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3.00 Credits
Examines both German Romantic poetry and the musical settings of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, and others. As the Lied genre developed, the poetic text seemed to encourage innovation and daring in virtually every aspect of musical composition. Study of the poetic text will lead to greater understanding of all aspects of the musical setting: harmony, tonality, melody, motive, meter, rhythm, articulation through texture, register, timbre, etc. Where possible, students will perform various Lieder in the classroom. Perequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Stein
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Study of composition in France at the beginning of the 20th century. The course will explore interrelationships between the visual arts, literature, and music, using the text of the play Pélléas and Melisande and poems set by Fauré, Debussy, anothers. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Buys
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Introduces facets of Schenker's analytical process most pertinent to performers: how a work is shaped by a counterpoint of melody and bass; how harmonic flow and melodic shape involve prolongation; how melodic lines evolve; and how motivic elements recur. Demonstrates the application to performance through student per - formances informed by analysis. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Stein
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Study of the development of musical language after 1945 includes dramatic shifts in the concepts of melody, harmony, tonality, and non-tonal languages, meter, rhythm, form and expressivity. Composers include Carter, Messiaen, Cage, Babbitt, Ligeti, Boulez, Stockhausen, Reich, and Glass. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Miljkovic
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Explores the temporal aspects of music: rhythm and rhythmic grouping, meter and hypermeter, non-metric musical stress, phrase structure, including phrase lengths, extensions and expansions, issues of notation and tempo. Emphasis is on identifying musical challenges and determining criteria for performers' interpretative choices. Classwork includes selected readings, analysis, in-class performance workshops, and papers. Repertoire includes Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Mahler. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Faculty
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Explores 20th-century innovations in the temporal part of music, including more complex use of rhythms, meters, phrase structures, tempi and notation, and musical stress. Works of Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, Ives, Carter, Messiaen, Boulez, Stockhausen, Cage, Reich, etc. illustrate new concepts of time, including influences of folk rhythm, new organizations of temporal elements, and new concepts of temporal form. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Faculty
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Explores musical innovation that results from setting the poetic text. Repertory includes German Lieder, French Melodies, English and Russian art songs; and orchestral text settings. Analysis will include harmony & tonality; rhythm, meter, phrase, texture, timbre, and register, and formal structure. Prerequisite: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Faculty
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Explores the development of tonal language and musical form in music of the mid- 19th to early 20th century. Topics might include harmonic and tonal innovations, devel opments in temporality (rhythm, meter and phrase), expanded use of orchestral resources (timbres, textures, registers) and other compositional developments. Prerequisites: THYU 202, 208. (3 credits) Faculty
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3.00 Credits
Studies the contrapuntal practice of John Sebastian Bach with particular attention to his two-part keyboard inventions and fugues from the Well-tempered Clavier. Aspects of style and compositional technique will be explored through listening, analysis, and performance, as well as through constant writing of contrapuntal exercises modeled on Bach's music. During the semester, each student will compose one complete two-part invention and a three-part fugal exposition (for keyboard or a combination of melodic instruments), which will be performed and discussed in class. (3 credits) Truniger
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Studies Beethoven's String Quartets, with special attention to formal design, harmonic structure, motivic development, and texture, as well as the implications of these for performance. (3 credits) Graybill
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