For Thursday–Friday, April 4–5 (UPDATED for Friday)

in assignments

Review the glossary of atonal terms, the resource on Analyzing 12-tone music, and the Analyzing atonal music resource, as necessary. Come to class Thursday with written questions about these resources or Wednesday’s class discussion on set classes.

Also, for Thursday, bring your scores to all the atonal and 12-tone pieces we have covered so far, in particular the Webern 5 Pieces for String Quartet, No. IV, and the Bartók “Diminished Fifth.”

For Friday:

Finish your study of “Play on Notes” by Milton Babbitt, trying to answer the question: is this an atonal piece, or a twelve-tone piece?

We will also be re-discussing the Ligeti article, “On Form in New Music” on Friday (sections I and II only). Re-read it and bring a copy of the article (in 299Shared) and your atonal/12-tone scores again on Friday.

(Please DO NOT make annotations to the file in 299Shared. That ruins the file for the rest of the class. Print it out, or copy and paste it to another location on your computer and manipulate that file.)