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Music 150C: Calendar and Assignments :
Date
Concepts to Learn
Literature
Projects, mostly due Wednesdays
WEEK 1
Overview of harmony, melody, and counterpoint.
Anton Reicha
“Treatise on Melody” (excerpt)
M
30-Mar
Ellis Koss
Exercise 1:
W
1-Apr
Ben Carson
Your favorite melody
WEEK 2
Voice independence, well-formedness, and mobility.
E. C. Jacquet de la Guerre
F
3-Apr
The Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook
Exercise 2:
M
6-Apr
(Excerpts: Dance Suite Movements)
Sentence completions, baroquization
WEEK 3
Error correction, phrase structures, free counterpoint, and essential intervals.
Bach
W
8-Apr
Anna Magdalena Bach, cont.
Analysis: “essential intervals” [Wed Apr 16]
F
10-Apr
M
13-Apr
Robert Gauldin
Exercise 3: two-part writing
WEEK 4
Cadential structures, continued. 3:1 and 4:1 counterpoint; extension and Elaboration.
Battista, Uccellini, Tuma
W
15-Apr
Trio Sonatas (Allegro Mvts.)
Composition 1: “Dance Suite Movement” [Wed Apr 29]
F
17-Apr
M
20-Apr
Kennan 5
Busoni edition: Inventions 1, 5, 9, and 14 [ pdf ]
WEEK 5
Imitation and canon.
Bach, Handel, Vivaldi
W
22-Apr
Kennan 8-9
Exercise 4: canonic imitation
F
24-Apr
M
27-Apr
Analysis: “real and tonal transposition”
WEEK 6
Advanced topics: invention expositions, ornamental chromaticism, rhythmic independence.
Bach
W
29-Apr
Art of the Fugue: Canons
F
1-May
Exercise 5: invertible counterpoint / Invention drafts
M
4-May
[ Read Ch 10, pp 126-132, i.e. pp 31-37 of the pdf ]
WEEK 7
Review and performances. Three-part writing, syncopation
W
6-May
Gauldin 11, 12
F
8-May
Sinfonias, Preludes
M
11-May
Organize rehearsals for a class performance of one of your first two projects.
Composition 2: “Two-part Invention” [Mon May 18]
WEEK 8
Fugue: exposition procedures, three-part writing with ‘tall chords’
W
13-May
F
15-May
Well-tempered Clavier
M
18-May
Fugue 16 (G minor)
Exercise 6: extension and episode
WTC Book II: Fugue 18 (G# minor)
WEEK 9
Fugue, continued; complex sequences, stretto, Beethoven’s Great Fugue
W
20-May
Kennan 16
Fugue Expositions turned in for feedback [due Wednesday June 3]
F
22-May
Well-tempered Clavier, Cantatas
W*
27-May
*Monday the 25th is a holiday
WEEK 10
Review and performances
F
29-May
TBA
M
1-Jun
W
3-Jun
F
5-Jun
Fugue 16 (G minor)
WTC Book II: Fugue 18 (G# minor)
FINAL EXAM
Wed
10-Jun
12:00 NOON -3:00 PM
FINAL PROJECT: “Prelude and Fugue” [Wednesday Jun 10, 7 pm]