Module MUSI52130: The Theory and Practice of Analysis

Department: Music

MUSI52130: The Theory and Practice of Analysis

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• A survey of influential critical and analytical schools of thought from the point of view of the theorist, matched by training in the specific application of specific analytical techniques. Students will explore Schenkerian harmonic reduction and Fortean Set Theory in the context of the tonal and early atonal musical repertoire.

Content

• The origins of harmonic and motivic analysis; Schenkerism and post-Schenkerism; implication/realisation models; music psychology and cognition; ideology and organicism; semiotics of music; analysis and compositional process. The study of diminutions, unfoldings, linear progressions and the interaction of counterpoint and musical form. Forte: familiarity with integer notation, pitch and interval class manipulations, similarity relationships, Z- and Kh- relationships.

Learning Outcomes

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Regular assignments of reading and study arising from classes.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University