Music Theory 3A C

Through an analysis of selected musical works, the lectures consist of:
• Analysing and refreshing the definitions of concepts and methods of music analysis.
• Analysing the connections and co-dependence of the formal structure and musical components with focus on scales and chords.
• Learning about different compositional techniques, approaches and styles after 1900.
• Learning about and aural identification of the particularities of personal styles of selected composers of this period.
• Identifying connections between compositional techniques and approaches of different periods.
The seminar is intended for refreshing and deepening the knowledge about musical-theoretical disciplines and elements based on actual examples. It covers a concrete study of compositional techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries with the ability to analyse works and understand them in the historical context:
• Arnold Schönberg and dodecaphony;
• Alban Berg – dodecaphony and tonality;
• sound and structure with Anton Webern;
• harmony with Paul Hindemith,
• new function of folklore by Béla Bartók
• neo-classicism and polytonality (Stravinsky)
• neo-classicism and pantonality (Prokofiev)
Tutorial. History of polyphonic composition up to Bach:
• Notre Dame polyphony.
• 15th Century polyphony: Dufay, Ockeghem, Binchois, Isaac.
• Imitational polyphony around 1500: Josquin des Prés.
• 16th Century classical vocal polyphony: Palestrina.
• 17th Century polyphony: Schütz.
• Tonal counterpoint: J. S. Bach.

G. Pompe, Novi tokovi v glasbi 20. stoletja, Ljubljana 2016. COBISS.SI-ID - 286536192

V. Persichetti, Twentieth-century harmony, New York 1961. COBISS.SI-ID - 153479

K. O. Treibmann, Strukturen in neuer Musik, Leipzig 1981. COBISS.SI-ID - 17658632

D. de la Motte, Musikalische Analyse. Kassel 1968. COBISS.SI-ID – 13608960

R. P. Morgan, Twentieth-Century Music, New York 1991. COBISS.SI-ID - 28973666

H. Danuser, Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts: mit 108 Notenbeispielen, 130 Abbildungen und 2 Farbtafeln, Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft 7, Laaber 1984. COBISS.SI-ID - 20184321

Ch. Wünsch, Satztechniken im 20. Jahrhundert, Kassel 2009. COBISS.SI-ID - 40093026

D. de la Motte, Kontrapunkt: ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch, München 1981. COBISS.SI-ID - 4874760

T. Christensen (ur.), The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, Cambridge 2002. COBISS.SI-ID - 34445922