Homework Assignments

I. Tonal Harmony in the Late Nineteenth Century

1. Analysis: Wagner Prelude to Tristan und Isolde (pdf)

II. Tonal Harmony in Jazz and Popular Music

1. Analysis {Due: Mon., Jan. 28}
   1. Ellington/Strayhorn Take the 'A' Train (pdf)
   2. Gershwin A Foggy Day (pdf)
2. Jazz/Pop Chord Spelling
   Part I: Triads and Seventh Chords, Horace Silver's Nica's Dream (pdf)
   Part 2: Sus, Slash and Ninth Chords, Herbie Hancock's Dolphin Dance (pdf)
3. Analysis: Hancock Dolphin Dance (pdf)
4. Self-Tests
   1. Lead-Sheet Symbols (pdf)
   2. ANALYSIS: Silver Nica's Dream (pdf)
   3. Transposed Diatonic Modes (pdf)

III. Introduction to the Techniques, Materials and Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music

1. Analysis: Debussy "Prelude" to The Afternoon of the Faun (pdf)
2. Diatonic Modes
   1. Melody & Mode Transformation (pdf)
   2. Debussy "Sarabande" from Pour le Piano (pdf)
   3. Mode Identification (pdf)
3. Scales
   1. Scale Spelling (pdf)
   2. Self-Tests:
      1. Properties of Scales (pdf); Answer Key (pdf)
      2. Scales & Symmetry (pdf
4. Analysis
   1. Bartok Song of the Harvest (pdf)
   2. Davis So What (pdf)
5. Chord Structures
   1. Part I: Tertian, Quartal, Added-Tone, Sus, and Slash Chords (pdf)
   2. Part II: Tertian, Quartal/Quintal, Secundal, Split-Third, Tone Cluster, Whole-tone, and Polychordal (pdf
6. Analysis
   1. Stravinsky Firebird
   2. Stravinsky Petrushka
   3. Stravinsky Rite of Spring

IV. Expanded Rhythmic Resources

1. Expanded Rhythmic Resources (pdf)
2. Analysis
   1. Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat, March
   2. Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste, I
   3. Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time, I & VI
   4. Carter String Quartet No. 2, Introduction
   5. Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano, Study No. 2a
   6. Reich Clapping Music and Piano Phase

V. Atonal Theory

1. Pitch Notation, Interval Measurement & Interval Content (pdf)
2. Mod 12 (pdf)
3. Transposition (T_n) and Inversion (T_nI) (pdf)
4. Set Class Determination {Due: Wed., April 16}
   • Trichords (pdf)
   • Tetrachords (pdf)
5. Self-Tests
   1. Basic Atonal Theory (pdf); Answer Key (pdf)
   2. Properties of Set Classes (pdf); Answer Key (pdf)
6. ANALYSIS
   1. Schoenberg Piano Piece, Op. 11, No. 1
   2. Schoenberg, Piano Piece, Op. 19, No. 6
   3. Varèse Density 21.5
   4. Webern Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10, No. 1

VI. Twelve-Tone Serialism

1. Creating a Babbitt Square (pdf) {Due: Wed., April 23}
2. Series Structure (pdf)
3. ANALYSIS:
   1. Schoenberg Fourth String Quartet, Op. 37, I
   2. Stravinsky Fanfare for a New Theatre
   3. Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31, Introduction and Theme
   4. Berg Lyric Suite, I
   5. Webern Variations, Op. 27, II
   6. Boulez Structures, Ia

VII. Music Since 1945

1. TBA

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