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Seminar- Analytical Techniques for Post-Tonal Music

Fall 2024

Details

Credit

3

Mode

In Person

Component

Seminar

Meets

In Person September 3, 2024 - December 10, 2024

Instructors

Christopher White

Description

Introduction to the theory and analysis of post-tonal music, drawn from the work of Forte, Rahn, Perle, and others. Basic concepts including pitch class, integer notation, pitch-class sets, normal form, set class relatedness, symmetry, and interval cycles. Analytic applications to compositions of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Bartok, Debussy and others.

Eligibility


This course is open to Music Graduate students in any concentration.

Notes

Undergraduate Music majors can enroll with instructor permission only.

Dates

Start Date

September 3, 2024

End Date

December 10, 2024

Subject Details

Subject Description

Music

Subject

MUSIC

Catalog Number

691K

Class Number

32455

Catalog Details

Course ID

048058

Section

01

Academic Career

GRAD

Meeting

Fr 11:55AM 2:25PM Bromery Center for Arts Rm 421

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