Music 408 E

Lecture Notes

Spring 2013

Recapitulation

• Tonal System
• Tone-row music I: matrix; Schoenberg - Variations for Orchestra Op.31
  • score excerpt (pdf) ]
  [ Tone-row II: Berg - Violin Concerto
  • score excerpts (pdf) ]
  [ Tone-row III: Webern
  • Variations Op. 27 score excerpts (pdf) ]
• John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes, First Sonata (pdf)
  • Wikipedia article
• Pierre Schaeffer - Etude aux chemins de fer (YouTube)

[ Integral serialism I
• Messiaen - Modes de valeurs et d'intensitees (pdf)
• Boulez - Structures Ia ]
• Boulez - Schoenberg Is Dead and Incipit
• Ligeti article, fragment (pdf)
[ Integral serialism II
• Le marteau sans maitre - text (pdf)
• Le marteau sans maitre: "domains" and score fragments (pdf) ]
• Le marteau sans maitre - from the first movement(pdf)
• Le marteau sans maitre - from the third movement(pdf)
• ...how time passes... (pdf)
• Electro-acoustic Music I

• Chace Music and John Cage
  • Indeterminacy; Chance Music
• Aleatory Music
  • Aleatory music
• Stochastic Music
  • Music and Mathematics
  • Mathematical Tools in Music I
  • Computer-assisted Composition

• Computer Sound Synthesis I

• Textkomposition
• Conceptual music
• Microtonality

• Mathematical Tools in Music II
• Computer Sound Synthesis II
• Spectral Music

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