- MUTH 5370: Analytical Techniques III, Summer I 2018
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, (and one Friday, June 8) online Office Hours: To be Announced
- Instructor: Dr. David Bard-Schwarz
- Office: MU 104
- E-mail: david.schwarz@unt.edu
In this course we will listen to and analyze 20th Century Music. We will emphasize precise musical-theoretical analysis incorporated into clear, persuasive language. The main parts of the course will comprise: 1) atonal pitch-class set theory and atonal music written roughly from 1905 to 1923, 2) 12-tone analytical techniques, and 3) hybrid works.
All course materials are present on this website in the form of pdf files (that you may download) and mp3 files to which you may listen. There will be two video lectures per day; I will compress and upload them to my YOUTUBE channel + Blackboard by 5 p.m. on each day.
All papers must be double-spaced, with 12 point font, 1 inch margins, and your name on each page (no cover pages); please write your name as: First Name + Last Name. Please put the following subject heading on the emails: subject: AT III paper #1 (or #2 for the second; #3 for the third). Papers must be saved as pdf files. I must receive papers by noon US Central Standard Time on the day due; papers will loose 1 letter grade for each day late.
Grades will be determined as follows: (papers will loose 1 grade per day late).
- Short Paper #1 = 33% (on a primarily atonal piece using atonal pitch-class set theory).
- Short Paper #2 = 33% (on a primarily serial piece using 12-tone techniques).
- Short Paper #3 = 33% (on hybrid techniques)
- 06.04.2018
Thresholds: from the 19th to the 20th Century
1) Introduction to the course: from diatonic tonal music to chromatic tonal music to atonal music | (atonal) music + analysis
2) Berg, Sonata for Piano Opus 1: pdf | The initial phrase of the Berg, Opus 1: pdf | Annotation of the initial phrase of the Berg, Opus 1: pdf
- 06.05.2018
See if you can find traces of nineteenth-century sonorities, procedures, gestures, in the following works. And what are aspects of them that clearly point to the symmetries of the twentieth century?
1) hearing and not hearing atonal music
2) Schoenberg, Verklaerte Nacht (transition between the sonatas): pdf
- 06.06.2018
Atonality and Atonal Pitch-Class Set Theory
1) Straus, Chapter 1: pdf | pitch names: pdf
- 06.07.2018
1) Straus, Chapter 2: pdf atonal pitch-class sets, segmentation, normal form
A guide to finding a pitch-class set's normal order: pdf
- 06.08.2018
1) Straus, Chapter 2: set classes | Set Class List from Straus: pdf | How to determine prime form: pdf
2) Webern, Songs Opus 3: pdf | Stephan George: "Dies ist ein Lied": pdf
- 06.11.2018
1) Straus, Chapter 2: Transposition: pdf and Inversion: pdf
- 06.12.2018
1) Straus, Chapter 3: pdf (contour segments)
- 06.13.2018
1) atonal voice-leading; read Straus, pages 107-110 Webern, Pieces for Violin and Piano Opus 7 no. 1: pdf
2) subsets and supersets Berg, Songs Opus 2 no. 4: pdf
- 06.14.2018
Paper on Atonal Music Due. Use atonal pitch-class set theory and other intuitive perceptions to write a paper on Berg's Piece for Clarinet and Piano Opus 5, no. 2: pdf
Berg's Piece for Clarinet and Piano Opus 5, no. 2: mp3
Your paper should work through the music illustrating what you hear with musical examples and a few well-chosen citations from the readings (Meyer, most obviously). Here is a sample documentation handout. And here are writing quidelines: pdf. Make sure, above all, that you use "I"--you are making an argument based not on what "reality" may or may not be, but on how you hear the piece and understand its musical language.
Serialism and 12-tone Techniques
1) Straus, Chapter 5: pdf The Row and The Matrix.
2) Webern, Symphony Opus 21, II: pdf (NB: the score is in C!)
- 06.18.2018
1) Webern, Opus 21 II: variations 1 and 2
2) Webern, Opus 21 II: variations 3 and 4
- 06.19.2018
1) Webern, Opus 21 II: variations 5 and 6
2) Webern, Opus 21 II: variation 7 and coda
- 06.20.2018
1) partitioning and cross-partititioning Webern, String Quartet Opus 28: pdf
Webern, String Quartet Opus 28 (matrix): pdf
2) polarity Webern, Variations for piano Opus 27, no. 2: pdf
- 06.21.2018
1) Hexachordal Combinatoriality
Berg, Lulu, the basic series (matrix): pdf
Webern, Opus 27, no. 2 (matrix): pdf
Webern, Opus 21, II (matrix): pdf
2) Dallapiccola Quaderno di musicale annalibera (complete): pdf. Work on number 3 for today. Matrix for no. 3: pdf (the same for all the pieces).
- 06.25.2018
1) Dallapiccola, Quaderno no. 4
2) Dallapiccola, Quaderno no. 6
- 06.26.2018
Paper on Serial Music Due. Following the guidelines for your first paper, write a paper on Dallapiccola's Quaderno no. 1
Hybrid Techniques
1) Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste, I: pdf
2) Reich, Violin Phase
- 06.27.2018
1) Yuasa, White Noise
2) Luciano Berio, Sequenza no. 3
- 06.28.2018
1) Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 15: serenade: pdf
2) Arvo Paert, Spiegel im Spiegel
- 07.02.2018
- 07.03.2018
- 07.05.2018
Paper on Hybrid Techniques Write your final paper on Bartok, "From the Diary of a Fly: pdf