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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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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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The goal of this class is practical: to interrogate, make explicit, and thus to develop the powerful musical intuitions that are at work as you make sense of the music all around you. Reflecting, we will ask how this knowledge develops in ordinary and extraordinary ways.
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- music and theater arts
- music
- analysis
- description
- performance
- musical perception
- units of perception
- units of description
- composition
- melodies
- percussion pieces
- musical intuitions
- projects
- experiment
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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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