April 9: Callendar and Tymoczko on Parsinomious Voice-Leading, Scales, Modes, Networks
Audio excerpts for 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.
Assignment 2 (due April 16):
Analysis of Debussy, "Ondine," Preludes for Piano, Book II, No. 8
Audio excerpts for April 16 and Assignment 2
Readings for April 16:
Ramon Satyendra, "An Informal Introduction to some Formal Concepts from Lewin's Transformational Theory," Journal of Music Theory 48 (2004), 99–141;
John Roeder, "Transformation in Post-Tonal Music,"Oxford Music Handbooks Online, Aug 2014.
Additional 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)