Readings

Robert Hasegawa, "Tone Representation and Just Intervals in Contemporary Music," Contemporary Music Review 25/3 (2006): 263–81.

Robert Hasegawa, “Gérard Grisey and the ‘Nature’ of Harmony,” Music Analysis 28/ii-iii (2009): 349–71.

Presentations on the Basic Concepts of Spectral Music: Spectral Concepts 1, Spectral Concepts 2

Assignments

4. Five excerpts for Neo-Riemannian analysis
Assignment posted on canvas; due May 18; also available for download
5.Two excerpts for microtonal analysis; scores
Assignment posted on canvas; due June 1; also available for download

Supplemental Readings:

Robert Hasegawa, “Just intonation: an aesthetic and theoretical renewal” in Théorie et composition musicales au vingtième siècle, ed. Nicolas Donin and Laurent Feneyrou (Lyon: Symétrie, 2013), 1499–1531..
Robert Hasegawa, “Clashing Harmonic Systems in Haas’s Blumenstück, and in vain,” Music Theory Spectrum 37:2 (2015): 204–23.
Myles Skinner, “Introduction to Quarter-tone Music” and “Appendix on Quarter-tone note names," “Toward a Quarter-Tone Syntax: Selected Analyses of Works by Blackwood, Hába, Ives, and Wyschnegradsky.” PhD diss., Graduate School at the University at Buffalo. 2006.
William Sethares, Table of Scales from Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale (London: Springer, 2005).
Manfred Stahnke, "Neue Skalen: Ein Essay über neue Denkweisen um György Ligeti in Hamburg und außerhalb,” in Für György Ligeti: Die Referate des Ligeti-Kongresses Hamburg 1988 C. Floros, , H. J. Marx, P. Peterson, edits, (Laaber 1991), pp. 259–76.
Daniel J. Wolf, “Alternative tunings, alternative tonalities” Contemporary Music Review 22/1, (2003): 2–14.
Hans Rudolf Zeller, “Mikrointervalle in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts Musik-Konzepte Sonderband Muike der anderen Tradition," in Mikrotonale Tonwelten Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn, eds. (Munich: edition text+kritik, 2003).(German).