MUTH 6680 "Atonal Voice-Leading"
David Schwarz
* MUTH 6680 Atonal Voice-Leading
* Instructor: Dr. David Schwarz
* Office: MU 346
* Phone: (940) 369-7299
* E-mail: dschwarz@music.unt.edu
* Mondays through Thursdays 2:00 to 3:50 MU 250
In this course, we will study theories of atonal voice-leading. We will use such theories to understand the pitch structure of works loosely classified as "atonal." Everyone in class will have one piece of music as a focal point. Everyone in class will master the pitch materials of his / her piece in order to play excerpts in class to illustrate aspects of structure.
In addition, we will work with computational tools, such as AthenaCL.
Students will write one seminar paper incorporating salient aspects of our reading applied rigorously to the piece with which they have been working throughout the term. Papers will be planned, researched, written, and revised with submission to a major music theory journal as the final goal of the term. The paper is due at the beginning of class July 7.
The following books and disserations (in green) have been placed on reserve at the Music Library; articles will be placed in a reader to be photocopied for your use at the Copy Center in the Union:
* Callender, Clifton, and Ian Quinn, Dmitri Tymoczko. "Generalized Chord Spaces" (unpublished ms).
* Callender, Clifton. "Continuous Transformations" in Music Theory Online. Volume 10, no. 3, September 2004.
* Douthett, Jack and Peter Steinbach. "Parsimonious Graphs: A Study in Parsimony, Contextual Transformations, and the Modes of Limited Transposition" in Journal of Music Theory. Volume 42, no. 2, Fall 1998.
* Headlam, Dave. "Perle's Cyclic Sets and Klumpenhouwer Networks: A Response" in Music Theory Spectrum. Volume 24, no. 2, Fall 2002.
* Klumpenhouwer, Henry. A Generalized Model of Voice-Leading for Atonal Music. Ph.D. Dissertation. Harvard University, 1991. MT40 .K698 1991a.
* Lambert, Philip. "Isographies and Some Klumpenhouwer Networks They Involve" in Music Theory Spectrum. Volume 24, no. 2, Fall 2002.
* Lewin, David. Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987). �ML3809 .L39 1987.
* Lewin, David. "Thoughts on Klumpenhouwer Networks and Perle-Lansky Cycles" in Music Theory Spectrum. Volume 24, no. 2, Fall 2002.
* Lewin, David. "Some Ideas about Voice-Leading Between Pcsets" in Journal of Music Theory. Volume 42, no. 1, Spring 1998.
* Morris, Robert. "New Directions in the Theory and Analysis of Musical Contour" in Music Theory Spectrum. Volume 15, no. 2, Fall 1993.
* Morris, Robert. "Voice-Leading Spaces" in Music Theory Spectrum. Volume 20, no. 2, Fall 1998. O'Donnell, Shaugn. Transformational Voice-Leading for Atonal Music. Ph. D. Dissertation. CUNY Graduate Center, 1997.
* Roeder, John. " Geometric Representation of Pitch-Class Series" in Perspectives of New Music. Volume 25, nos. 1 and 2, Winter and Summer 1987.
* Straus, Joseph. "Uniformity, Balance, and Smoothness in Atonal Voice-Leading" in Music Theory Spectrum. Volume 25, no. 2, Fall 2003.
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* David Huff will be working on the Berg, Lieder Opus 2
* Alex Amato will be working on Ives Songs
* Alan Swartz will be working on the Schoenberg, Das Buch des haengenden Gartens "Unterm schutz von dichten blaettergruenden [sic]"
* Paul Tompkins will be workiung on Picker, "Invisible Lilacs"
* Linda-Rose Hembreiker will be working on Stravinsky, "Four Russian Songs"
* Justin Grey will be working on Dallapiccola, "Quaderno musicale di Annalibera"
* 06.01.2006--Berg, Opus 2, no. 1
* 06.01.2006--Berg, Opus 2, no. 2
* 06.01.2006--Berg, Opus 2, no. 3
* 06.01.2006--Berg, Opus 2, no. 4
* 06.01.2006--Schoenberg, Unterm schutz von dichten blaettergruenden
* 06.01.2006--Picker, Invisible Lilacs
* 06.01.2006--Stravinsky, Four Russian Songs
* 06.05.2006--Webern, Opus 6, no. 4
* 06.06.2006--Review of Tonal Voice-Leading
* 06.07.2006--Review of Chromatic Voice-Leading
* 06.08.2006--Review of Atonal Pitch-Class Set Theory
* 06.09.2006--Lewin, "Some Ideas about Voice-Leading"
* 06.12.2006--Webern, Opus 6, no. 4
* 06.12.2006--Straus, Joseph. "Uniformity, Balance, and Smoothness in Atonal Voice-Leading"
* 06.12.2006--Webern, Opus 6, no. 4
* 06.13.2006--Berg, opus 2, no. 2
* 06.13.2006--Schoenberg, "unterm Schutz"
* 06.13.2006--Cohn, Richard. "Introduction to Neo-Riemannian Theory"
* 06.14.2006--Picker, Invisible Lilacs
* 06.14.2006--Douthett, Jack and Peter Steinbach. "Parsimonious Graphs: A Study in Parsimony, Contextual Transformations, and the Modes of Limited Transposition"
* 06.15.2006--O'Donnell, "Klumpenhouwer Networks"
* 06.15.2006--Stravinsky, "Russian Songs"
* 06.19.2006--Lambert, "Isographies and Some Klumpenhouwer Networks They Involve"
* 06.20.2006--Schwarz, "Atonal Voice-Leading, Split Transposition, and Aggregate Completion"
* 06.20.2006--Webern, Opus 6, no. 4
* 06.20.2006--Dallapiccola, Quaderno: "contrapuncus primus"
* 06.21.2006--Morris, Robert. "Voice-Leading Spaces"
* 06.21.2006--Schoenberg, "Unterm schutz von dichten blaettergruenden"
* 06.22.2006--Morris, Robert. "New Directions in the Theory and Analysis of Musical Contour"
* 06.26.2006--Webern, Opus 9, no. 4
* 06.27.2006--Callender, Continuous Transformations (part one)
* 06.28.2006--Callender, Continuous Transformations (part two)
* 06.28.2006--Transposition, Split Transpostion, and Retrograded Ordered Series in Webern Bagatelle Opus 9, IV
* 06.29.2006--Generalized Chord Spaces (part one)
* 07.03.2006--Generalized Chord Spaces (part two)