THMUS H511 — Honors Theory V: Music of the 20th Century and Beyond

4 credits
Fall
Jonathan Dawe

Prerequisite: THMUS H411 This course presents a survey of analytical approaches for post-tonal music from Modernism to the present day, and consists of three major units: 1) the rise of new scales and referential collections, such as new uses of modes, pentatonic, non-functional diatonic, whole-tone, octatonic, and “synthetic” collections; 2) pitch structures, including the study of set theory conventions, classical 12-tone methods, and the concept of pitch centricity; and 3) musical processes and design in music after 1950, including integral serialism, Neo-Romanticism, minimalism, process music, spectralism, and intercultural music.