April 16: Transformational Theory
Discussion of Satyendra and Roeder.
Audio excerpts for April 16 and Assignment 2
Assignment 3 (due April 30):
Analysis of Webern, Op. 5, No. 3
Audio excerpts for for April 23 and Assignment 3
Readings for April 23:
Michael Siciliano, "Two Neo-Riemannian Analyses," College Music Symposium 45 (2005), 81-107;
Daniel Harrison, "Remarks on Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis," The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories (Oxford University Press, 2011), 564–77.
Additional Readings:
Richard Cohn, "Neo-Riemannian Operations, Parsimonious Trichords, and Their "Tonnetz" Representations," Journal of Music Theory 41/1 (1997), 1–66.
Richard Cohn, "Introduction to Neo-Riemannian Theory: A Survey and a Historical Perspective," Journal of Music Theory 42/2 (1998), 167–80.
John Roeder and Scott Alexander Cook, "Triadic Transformation and Parsimonious Voice Leading in Some Interesting Passages by Gavin Bryars," Intégral 20 (2006), 43-67.