Headlam th402 Fall 2009

Dave Headlam
Professor of Music Theory

Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY 14604
office: (585) 274-1568
e-mail: dheadlam@esm.rochester.edu

Th402:
Post-Tonal Theory

Home

Lesson I: Intrepreting the Tonal Chords in a New Way
Example 1 (goes with Lesson 1)
Chopin online

Lesson II: Basic Cell Analysis
Webern op. 5/3 -- Use to help with assignment
(Choose piece - Webern, grouping - only choice, all voices, note names, voice arr)
Webern op. 5/3 score
Sound

Lesson III: Large Symmetrical Collections
Assignment 2 pdf
online analysis site
Liszt
Scriabin
Debussy
Schoenberg

Lesson IV: Small Symmetrical Collections
Assignment 3 pdf
Messiaen IV partial score Sounds:IV Sounds:V Sounds:VI Sounds:VIII

Lesson V: Inversional Balance and Bartok's MSPC

Lesson VI: Hyrid Piece: Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

Lesson VII: Set Theory

Assignment V: song V song XI

Lesson VIII: Alban Berg Wozzeck, and Rhythmic Cycles
Assignment VI
online rhythmic weights program
online analysis program

Twelve-Tone and Serial Primer

Machaut: Ma fin est mon commencement

piece from 1200's in which upper two voices are the same melody forwards and backwards, or in P and R, and cantus voice is a palindrome

L'homme arme, mass by Ockeghem, Kyrie

piece based on a melody

Gesualdo: Moro lasso

highly chromatic sections: C#, a, B, G (missing only A# from aggregates)

Dylan Thomas reading "Do not Go gentle"

Stravinksy's Dylan Thomas In Memorium

Webern, Symphony op. 21