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Representative
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Genres/Terms |
Related Assignment |
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Introduction,
Setting the stage (historical precursors) |
Bach
Prelude in C major Mozart
K331 Beethoven
5th Symphony, i Chopin
Nocturne, Op 9, no 2 |
Baroque,
Classical, Romantic Tonality,
Scales, Chords, Major/Minor, Consonance/Dissonance, Tension/Resolution,
Melody, Harmony (functional, deterministic), Motif, Structure (ABA;
home-away- home), Contrast/Continuity |
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Pitch
content: modality |
Satie Gymnopedie (dorian mode) Ravel Jeux
d'eau
(whole tone & pentatonic) Debussy Voiles (whole tone), Images, Livre 2 - 1. Cloches A Travers Les Feuilles
(whole tone), la cathedrale engloutie
(pentatonic) Bartok from Four Old Sorrowful Songs
(dorian mode) Grateful Dead Dark Star (mixolydian mode) The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows (mixolydian mode) John Coltrane India (mixolydian mode), My Favorite Things (mixolydian & dorian modes) Miles Davis Shhh/Peaceful
(mixolydian mode) The Meters Cissy Strut (mixolydian mode/pentatonic/blues) Kingston Trio Corey Corey
(mixolydian mode) |
Modes,
Whole Tone, Pentatonic, Blues Scale, Acid Rock, Modal jazz/rock, Funk |
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Pitch
content: atonality, polytonality/polymodality |
Milhaud Saudades
do Brasil (polymodality) Bartok Mikrokosmos
No. 105 (polytonality) Stravinsky Grand Chorale from The
Soldier's Tale (polytonality) Bartok, String Quartet No. 1, i Schonberg Op. 33a (12-tone), Nacht
from Pierrot Lunaire
(pitch class sets) Babbit Three
Compositions for Piano (12
tone serialism) Ligeti 10
Pieces for Wind Quintet (microtonality) Adam Domash
improvisation 1 Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys Machine Gun Deathwish Tailgate |
Dissonance
(mild to heavy), 2nd Viennese School, Serialism |
Bartok, Mikrokosmos
No. 105 score Design a 12-tone matrix assignment Dallapiccola, Simbolo |
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Rhythm |
Bartok The Chase (ostinato), Allegro Pizzicato
(string 4-tet IV), Six
Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (Mikrokosmos 153), Allegro Barbaro Stravinsky Harbingers of Spring, Dance of the Coachment & Grooms Ligeti Desordre, Piano Concerto, Galamb
Borong, Musica
Ricercata VII Herbie Hancock Chameleon The Meters Cissy Strut Hop Sauce Do You Know Grateful Dead Scarlet Begonias |
Syncopation,
Ostinato, Polyrhythm, Rock, funk |
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Texture/Energy |
Ligeti Piano Concerto, 10 Pieces for Wind Quintet,
Lontano,
String
Quartet #2, iii, Bartok From the Diary of a Fly Debussy Nuages Steve Reich Violin Phase Pendrecki Symphony
#1 Berio O
King Charlie Parker Donna Lee Miles Davis Shhh/Peaceful Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys Machine Gun Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta
Love Pink Floyd On the Run Death Wish Break the Chains Velvet Underground Black Angel's Death Song Van Halen Eruption |
Impressionism,
Acid Rock, Rock, Punk Rock, Distortion |
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Reinterpretation |
Tim Hardin If I Were a Carpenter Small Faces If I Were a Carpenter Beach Boys Wendy Descendants Wendy Dion Runaround Sue Dead Kennedys Kill the Poor |
Jazz,
Rock |
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Improvisation/Form |
Adam Domash
improvisation 1 John Coltrane Ascension, Edition I Grateful Dead The Other One Keith Jarret
Koln Concert Cecil Taylor Unit Holiday en Masque, Serdab Philip Glass Music with Changing Parts Litoslawski Chain
3 Sanchez-Gutierrez
M.E. in Memoriam |
Jazz,
Aleatoricism, Minimalism |
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Student
Presentations |
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