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Through a progressive series of composition projects, this course investigates the sonic organization of musical works and performances, focusing on fundamental questions of unity and variety. Aesthetic issues are considered in the pragmatic context of the instructions that composers provide to achieve a desired musical result, whether thes
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- music and theater arts
- music
- improvision
- form
- structure
- notation
- musical score
- performance
- composer
- listening
- melody
- rhythm
- harmony
- sound
- meter
- syncopation
- consonance
- dissonance
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In this subject we will study the basic harmonic, melodic, and formal practices of western music, principally the classical music of central Europe during the eighteenth century. Topics will include diatonic harmony, simple counterpoint in two parts, and tones of figuration. The coursework will combine composition, listening, analysis, and
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- music and theater arts
- music
- harmony
- counterpoint
- melody
- formal practices
- western music
- classical music
- central europe
- eighteenth century
- diatonic harmony
- tow parts
- tones of figuration
- composition
- listening
- analysis
- sight-singing
- keyboard musicianship
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In this subject, we explore the harmonic, melodic, and formal practices of western music, principally the so-called "Classical" idiom of central Europe, ca. 1750-1825. Topics include a quick review of material covered in 21M.301, chromatic harmony (viio7, bII6, and chords of the augmented sixth), and chromatic modulation; lecture study and
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- music and theater arts
- harmony
- counterpoint
- melody
- formal practices
- western music
- classical
- idiom
- central europe
- 1750?1825
- chromatic harmony
- chromatic modulation
- keyboard laboratory
- sight-singing laboratory
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Written and analytic exercises based on 18th- and 19th-century small forms and harmonic practice found in music such as the chorale preludes of Bach; minuets and trios of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; and the songs and character pieces of Schubert and Schumann. Musicianship laboratory is required.
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- music and theater arts
- composition
- composing
- listening
- form
- structure
- harmony
- melody
- rhythm
- motif
- theme
- voicing
- chord
- scale
- cadence
- tonality
- tonal music
- phrasing
- canon
- classical music
- chamber music
- aesthetics
- musical analysis
- romantic music
- romantic poetry
- lieder
- string quartet
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This course builds on the composition techniques practiced in 21M.303 Writing in Tonal Forms I. Students undertake further written and analytic exercises in tonal music, including a sonata-form movement for string quartet. Students will also have the opportunity to write short works that experiment with the expanded tonal techniques of the
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- music and theater arts
- composition
- composing
- listening
- form
- structure
- harmony
- melody
- rhythm
- motif
- theme
- voicing
- chord
- scale
- cadence
- tonality
- tonal music
- atonal music
- phrasing
- canon
- classical music
- chamber music
- aesthetics
- musical analysis
- string quartet
- prokofiev
- sonata form
- haydn
- mozart
- beethoven
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This class is an introduction to the analysis of tonal music. Students develop analytical techniques based upon concepts learned in 21M.301-21M.302. Students study rhythm and form, harmony, line and motivic relationships at local and large scale levels of musical structure. Three papers (totaling 20 pages, one to be revised) and one oral pr
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- music and theater arts
- composition
- composing
- listening
- form
- structure
- harmony
- melody
- rhythm
- musicology
- motive
- theme
- voicing
- chord
- scale
- cadence
- tonality
- tonal music
- phrasing
- canon
- symphony
- sontata
- classical music
- chamber music
- aesthetics
- schenker
- schenkerian analysis
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