Listen to 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
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.
Assignment 2
Analysis of Debussy, "Ondine," Preludes for Piano, Book II, No. 8 Assignment posted on canvas; due April 20
Audio
Excerpts for Class 2 and Assignment 2Readings Class 3:
John Roeder, "Transformation in Post-Tonal Music,"Oxford Music Handbooks Online, Aug 2014.
Supplemental Readings:
Michael Cherlin, "On Adapting Theoretical Models from the Work of David Lewin," Indiana Theory Review, 14/2 (Fall 1993), 19-43;
Chapter One, Steven Rings, Tonality and Transformation (Oxford: Oxford Studies in Music Theory, 2011)
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