Andy Brick, composer, conductor, symphonist


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01/16/06


HMU 415 Contemporary Music Theory

HMU 415 Contemporary Music Theory
Call #: Instructor: Brick A
11633 Credits: 3.00 - 3.00



DAY BEGINS ENDS BUILDING ROOM
TR 2:00PM-3:15PM Morton 101
This section is offered at: Hoboken Campus

Prerequisite(s):
HMU304




Course Objectives:

  • Develop the ability to create rhythmic and harmonic structures that extend beyond those found in common period triadic harmony.
  • Develop analytical ability to interpret the implementaion of 20th and 21st century techniques of music theory
  • Demonstrate clear understanding of non triadic voice leading. 
  • Apply non triadic voice leading. to written work. 
  • Apply 20th and 21st century techniques of music theory to written work.

Course Grading:

  • Homework 40%. (Pdf and mp3s Must be completed and submitted on time via email hmu415@gmail.com)
  • Quiz 1 10%
  • Midterm Composition 25%
  • Final Composition 25%

 

Textbooks: (Same for Theory I-IV)
Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice (Hardcover)
by Vincent Persichetti (Author)



Syllabus
 Class Designation Text Requirement
Supporting Materials
  1

Course Overview
Primary Materials and Procedures.
Scale Materials: Modes
TCH 31-43

contemp_theory_notes_01.html


  2 Scale Materials: Synthetic Scale Formations
TCH 43-61
  3 Scale Materials: Synthetic Scale Formations
TCH 43-61
  4 Triads and Triadic Cycles
TCH 66-81
  5

Quiz 1

Modes, Scale Materials and Triadic Cycles

  6 Chords by Fourths - Quartal Harmony
TCH 93-108
  7 Chords by Fourths - Quartal Harmony
TCH 93-108
  8 Voice leading to and from non-triadic harmonic structures.
Class notes with reference to TCH
  10 Voice leading to and from non-triadic harmonic structures.
Class notes with reference to TCH
  11 Chords by seconds and Clusters THC121-134
  12 Polychords THC 135-162
  13

Midterm Composition

Modes, synthetic scales, triadic cycles, quartal harmony, clusters and polychords and Voice leading to and from non-triadic harmonic structures
  14 Compound and Mirror Harmony
TCH 163-181 		contemp_theory_notes_09.html
  15 Advanced Concepts in Meter and Rhythm
Class notes with reference to TCH Chapter 10 212-222 		contemp_theory_notes_10.html
  16 Advanced Concepts in Meter and Rhythm
Class notes with reference to TCH Chapter 10 212-222 		contemp_theory_notes_10.html
  17 Planing and Pandiatonicism
Class notes with reference to TCH Ch 9 198-206 and Ch. 10 223-225 		contemp_theory_notes_11.html
  18 12 Tone Music & Serialism Pt. 1 contemp_theory_notes_12.html
  19 12 Tone Music & Serialism Pt. 2 contemp_theory_notes_13.html
  20 12 Tone Music & Serialism Pt. 3 contemp_theory_notes_14.html
  21

Final Composition

Compound and Mirror Harmony, Planing and Pandiatonicism , 12 Tone Serialism & Advanced Concepts in Meter and Rhythm

  22-End Final Composition Private Instruction with Prof. Andy