April 30: Polymodality

 

Discussion of Martins and Kaminsky.

 

Audio excerpts for April 30 and Assignment 3

 

Assignment 4 (due May 12):

Neo-Riemannian analysis

Guidelines in Word, score in pdf

Guidelines and score in pdf

 

Audio excerpts for April 30 and Assignment 4

 

Audio excerpts for May 7 and Assignment 5


Readings for May 7:

 

Richard Cohn, "Hexatonic Cycles," in Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Oxford University Press, 2012), 17–41.

 

Keith J. Waters and J. Kent Williams, "Modeling Diatonic, Acoustic, Hexatonic, and Octatonic Harmonies and Progressions in Two- and Three-Dimensional Pitch Spaces; or Jazz Harmony after 1960," Music Theory Online 16/3 (2010)