GRMUS 671T — Hearing Post-Tonal Analyses

2 credits
Fall
Jonathan Dawe

“But can you hear it?” This course addresses this common inquiry regarding analysis and the music it claims to elucidate. Compositions of the 20th and 21st centuries are considered not only in the context of Post-Tonal analysis but to the degree that these observations can be construed in real time. As a result, formal concepts, Set Class, Transformation, Similarity Relationships, and Set Complex are studied and applied to compositions with the goal of developing new strategies for hearing and appreciation. Included in the investigations are works by Webern, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Seeger, Tower, Wuorinen, and others.