Mus 704 Section 1, (3 credits) Graduate
Theory Review
Dr.
Paul Seitz, Instructor. Email: ptseitz@pasty.com
Thursdays, 4:00 - 6:30 p.m., Room HFA 147
Mus 704 Calendar:
The following is a tentative outline of the topics we will study week by week through this semester, based on the Fall 2006 class. The larger number of students in the Fall, 2007, class will require a different allocation of teaching opportunities than those described below. These aspects of the calendar will be updated after our first class meeting.
Week 1: Syllabus. Diagnostic activities. Begin Species Counterpoint: Modes, Cantus Firmus, Species 1 and Species 2 (2 voices).
Week 2: Review Species 1 and 2. New: 1st Species 3-voice Counterpoint: "Harmonic function" resulting from application of CP rules. Application of "rules" and "what values can supercede rules?" Consider examples (Mozart's) of 2-voice 1st and 2nd Species Counterpoint.
Week 3: Review of 3-voice 1st Species procedures. Fundamentals of 3rd Species Counterpoint.
Week 4: Fundamentals 4th and 5th Species Counterpoint in 2 voices. New: 1st Species 3-voice Counterpoint: "Harmonic function" resulting from application of CP rules. Fundamentals of 3rd 4th and 5th Species Counterpoint in 2 voices.
Week 5: 3-voice 4th Species Counterpoint and relation to creation of suspensions in 4-part figured bass realization. Comparison of 5th Species practice and Harmonic implications in Missa Brevis Benedictus a 3 Harmony -- 2 teach: 6-4 Chords (KP Chap 9); Cadences, Periods, Forms (Chap 10)
Week 6: Harmony -- 3 teach: Brief review of Non-harmonic tones (Chap 11 & 12), Secondary Functions (Chap 16 & 17), and Modulations (Chap 18 & 19). Activity: Integrating concepts related to Species Counterpoint, Harmonic progression, "cadences, periods, forms" -- Analysis of opening theme, Mozart Piano Sonata, K. 331. Print Handout: Excerpts from Mozart K. 282 and K. 331.
Week 7: Student Analysis: 2 present: Analyses (harmony/voice-leading & formal) of examples of movements by Haydn and Mozart. New: Canon, Invertible Counterpoint in 2 part Inventions. Related materials: Example of:"Infinite Canon", Score for:Fugue by J. K. F. Fischer, MP3 Audio for the
Fischer Fugue, "Sample"
Baroque Style Fugue, MP3 Audio for
Seitz Fugue.
Week 8: Student analysis: 2 present: Invention. New: Fugue
Week 9: Student analysis: 2 present: Analyses of Fugues by J. S. Bach; New: Formal Analysis: Theme & Variations
Week 10: Student Analysis: Each class member analyzes relationship of Theme with a specific variation from a Theme & Variations movement by Mozart TBA. Harmony: 3 teach: Italian Sixth Chord & French Sixth Chord, German Sixth Chord, Neopolitan function. New: Rondo, Sonata-Rondo
Week 11: Student analysis: Comparitive analysis, as a class, of a Classical Rondo TBA. Begin: Sonata-allegro form/process.
Week 12: Student analysis: 2 present: Analyses of Classical Sonata-allegro movements, TBA. New: Larger scale Sonata-allegro form, e.g., Beethoven, Schubert, etc.
Week 13: Student analysis: 2 present: Expositions of larger scale Sonata-allegro movements, TBA; New: Motivic economy in late 19th, 20th-century music. Liszt: Nuages gris.
Week 14: Student analyses: 2 present: Analyses of Debussy Preludes, TBA. Review.
Week 15: Final Exam, Thurs., Dec. 13 at 6:00 p.m.