Assignments

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Assignments

				For Tues. (10/30/07)

				Study Chapters 5 and 6 in the Cope

				Indeterminacy (p. 77) Experimentalism (p. 103)

				For Thurs. (10/25/07)

				Mid-term Exam

				Other types of Modulation Alternative Scale Forms Other types of harmonic structures 12-tone theory Set theory analysis

				For Tues. (10/23/07)

				Quiz on Set Theory Study Chapt. 4 - Timbralism and Tuning

				For Thurs. (10/18/07)

				Study the material dealing with Hindemith's concept of tonality (p. 39-40)

				Analyze his "Fuga secunda in G" (p. 41-43)

				Label every entrance of the main subject Bracket and label every instance of the Prime Form sets 027, 014, and 013

				For Thurs. (10/11/07)

				Analyze the first page of "Traffic" finding all the Prime Forms (set theory) of the vertical structures.

				For Thurs. (10/4/07)

				Read Chapters 2 and 3 in the Cope, "New Directions in Music"

				2 - Atonality and Serialism (p. 17) 3 - Texturalism (p. 33)

				Select a piece from your current private study to prepare for your Lecture Recital

				Write a one-page "overview" of the piece

				Explain why you chose the piece for your Lecture List interesting aspects of the piece you will cover in the Lecture

				For Thurs. (9/27/07)

				Finish analysis of Webern's Op. 27 - 2nd Movement Listening quiz - styles characteristics of 20th-Century Movements

				For Tues. (9/25/07)

				Label all row variations and transpositions on the matrix for "Fugue for Three" (p. 28)

				Compose your own 12-tone row and complete the matrix for it

				(Get a blank matrix here)

				For Thurs. (9/20/07)

				Quiz

				Excerpt from "La cathédrale engloutie" Polytonality, Stravinsky, and Ives

				Study

				Neoclassicism 12-Tone Technique 2nd Viennese School Schönberg Webern Berg

				For Thurs. (9/13/07)

				Quiz on all the material previously assigned and covered in class Complete the scale analysis of "La cathédrale engloutie" Study the concept of "Polytonality" (p. 11) Study all the material on Stravinsky and Ives

				For Tues. (9/11/07)

				Read and study the concepts "Alternative Scale Structures" (p. 13)

				and "Non-tertian Harmony" (p. 21)

				Analyze and Identify the scale form in "Event Horizon" (p. 15)

				Analyze "La cathédrale engloutie" from the beginning through measure 27 (pgs. 16-18)

				Only identify scale forms

				For Thurs. (9/6/07)

				Read all the material on Debussy - pages 70-73 Be ready for a quiz on all the material assigned and covered in class, including Debussy

				For Tues. (9/4/07)

				Read the article "20th-Century Movements"

				Read and study the concept "Extended Tertian Harmony"

				Analyze the excerpts on page 10 (Debussy - "Pelléas..." and Ellington - "Prelude to a Kiss")

				For Tues. (8/28/07) - Print, read and sign the Theory IV syllabus

				Read the article "Contemporary Music: Change of Repetition"