MUSI 4421 - 20th-Century Analysis

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MUSI 2222.
This course surveys 20th-century musical styles and theoretical systems, teaching students how to analyze a variety of works in which common-practice, classical tonality is missing or highly attenuated. Topics include free atonal works, serial works, integral serialism (post-1945), neoclassical works, allusion, electronic works, aleatoric works, and minimalistic works. The course prepares students to analyze music, write model compositions, and develop analytical papers.