University of South Carolina
School of Music

BAIN MUSC 525
Post-Tonal Music Theory


C O U R S E   M O D U L E S
1.

Basic Concepts and Definitions

2. Pitch-Class Sets
Set Properties and Relations
4. Advanced Topics
5. Serialism

Vermeer's View of Delft (1656-60)

News

Theorist Guy Capuzzo will be our guest on Friday, Oct. 3.
Check out his recent MTO article Maximally Alpha-Like Operations.

Online Media Resources

  1. Straus Analysis Audio Files
  2. Online Course Listening from the Naxos Music Library
  3. J. Kent Williams's Bartók's Mikrokosmos: Exploring Style and Structure
  4. Stravinsky's Fanfare for a New Theatre

Software for Post-Tonal Theory

  1. Reginald Bain's Atonal Assistant (v2.19d) and Twelve-Tone Assistant (v2.20d)
  2. Other Tools

Course Documents

  1. Syllabus (pdf)
  2. Reading Schedule (pdf)
  3. Homework Schedule (pdf)
  4. Other Assignments
  5. Self-Tests
  6. Bibliography/Research

Chapter/Topic Overviews

  1. Ch. 1 (pdf)
  2. Ch. 2 (pdf)
  3. Ch. 3 (pdf)
  4. Ch. 4 (pdf)
  5. Diatonic Set Theory (pdf)
  6. Ch. 5 (pdf)
  7. Ch. 6 (pdf)

Theory Exercise Answer Keys

  1. Ch. 1: I-VII (pdf) ~ VIII (pdf)
  2. Ch. 2: I-II (pdf) ~ III-V (pdf) ~ VI-VII (pdf)
  3. Ch. 3: I (pdf) ~ II (index matrices, pdf) ~ III-V (pdf) ~ VI (pdf) ~ VII (pdf) ~ VIII (pdf)
  4. Ch. 4:I-III (pdf)
  5. Ch. 5: I-III (pdf)
  6. Ch. 6: I-II (pdf)

Projects

  1. Atonal Analysis Project (pdf)
  2. Serial Analysis Project (pdf)

Reference

  1. Bain Set Class List v2 (pdf)
  2. Grove/Oxford Music Dictionary Online
  3. Misc. Topics
    1. On the short-cut method for determing prime form
    2. By the numbers:
      • The Number of Intervals Formed by a PC Set (pdf)
      • The Number of PC Sets (pdf)
      • The Number of Set Classes formed under Tn/TnI (pdf)
      • Equivalence Classes
      • c < 3 and c > 9 (pdf)

Updated: October 8, 2008

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