· Additional Materials: Midi Files Audio Clips Finale Files
Music Theory 4 is concerned with the study of music of the 20th century. You will study music by composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Copland, and Schoenberg. We will also address late 19th century music by Wagner and Mahler to a limited extent as well as being introduced to some aspects of jazz harmony. The first three weeks of the semester will be devoted to the study of the large forms of classical music, Rondo and Sonata form.
MUTH 3613 - Additional Materials
Link to a description of Rondo Form
Link to a description of Sonata Form
Score Anthology Supplements
| Bartok: Evening in Transylvania |
Audio
Clip (mp3 - 2.6 MB) |
Finale
Score |
| Haydn: Piano Sonata in D, Third Movement |
Audio
Clip (mp3 - 2.5 MB) |
Finale
Score |
| Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C Minor (Pathetique),
Mvmt. 2 |
Audio
Clip (mp3 - 5.6 MB) |
Finale
Score |
| Clementi: Sonatina in F Major, Mvmt 1 |
Audio
Clip (mp3 - 2.2 MB) |
Finale
Score |
| Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F minor, Op.2 #1,
Mvmt 1 |
Audio
Clip (mp3 - 3.5 MB) |
Finale
Score |
| Mozart: Piano Sonata in Bb, K. 570, Mvmt 1 |
Audio
Clip (mp3 - 6.3 MB) |
Finale
Score |
| Mozart: Symphony #40 - first movement |
Audio
Clip (mp3 - 8.2 MB) |
Finale
Score |
| Haydn: String Quartet; op76 #4 -
first movement |
Audio
Clip (mp3 - 7.1 MB) |
Score
(pdf) |
Copland's "Young Pioneers"
Persichetti's "Variation No. 5"
Maurice Ravel's Menuet from "Sonatine"
Claude Debussy's Saraband from "Pour le Piano"
Audio
File Links for Music Theory 4
Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" played by the Kronos String Quartet (mp3 - 3.5 MB)
Webern String Quartet Excerpt (mp3 235 KB)
Blues Licks examples performed (mp3 file) Blues Licks in Finale format
Finale Files for Music Theory 4
Spelling Pop Chords Notes (in Finale format)
Spelling Pop Chords Notes (in pdf format)
Spelling Pop Chords Worksheet #2
Spelling Pop Chords Worksheet #3
Blues Worksheet No. 1 assignment
Blues Chord Worksheet No. 2 assignmentPost-Romantic Composition assignment
Modern Chorales assignment
Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, Mvmt. 1
Jerry Goldsmith's Basic Instinct Theme Assignment
20th Century Harmonic Styles Worksheet
Ostinato Project Assignment
Polyrhythm Worksheet
Modal Folk Song Assignment
Fanfare Assignment
Elegy Assignment
Set Theory Worksheet
Webern String Quartet Analysis
Music excerpts with which you should be familiar
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Examples (Finale file) good examples of pan-diatonicism and diatonic polychords
Vincent Persichetti's March for Band (Finale file) - good example of polychords, both diatonic and chromatic combinations
Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik Example (Finale file) nice example of added tone chords
Paul Hindemith's A Swan (Finale file) - good example of quartal harmony
Stravinsky's Petrushka Examples (Finale file) nice example of pan-diatonicism and "Petrushka" poly-chord
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring "Dance of the Adolescents" (Finale file) the famous polychord and ostinato
Stravinsky's Sacrificial Dance from the Rite of Spring Example (Finale file) good example of dissonant added tone chords, and mixed meter
Alfredo Casella's "Siciliano" (Finale file) simple example of a modal triadic harmony in two modes with a few borrowed chords
Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" (pdf file) examples of octatonic melody and octatonic triads with a few bird calls
Debussy's "Girl with the Flaxen Hair" (pdf file) lots of pentaonic scales and extended tertian harmonies
Debussy's "Engulfed Cathedral" (pdf file) lots of modal triads with parallelism (planing)
Debussy's "Sails" (pdf file) good example of whole-tone music with a passage from the minor pentatonic
Rutter "Requiem" (pdf file) extended passage using the octatonic scale
Rutter "Lux Aeterna" (pdf file) extended passage using the lydian/mixolydian scale
Most of the links listed above are Finale files. To use them you will need either Finale or Finale NotePad. Finale NotePad is available as a FREE download. Click here to go to the Coda website to download this program. NotePad is OK to use but it is a very much "stripped down" version of Finale. If you don't own Finale the Music Computer Lab in Room 321 of the UA Music Building has it installed on all of the computers in the room, as well as midi keyboards attached to make it much easier to enter notes. To use these Worksheets you will need to download them to your computer.
In Windows just right click the name of the worksheet and follow the instructions that appear. On a Macintosh you should just click and drag the name of the Worksheet to your desktop. However on a Mac you may need to download an AppleScipt to convert the "creator type" of the file to one used by Finale. Simply put the file called "SetFinaleType" on your computer somewhere, and then drag the icon of the Worksheet you downloaded onto it, and it will magically change the icon's appearance to that of a Finale file. Click here to download the "SetFinaleType" AppleScript to your Macintosh.