Music 408 - Analysis of Music Form

Spring 2013

LIST OF TERMS DISCUSSED IN CLASS

• Additive synthesis
• Aleatory music
• Chance music
• Combinatoriality (hexachordal)
• Class of compositions
• Concept Art (Music)
• Dadaism
• Domains technique
• Existentialism
• Fibonacci series of numbers; golden mean
• Game theory
• Granular synthesis and wavelets
• "Graphic" notation or "graphic pieces"
• Group theory
• Happenings
• Hauptstimme
• Heterophony
• I Ching
• Indeterminacy
• Integral or total serialism
• Klangfarbenmelodie
• Markov chains
• Microtonal music
• MIDI
• Minimalism
• Mode with limited transpositions
• "Momente" form
• Musique concrete
• Nebenstimme
• Non-retrogradable rhythm
• Open Works (Umberto Eco)
• Partials/Overtones
• Pointillism
• Proportional notation
• Serial music
• Set forms
• Sieves
• Sound mass
• Sound parameters
• "Square root" method (Cage)
• Stochastic music, stochastic distributions
• Structuralism
• Textkomposition
• Tone-row music
• Tone-row matrix

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