Notes on the Table
Citations in the Musical Works column include links to online public domain scores and suggested recordings.
- Scores: the link on a work's title goes to the relevant page at the Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP).
- Recordings: the small Amazon logo before the citation is a link to the recording at Amazon.com.
LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS | MUSICAL WORKS (SCORES & RECORDINGS) |
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I: Introduction | |||
1-4 |
What is musical analysis? Writing about music |
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis. "Haydn, Pianoforte Sonata in E Flat, No. 1." In Essays in Musical Analysis: Chamber Music. Vol. VII. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1944, pp. 93-104. Harris, Ellen. "Ground Bass Techniques." Chapter 8 in Henry Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas'. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 107, and 116-119. ISBN: 9780193152533. Epstein, David. "Rhythmic/Metric Structure: Examples." Chapter 3 in Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance. New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1995. ISBN: 9780028733203. Kerman, Joseph. "The Razumovsky Quartets." Chapter 5 in The Beethoven Quartets. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1979. ISBN: 9780393009095. |
Haydn, Franz Joseph. Piano Sonata No. 52 in E flat, 1st movement. Purcell, Henry. "Dido's Lament" ('When I am laid in earth', no. 37) from Dido and Aeneas. Haydn, Franz Joseph. Symphony No. 101 in D major, Movement III (Minuet). Beethoven, Ludwig van. String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2, 1st movement. Analysis examples: see study materials. |
II: Rhythm and phrase | |||
5-8 |
Meter, rhythm, grouping, phrase. Musical form: Period, section, 'binary' and 'rounded binary' form |
Cooper, Grosvenor, and Leonard B. Meyer. "Definitions and Principles," and "Rhythms on Lower Architectonic Levels." Chapters 1 and 2 in The Rhythmic Structure of Music. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1963. ISBN: 9780226115221. Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray Jackendoff. "Introduction to Rhythmic Structure." Chapter 2 in A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780262621076. Cone, Edward T. "The Picture and the Frame: The Nature of Musical Form." Chapter 1 in Musical Form and Musical Performance. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1968. ISBN: 9780393097672. |
Schumann, Robert. Excerpts from Kinderszenen, Op. 15. Haydn, Franz Joseph. Symphony No. 101 in D major, Movement III (Minuet). The "London" Symphonies: nos. 100-104. New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein. Sony Classical, 1992. Analysis examples: see study materials. |
III: Melody and line | |||
9-12 |
Melodic prolongation; contrapuntal, decorative tones versus structural tones; 'reduction' |
Christ, William, et al. "Basic Melody," and "Melodic Elaboration." Chapters 7 and 8 in Materials and Structure of Music, vol. 1. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980. ISBN: 9780135604175. Forte, Allen, and Steven E. Gilbert. "Melodic Diminutions." Chapter 1 in Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1982. ISBN: 9780393951929. |
Bellini, Vincenzo. Norma, Act I, scene 4, Scena e Cavatina, "Casta Diva." Chopin, Frederic. Etude in F minor, Op. 25, No. 2. ———. Prelude Op. 28, No. 6 in B minor. Bach, J. S. Two Part Invention, No. 13, BWV 784, in A Minor. Analysis examples: see study materials. |
IV: Harmony and voice leading | |||
13-14 |
Harmonic prolongation 1 (local) |
Schenker, Heinrich. "Scale-Steps and Harmony," and "Scale-Step and Counterpoint." Chapters 1 and 2 of Section II "Theory of Scale-Steps" in Harmony. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780226737348. |
Bach, J. S. Motet "Jesu, meine Freude" (BWV 227) ———. Chorale Preludes I (Orgelbüchlein) "Jesu, meine Freude" (no. 12, BWV 610) |
15-16 |
Harmonic prolongation 2 (large scale, modulation) |
Salzer, Felix. "Structure and Prolongation I," and "Structure and Prolongation II." Chapters 5 and 6 in Structural Hearing. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1962. ISBN: 9780486222752. (View this work in Google Books.) |
Mozart, Wolfgang A. Piano Sonata in A major, K. 331. Schumann, Robert. "Wenn ich in deiner Augen seh," from Dichterliebe, Op. 48. Analysis examples: see study materials. |
V: Motive and theme | |||
17-18 |
Melodic/rhythmic/harmonic characteristics; motivic transformation; 'Basic shape' (Grundgestalt) |
Reti, Rudolph. "The Thematic Plan of the Ninth Symphony," and "Schumann's Kinderszenen: A 'Theme with Variations.'" Chapters 1 and 2 in The Thematic Process In Music. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press Reprint, 1978. ISBN: 9780837198750. (Reprint of Faber & Faber 1961.) Epstein, David. Beyond Orpheus: Studies in Musical Structure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979, chapters 2 and 3. ISBN: 9780262550543. |
Brahms, Johannes. "Intermezzo No. 2 in A," from 6 Klavierstücke, Op. 118. Schumann, Robert. "Wenn ich in deiner Augen seh," from Dichterliebe, Op. 48. ———. Excerpts from Kinderszenen, Op. 15. Analysis examples: see study materials. |
19-20 |
Oral presentations |
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VI: Sonata form | |||
21-23 |
Sonata form |
Berry, Wallace. "Sonata." Chapter 6 in Form in Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985. ISBN: 9780133292855. Rosen, Charles. "Theories of Form." Chapter 2 in The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. Expanded ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co, 1998. ISBN: 9780393317121. |
Beethoven, Ludwig van. Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 ("Kreutzer "), first movement. |
VII: Program music | |||
24-25 | Program music | Kivy, Peter, et al. "Symposium: On Kivy's Philosophy of Music." Journal of Aesthetic Education 27, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 1-29. |
Strauss, Richard. Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24. Analysis examples: see study materials. |