From Advancing Music Theory
Objectives
- Students will be familiar with different types of metrical dissonance and their use in music.
- Students will be familiar with different methods of interrupting or changing the meter of a musical composition.
- Students will be familiar with syncopated rhythms and their effects, including anticipation of the beat
Resources
Class Activities
- Discussion and definition of tuplets, asymmetrical meter, hemiola and changing meter
- Identification and analysis of different types of metrical dissonance in music of different styles
- Discussion and definition of syncopation, isolated metric deviations like fermatas, ritardando and rubato, and stylistic deviations like swing
- Analysis of metric deviation in different types of music
- Performance of music with improvised metrical deviation
Assignments
- Identification and analysis of different types of metrical dissonance in music of different styles
- Identification and analysis of metric deviation in written and recorded music
Assessments
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