Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher

Kandinsky and Music

Paul Klee



Presentations

Other Types of Modulations

Wagner's Mature Harmonic Style

Debussy's Engulfed Cathedral

Composers/Movement Styles




SUPPORT MATERIALS

Kobayashi Maru

Music to Study Music Theory By






Mark Rothko



Knock, knock!     Who's there?

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Knock, knock!     Who's there?

Knock, knock!     Who's there?
 


Philip Glass