Introduction to post-tonal analysis and theory
An introduction to the analysis and theory of so-called “post-tonal” twentieth- and
twenty-first-century music. We will explore standard concepts essential to
the analysis of a wide field of repertory: pitch-class sets,
transposition and inversion relations, pitch symmetry, centricity, twelve-tone
operations, rhythmic cycles, and textural innovations. Beyond these specific conceptual concerns, the seminar is very concerned with ways of writing effectively about musical gesture, expression, structure and rhetoric (assignments will include several short analytic papers, as well as longer final paper).
Music by Boulez, Birtwistle, Carter, Donatoni, Ligeti, Maxwell Davies, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, Webern, and others. Selected readings from the analytic-theoretic literature.
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