Class notes

• Recapitulation
  
  • Tonal System
    
  • Overtone series and tunings
• From tonality to atonality
  
  • Hugo Wolf - Mignon II: Nur wer die Sensucht kenn score; recording (Elisabeth Swartzkopf)
  • Richard Strauss - Solo scene from Elektra , fragment (pdf);
    • recording with score (at 6:05 min.)
    • Elektra, the opera
    • Elektra chord
    • more chords
  • Anton Webern - Lied, Op.3 # 1 pdf
    • Brief analysis of Webern Op.3 No.1
      
  • On set theory and more on set theory
• Constructive devices
  
  • Claude Debussy - ...Danseuses de Delphes recording with score; score pdf
    • Brief comments on "Danseuses de Delphes..."
      
  • Modes and scales
    
  • Rhytmic systems
    
  • Polytonality and Neoclassicism
  • Spectrum and timbre
  • Olivier Messiaen
• Tone-row music and serialism
  • Tone row music
    • Arnold Schoenberg - Variations for Orchestra Op. 31 recording with score; score
    • Tone-row II: Berg - Violin Concerto
      • score excerpts (pdf) |
    • Tone-row III: Webern
  • Integral serialism I
    • Olivier Messiaen - Modes de valeurs et d'intensitees (pdf) recording with score; score fragment
    • Pierre Boulez - -Structures Ia recording; score excerpt (pdf)
    • Historical background: Berlin 1945 video.
  • Integral serialism II
    • Pierre Boulez - La marteau sans maitre recording with score;
      • Le marteau sans maitre -text (pdf)
      • Le marteau sans maitre: "domains" and score fragments (pdf) ]
    • Karlheinz Stockhausen ...how time passes... .pdf
      • Gruppen fur drei Orchester recording with score; video
• Indeterminacy
  • John Cage and Chance Music
  • Aleatory Music
  • Concept Music
• Other trends
  • Minimalism
  • Sound mass
  • Microtonal music
• Music, mathematics, science, and technology.
  • Electro-acoustic music
  • Digital synthesis
    
    
  • Mathematics and Computer-assisted Composition

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