Syllabus - Analysis in Cultural Historical Contexts (Theory II) (23310)

Syllabus Analysis in Cultural Historical Contexts (Theory II) - 23310
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HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: Musicology Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Prof Yoel Greenberg Coordinator Email: yoel.greenberg@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesdays (by appointment) Teaching Staff: Prof Yoel Greenberg Course/Module description: The course will focus on theoretical approaches to musical analysis and theory, with an emphasis on music before the 20th century. We will learn how to approach tonal music through methods tother than the familiar harmonic analysis: we will study principles of voice leading, explore cognitive and pedagogical schemata, understand how music reflects social and cultural worlds while acquainting ourselves with the realm of semiotics, and follow the shift from a mechanistic aesthetic to an organicist approach, familiarizing ourselves with the fundamentals of the Schenkerian method. All of this while grappling with a wide variety of compositions from the early 18th century to the end of the 19th century. Course/Module aims: The students will become familiar with various theoretical approaches to the study of tonal music and will acquire tools for analyzing such music. Additionally, the students will become acquainted with a wide repertoire of masterpieces. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: see syllabus Attendance requirements(%): 90% Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Listening to music, reading and analysis of scores, and reading articles, while critically examining the relevance of the approach to the studied repertoire. Course/Module Content: Species counterpoint Form studies Schemata in galant music and beyond Semiotics and topic theory Schenkerian analysis Intro to corpus studies Required Reading: Excerpts from: Aldwell, Edward, Carl Schachter, and Allen Cadwallader. Harmony and voice leading. Cengage Learning, 2018. Caplin, William E. Classical form: A theory of formal functions for the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Oxford University Press, 1998. Hepokoski, James, and Warren Darcy. Elements of sonata theory: Norms, types, and deformations in the late-eighteenth-century sonata. Oxford University Press, 2006. Gjerdingen, Robert. Music in the galant style. OUP USA, 2007. Mirka, Danuta, ed. The Oxford handbook of topic theory. Oxford University Press, 2014. Cook, Nicholas. A guide to musical analysis. Oxford University Press, USA, 1994. White, Christopher. The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions. Taylor & Francis, 2022. Additional Reading Material: Grading Scheme : Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Home Exam / Referat 70 % Active Participation / Team Assignment 10 % Mid-terms exams 20 % Additional information:

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