MUTH 6680 "The Analysis of New Music"
David Schwarz
* MUTH 6680 Fall 2005
* Instructor: Dr. David Schwarz
* Office: MU 346
* Phone: (940) 369-7299
* E-mail: dschwarz@music.unt.edu
* Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:00-2:00
In this course we will work on anaylzing new music. A copy of reader of articles and scores is waiting for you at the Union. You may each make one copy of the reader for your own use. We will focus on readings on Tuesdays and Analytical Work on Thursdays; the pieces for the class come (in large part) from the readings. You may listen to the pieces on line on the Player to the right.
Since this is an advanced graduate class, regular and punctual attendance is assumed. One cut is allowed; each subsequent cut will lower your final grade 1/3 a letter. Excused absences (medical emergencies and scheduled UNT COM activities) will not affect your grade.
You will write one-page beginnings of papers for each Thursday's discussion of music. These pages should sound like the beginnings of analytical papers; they will articulate an analytic thesis and cover one musical example from / of the work in question.
Grades will be determined as follows:
* Daily Participation and Writing = 20%
* Seminar Paper = 80%
* 08.30.2005--Robert Morgan, "On the Analysis of Recent Music" p. 1
* 09.01.2005--Berio, "Seqenza III" p. 23
* 09.06.2005--Jonathan Bernard, "Voice-Leading as a Spatial Function in the Music of Ligeti" p. 31
* 09.08.2005--Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna" p. 59
* 09.13.2005--Patrick McCreless, "Anatomy of a Gesture: From Davidovsky to Chopin and Back" p. 78
* 09.13.2005--Davidovsky, "Electronic Study No. 1" not in reader
* 09.15.2005--Rochberg's "Oboe Concerto" p. 110
* 09.20.2005--Philip Lambert, "Toward a Theory of Chord Structure for the Music of Ives" p. 138
* 09.22.2005--Charles Ives, "Tom Sails Away" p. 168
* 09.27.2005--David S. Lefkowitz, "Schoenberg and His Op. 23, #4: A Functional Analysis" p. 171
* 09.29.2005--Individual Class Functional Analyses
* 10.04.2005--Joseph N. Straus, Atonal Voice-Leading -- In-Class Handout 09.29.05
* 10.06.2005--Webern, Bagatelle Opus 9, No. 5
* 10.06.2005--Berg, Opus 2, No. 4
* 10.11.2005--presentations on atonal voice-leading
* 10.13.2005--No Class
* 10.27.2005--Rihm's "Gesungene Zeit" I not in the reader
* 10.27.2005--Rihm's "Gesungene Zeit" II not in the reader
* 10.27.2005--Pearsall, "Interpreting Music Durationally" p. 199
* 11.01.2005--Lewin, Some Ideas About Voice-Leading Between PCSets
* 11.03.2005--Risset's "Mutations" not in the reader
* 11.03.2005--Robert Morris, "Listening to Milton Babbitt's Electronic Music: The Medium and the Message" p. 294
* 11.08.2005--Babbitt, Twelve-Tone Rhythmic Structures and the Electronic Medium | On the cork board outside my office by Friday noon
* 11.10.2005--Rovan, "Vis-a-Vis" not in the reader
* 11.17.2005--Rovan, Vis-a-Vis (on reserve at chilton)
* 11.22.2005--Stockhausen, As time passes
* 11.29.2005--Dave Spectral Music and Stockhausen
* 12.01.2005--John Adams, "On the Transmigration of Souls"
* 12.06.2005--Seminar Paper Conferences
* 12.08.2005--Seminar Paper Conferences
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* 12.15.2005--Seminar Papers Due at Noon