S-Analytical Tech/Post-Tonal

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.

Analysis of Pop and Rock Music

Popular music is a repertoire. While in some ways its inner workings may seem simpler than Western Classical music, its musical materials can be extremely complex and varied. This becomes especially true when considering the music materials? interactions with their cultural surroundings and means of social production. This class will balance musical analysis with this social theory, delving into rock?s compositional norms (harmony, syntax, rhythms, and the like) while asking why these choices are made.

Topics in Musical Culture

This course will provide graduate students in all Music Department areas the opportunity to deeply explore a bounded musical topic by examining it through a historical or historiographical lens. Regardless of the topic selected for a given iteration of this class, the class will always be defined by its focus on historiography, in other words the question of how a particular topic has been established, explained, theorized, and debated by people over time.

Music History Pedagogy

This course equips graduate students of all disciplines to teach music history effectively to a variety of audiences. The course content ranges from the practical to the theoretical; students not only practice teaching, observe others teach, survey textbooks, and design their own syllabi, but also grapple with differing philosophies and methods of teaching. The course culminates with a symposium-style presentation of a creative pedagogical idea.
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