Listen to Scriabin Etudes Op. 56, No. 4 and Op. 74, No. 4.
Supplementary materials for post-tonal review: Straus, Introduction to Post-tonal theory, chapter 1 Joseph N. Straus on Centric music; A Brief Guide to Mathematical theory Brief handout on post-tonal theory Gary Tucker's Brief Introduction to post-tonal theory
Assignment 1
Analysis of Scriabin Prelude, Op. 64, No. 1 (due April 13) Score Assignment posted on canvas
Audio
Excerpts for Class 1 and Assignment 1 Excerpts for Class 2 and Assignment 2
Scores: Debussy, "Les Collines d'Anacapri" and "Le vent dans la plaine" from Preludes, book I; L'Isle Joyeuse, "Cloches à travers les feuilles," from Images, book II.
Readings Class 2:
Clifton Callender, "Voice-Leading Parsimony in the Music of Alexander Scriabin," Journal of Music Theory, 42,:2, Neo-Riemannian Theory (1998), 219-33.
Dmitri Tymoczko, "Scale Networks in Debussy," Journal of Music Theory 48/2 (2004), 219–94.
Martins, José Oliveira, "Bartók's Polymodality: The Dasian and Other Affinity Spaces," Journal of Music Theory 59/2 (2015), 273–320.
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