A Feeling for Harmony A 3-Semester Music Theory Course Book 3: Chromatic Harmony and Modern Compositional Techniques and Analysis

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Introduction to the Course

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Syllabus 2011

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GLOBAL ASSIGNMENT PAGE FOR FALL, 2011

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Review of Foundational Materials

Introduction
1A Harmonic Ratios
1B Scales and Intervals
1C Harmonic Polarity
1D Essential Harmony Review

Chapter 2 Chromatic Harmony in the 19^th Century: A Dualist Approach

2A Chromatic Expansion of Tonality and the decline of rhythmic symmetry
2B Harmonic dualism (polarity): modern revisions of a 19^th century idea
2C Chromaticism and modality in the Chopin Mazurkas
2D Chromaticism and modality in Grieg and Liszt
2E Brahms the Progressive
2F Wagner and Verdi
2G The Russians: Mussorgsky, Rimsky and Scriabin
2H Speculative Music Theory in the 19th Century

Chapter 3 Impressionism and Jazz

3A The return to modal thought
3B Modal harmonies
3C Parallelism and the whole tone scale influence
3D Composing after Debussy and Ravel
3E The Gershwin connection
3F The harmony of jazz (1930-1970)

Chapter 4 Early to mid-20^th Century Techniques

4A The emancipation of dissonance: Schoenberg’s view, Scriabin's practice
4B The spirituality of dissonance: Ives, Rudhyar and the American Moderns
4C New concepts of rhythm 1: Stravinsky
4D The focus on motivic unity: beyond harmonic progression
4E New scales 1: the octatonic in Stravinsky and Bartok
4F New scales 2: the overtonal scale in Bartok
4G New scales 3: modes of limited transposition in Messaien
4H New concepts of rhythm 2: Messaien and the influence of Hindustani music
4I New Concepts of form: Bartok and the Fibonacci proposition
4J Neo Classicism then and now
4K 12-tone Technique and the New Viennese School
4L Serialsm after Schoenberg and the concept of "Post-tonal Theory"

Chapter 5 20^th Century Techniques: 1960 to the present

5A Finding their own way: Britten, Ligeti, Berio
5B The new Tonality: Pärt, Gorecki
5C Uptown: Carter, Babbitt and their contemporaries
5E Downtown and out West: Glass and Reich / Adams and Harrison
5F The sound world of George Crumb
5G The internationalization of modern composition
5H Film scores
5I Today

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