T556 Summer Session II 1999

Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music (3 cr.)

Prof. Eric Lai (Visiting Faculty)

Daily 11:30-12:20 M271

Prerequisite:

T508. (T551 is recommended but not required.)

Goals

To undertake in-depth analyses of selected twentieth-century compositions. To consider different analytical approaches and published analyses related to the compositions studied. To complete analytical sketches that convey different musical and analytical perspectives.

Analytical Perspectives and Methods

Functional-tonal and voice-leading sketches, formal-proportional relationships, rhythmic-metric relationships; textural, timbral, and registral analyses, motivic relationships. Relationships to the past and to other musical traditions. Set-theoretic concepts for pitch-class space, pitch-space; serial procedures.

Requirements and Grading

Readings and class presentations
Assignments (e.g., analysis, article review, reaction paper, etc.)
Analysis paper

Bio

ERIC LAI, Ph.D., Indiana University. Has taught at Indiana University, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Hong Kong Baptist University. Currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Baylor University. Research interests: twentieth-century analysis, cross-cultural perspectives in music, history of theory, music of Chou Wen-chung, and contemporary Chinese music. Articles and reviews in Perspectives of New Music, Music Theory Spectrum, GAMUT, Indiana Theory Review, Asian Music, I.S.A.M. Newsletter, etc.; papers read at AMS, SMT, SEM, CHIME, and other international/national meetings. Former editor of Indiana Theory Review.

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