T545 Fall 1997

Analysis of Music Literature (3 cr.)

Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert

9:30-10:15 am TR Room M267

Prerequisites

T508, M541, and M542 (or equivalent)

Description

T545 will explore a selection of music literature from 1600-1920 (approx.) along with a range of analytical techniques applicable to the compositions chosen. Emphasis will be on music-analytical interpretations of complete works with particular focus on relationships between performance and analysis, and between structural-technical descriptions, social-cultural contexts, and expressive meaning. Choice of repertoire will be geared in part to the interests of class participants and will also involve some attention to works of women.

Analytical perspectives and methods will include functional-tonal and voice-leading sketches; formal-proportional relationships; rhythmic-metric relationships; textural, timbral, and registral analyses; motivic relationships; text-music relationships; relationships to earlier musical traditions and practices; hermeneutic considerations.

T545 is appropriate as an elective course for doctoral music students, for doctoral theory minors, and for masters students using music theory as a cognate. It allows for practice in analysis and analytical prose writing and will help prepare for the doctoral styles exam and the analysis component of doctoral documents and dissertations.

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