Honors Seminar: Performance-Based Analysis (3 cr.)
Prof. Gary Wittlich
9:05-9:55 AM MWF Room SY037
Description and approach:
• Performance-Based Analysis will focus on how musical analysis can aid musical performance. Primary emphasis will be placed on pitch and rhythm structure in tonal music of the eighteenth-twentieth-centuries, including jazz if interest warrants.
• The first part of the semester will be devoted to introduction of analytic techniques, accompanied by short assignments for practice.
• Students will focus on works they have studied or are studying for project assignments.
• The class will be conducted as much as possible in seminar, rather than lecture, format.
Requirements:
• Readings in various books and journals as a basis for class discussion, including articles on performance research;
• Analysis assignments to practice application of analytic methodologies;
• Group (collaborative) analyses of selected works to be presented in class (tentative);
• Midterm (shorter) and final (longer) performance/analysis projects presented in class.
Enrollment:
• Limited to 15 students
• Authorization (instructor's signature) is needed to enroll
• Prerequisite: T252
Questions
• Please stop by my office or send email to wittlich@indiana.edu
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