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