Dr. Neil Thornock Music 296 Music Theory IV Online Materials

Syllabus Handouts Handout 1 Handout 2 (dealing with ties in prime form) Composition 3 Rubric Learning Exercises Unit 1 1. Mod12 Arithmetic 2. Pitch Class Sets 3. Pitch CLass Sets and Intervals 4. Pitch Class Set Transpositions and Inversions 5. Pitch Class Intervals and Interval Classes 6. Webern - PCS Transposition and Inversion 7. Top Line, Packet p. 16 8. Bottom Line, Packet p. 16 9. Prime Form Tie-Breakers 10. Reading Response:       Listen to Schoenberg, Op. 11, No. 1       Read Musical Expressionism and Schoenberg’s Op. 11, No. 1       Write a short response paper (2-3 paragraphs) 11. Set Class Analysis:       Analyze Crumb, Nana, niño for set classes       Identify 1 inversion, 1 transposition, and 1 inclusion Unit 2 1. Reading Response: Thinking in Overtones 2. Packet p. 28: Write the overtone series for each given fundamental tone 3. Reading Response: pp. 29-31 4. Choose a brief hymn and harmonize it with pandiatonic harmonies 5. Reading Response: pp. 43-53 6. Reading Response: pp. 54-58 7. Label techniques used, pp. 62-63 Unit 3 1. Reading Response: pp. 64-67 2. Packet p. 71: 12-tone row exercise 3. The following is multi-part. One assignment’s worth for each letter. Do one or two or all of them. Listen to the piece on YouTube or Naxos. Identify the 12-tone row for the piece on p. 72 in the packet. A. Create a matrix. Matrix Chart B. Analyze the pitch in Mvt. 1. Get as far as you can. C. Analyze the pitch in Mvt. 4. Again, as far as you can.