Tuesday Thursday

Schedule Topics Analysis or Reading

Week 1 | 8/31 & 9/2 Kaija Saariaho, NoaNoa

Pitch and Interval
Orit Hilewicz, “Reciprocal Interpretations of Music and Painting,”
Week 2 | 9/7 & 9/9 Elliott Carter, Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi
MTO 24.3.
Igor Stravinsky, Three Pieces for String Quartet
Week 3 | 9/14 & 9/16
Pitch-Class Sets
Rachel Lumsden, “You Too Can Compose”: Ruth Crawford’s
Week 4 | 9/21 & 9/23 Anton Webern, String Quartet, Op. 5, No. 3
Mentoring of Vivian Fine, MTO 23.2.

Week 5 | 9/28 & 9/30
Collections, Invariance,
Symmetry, Complements,
Week 6 | 10/5 & 10/7
Inclusion, TC, and
Contour
Week 7 | 10/12 & 10/14
Unsuk Chin, Piano Etude No. 6: “Grains”
Sky Macklay, Many, Many Cadences
Gyorgi Ligeti, Piano Etude No. 11, En Suspens
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, “Experiencing Chen Yi’s Music: Local and
Cosmopolitan Reciprocities in Ning for Pipa, Violin and Cello,” MTO
26.3
Brian Moseley, “Musique automatique? Adèsian Automata and the
Logic of Disjuncture” forthcoming, Cambridge University Press

Week 8 | 10/19 & 10/21 Thomas Ades, Totentanz (beginning)

Interval Cycles,
Week 9 | 10/26 & 10/28 Contextual Inversion,
Inversional Symmetry
Week 10 | 11/2 & 11/4
"Antares Boyle, “Flexible Ostinati, Groove, and Formal Process in
Notes
Craig Taborn’s Avenging Angel"
Segall, “Alfred Schnittke’s Triadic Practice,” Journal of Music
Jessie Montgomery, Break Away (divided up)
Theory, 243–287.

Week 11 | 11/9 & 11/11

Zachary Bernstein, “Duplicated Subdivisions in Babbitt’s It Takes

Week 12 | 11/16 & 11/18 Luigi Dallapiccola, Goethe Lieder, no. 2, “Die Sonne kommt!”
Twelve to Tango,“ MTO 17.2
Twelve-tone Theory
Week 13 | 11/23 & 11/25 Thanksgiving Break

Week 14 | 11/30 & 12/2 Ursula Mamlok, Panta Rhei (Time in Flux), iii

Week 15 | 12/7 & 12/9 Student Presentations

Pitch Structures Schedule

 Topic (from karpinski) Reading Performance Exercises Quizzes

Pitch Structures By Tuesday, Unless
Noted Tuesday Thursday

Week 1 | 8/26–8/30 Chapters 1 (by 8/27) and 2 (by MET, Exercise 1

8/29)

Week 2 | 9/2–9/6 Chapter1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 | The Chapter 3

Fundamentals of Meter and Rhythm and
Pitch; Error Detection
Week 3 | 9/9–9/13 Chapter 4 and 5 Dictation Quiz 1

Week 4 | 9/16–9/20 Chapter 6

Week 5 | 9/23–9/27 Chapter 7

Week 6 | 9/30–10/4 Chapter 8 Dictation Quiz 2

Chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10 | Notation and
Longer Dictation Singing From
Week 7 | 10/7–10/11 Chapters 9 and 10
Anthology Starts
Midterm Exam
Week 8 | 10/14–10/18 —
(10/17)

Week 9 | 10/21–10/25 Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11, 12, 14, 15, and 18 | The
Week 10 | 10/28–11/1 Fifteen Major Keys; Ties and Dots; Skips to ti Chapters 14 and 15
and re; Tempo; Chromatic Lower Neighbors
Week 11 | 11/4–11/8 Chapter 18 Dictation Quiz 3

Week 12 | 11/11–11/15 Chapters 16 and 17

Week 13 | 11/18–11/22 Chapters 16 ,17, and 19| Compound Chapter 19

Meters; Minor Mode; Chromaticism through
borrowing

Week 14 | 11/25–11/29 Review — No Class Dictation Quiz 4

Week 15 | 12/2–12/6 —

Exam Week Aural Final Exam (12/12, 11:45–2:45)

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