Atonality: Difference between revisions
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==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
====Readings==== | |||
* [https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/atonality-and-serialism.pdf ''Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People:'' "Atonality and Serialism"] | *Hutchinson, ''Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom:'' | ||
**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/Serialism.html Chapter 34: Serialism] | |||
*Shaffer, Wharton (eds.), ''Open Music Theory:'' | |||
**Twelve-Tone Theory: [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneBasics.html 1], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneOperations.html 2], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneIntervallicStructure.html 3], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicDerivation.html 4], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicInvariance.html 5], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicInvariance.html 6] | |||
*[http://academic.udayton.edu/PhillipMagnuson/soundpatterns/microcosms/serialism.html Magnuson, ''Sound Patterns:'' Serialism] | |||
*[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/atonality-and-serialism.pdf ''Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People:'' "Atonality and Serialism"] | |||
*Kelley, ''Introduction to Post-Tonal Music Analysis:'' | |||
**[http://robertkelleyphd.com/home/teaching/music-theory/intro-to-post-tonal-music-analysis/#12Tone "The Twelve-Tone Method"] | |||
**[http://robertkelleyphd.com/home/teaching/music-theory/intro-to-post-tonal-music-analysis/#matrix "The Matrix"] | |||
==Class Activities== | ==Class Activities== | ||
Revision as of 15:39, 31 July 2020
| This lesson is part of the Harmony category. |
Objectives
- Students will become familiar with the characteristics and techniques of atonality.
Resources
Readings
- Hutchinson, Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom:
- Shaffer, Wharton (eds.), Open Music Theory:
- Magnuson, Sound Patterns: Serialism
- Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People: "Atonality and Serialism"
- Kelley, Introduction to Post-Tonal Music Analysis:
Class Activities
- Discussion and definition of atonal composition, including Schoenberg’s twelve-tone row process
- Analysis of a twelve-tone row piece
- Composition of a short atonal piece
Assignments
- Twelve-tone row analysis of a written score