Readings
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)
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 2 Excerpts for Class 3
Readings Class 4:
Matthew Santa, "Defining Modular Transformations," Music Theory Spectrum 21:2 (1999): 200–29. Mappings to and from chromatic (mod12), octatonic (mod8), diatonic (mod7), whole-tone (mod6), and pentatonic (mod5) modular spaces in Bartók, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg.
Jonathan De Souza, Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, Cognition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Idiomaticsy and Instrumental Spaces, pp. 55–63.
Kurt Rosenwinkel's Retuned Guitar, pp. 88–97.
Instrumental affordances and embodied transformations.
Videos for De Souza readings
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