MUSC 306-01: Topics in Advanced Musical Analysis

General Resources

Readings

I. Parametric Analysis – Towards A Global Approach

Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot: Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music (ML)*

Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot: Sonic Design - workbook (ML)*

Robert Cogan: New Images of Musical Sound (ML)*

Pierre Boulez: Music Today (ML)

Pierre Boulez: Orientations (ML)

Jonathan Kramer: The Time of Music (ML)

Olivier Messiaen: The Technique of My Musical Language (ML)

Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff: A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (ML)*

II. Schenkerian Analysis

Allen Cadwallader and David Gagnè: Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach (ML)*

Allen Forte and Steven Gilbert: An Introduction To Schenkerian Analysis (ML)*

Maury Yeston: Readings in Schenkerian Analysis and Other Approaches (ML)*

Heinrich Schenker: Free Composition (Die Frei Satz) (ML)*

Heinrich Schenker: Five Graphic Music Analysis (ML)*

Steven Porter: Schenker Made Easy (ML)

Jacob Gran: “Schenkerian Analysis” (7 Episodes on YouTube) (WS)*

Jacob Gran: “How To Read A Schenker Graph” (on YouTube) (WS)*

Edward Aldwell and Carl Schachter: Counterpoint in Composition (ML)*

III. Jazz Theory, Schenkerian & Other Approaches to the Analysis of Jazz

Barry Nettles and Richard Graf: The Chord Scale Theory and Jazz Harmony (ML)*

Paul Berliner: Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art Of Improvisation (ML)*

Frank Tirro: Jazz: A History (ML)*

Steve Larson: “Analysing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach” (WS)*

Steve Larson: “Schenkerian Approach to Modern Jazz” (WS)*

Annual Review of Jazz 9, 1997-1998 (WS)*

Rich Pellegrin: “Schenkerian vs. Salzerian Analysis of Modern Jazz” (WS)

Gary Burton: “Jazz Scales For Improvisation That You Must Know” (WS)

Ingrid Monson: Freedom Sounds (ML)*

Robert Walser: “Out of Notes: Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis” (WS)

Gunther Schuller: “Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation” (WS)

IV. Global and Trans-Cultural Studies

George Ruckert: Music of North India (ML) *

Lisa Gold: Music in Bali (ML)*

Barry Nettles ed.: Excursions in World Music (ML)*

Nazir Jairazbhoy: The Rags Of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution (ML)*

Lawrence Schuster: “Global Possibilities- An Interview With Composer-Theorist Robert Cogan” (WS)*

Shirish Korde: “Applications of Contemporary Music Notational Techniques To Ethnomusicological Analysis” (WS)

Shirish Korde: “North Indian Alap- An Analytic Model” (WS)*

Carl Clemente: “John Coltrane and the Integration of Indian Concepts in Jazz Improvisation” (WS)

Amy Simon: “Shakuhachi Honkyoku - Motivic Analysis of Sakao Reibo” (WS)*

Priyanka Venkatesh: “Discovering India In Western Art Music” (WS)*

Richard Steinetz: “György Ligeti-Music of the Imagination” (ML)

Martin Scherzinger: “György Ligeti and the Aka Pygmies Project” (WS)*

Gerard Kubik: “The Theory of African Music” (ML)*

Chris Arrell: “Pushing The Envelope : An Analysis of Gerard Grisey's Partiels” (WS)

Francois Rose: “Introduction to the Pitch Organization of Spectral Music” (WS)

Assignment Guides

Assignment Guide 1 (September 1-8) Link
Assignment Guide 2 (September 8-15) Link
Assignment Guide 3 (September 15-22) Link

  • Readings for Assignment Guide 3:
    Allen Forte, “Schenker’s Conception of Musical Structure” - Link
    Ernst Oster, “Register and the Large Scale Connection” - Link

Assignment Guide 4 (September 22-29) Link
Assignment Guide 5 (October 20-27) Link
Assignment Guide 6 (November 3 and 10) Link

Video Resources

Jacob Gran’s 7 Part YouTube Series, Number 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6R5C4iy1Qg

Jacob Gran How to Read a Schenker Graph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klzgVIho9Zk

PBS video on The Golden Section, Divine Proportions, and The Fibonacci Numbers: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1257215997763405

Scores

Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 16 in C Major K. 545 - Link

Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 11 in A Major K. 331 - Link

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 1 in F minor Op. 2 No. 1 - Link

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 21 in C Major op 53, “Waldstein” - Link

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 10 in G Major op. 14 no. 2 - Link

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 30 in E Major op 109 - Link

Chopin: Opus 28 Preludes, no. 4 in E Major, no. 7 in A Major, and no. 15 in D-flat Major (“Raindrops”) - Link

Chopin: Revolutionary Etude op. 10 no. 12 - Link

Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu in C-sharp minor, op. 66 - Link

Schubert: Der Doppelgänger and Ständchen, D. 957 - Link

Liszt/Schubert: Ständchen from Schwanengesang D. 957 - Link

Handel: Lascio ch’io pianga from Rinaldo - Link

Brahms: Symphony no. 3, full score link and piano reduction link

Mahler: Symphony no. 3 - Link