Music 691K - S-Analytical Tech/Post-Tonal

Fall
2026
01
3.00
Christopher White

TH 5:00PM 7:30PM

UMass Amherst
15774
Bromery Center for Arts Rm 421
cwmwhite@umass.edu
Introduction to the theory and analysis of post-tonal music, drawn from the work of Forte, Rahn, Perle, and others. Basic concepts including pitch class, integer notation, pitch-class sets, normal form, set class relatedness, symmetry, and interval cycles. Analytic applications to compositions of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Bartok, Debussy and others.

This course is open to Music Graduate students in any concentration. Undergraduate Music majors can enroll with instructor permission only.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.