Tonality: Theory and Analysis

MUSC10022 Tonality: Theory and Analysis 10 Semester 2 Undergraduate Level 1 Sarah Moynihan Unit coordinator Music 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' First part HE study/Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 5.0 This is an analytical course principally concerned with late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century chamber and vocal music with additional examples from film music soundtracks and popular music. It examines aspects of form, harmony, motivic working and text-setting with a view to developing students' abilities to understand and write about complex musical works. The course also aims to expand the student’s understanding of theoretical approaches to tonality in Western art music of this period.In this way, it builds on the foundations laid in ‘Tonality, Form and Harmony’ in the first semester and aims to increase the student’s understanding of the language, structure, and expressive content of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century tonal music, and so to enhance their response to it as a listener, analyst and as a performer. This is an analytical course principally concerned with late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century chamber and vocal music with additional examples from film music soundtracks and popular music. It examines aspects of form, harmony, motivic working and text-setting with a view to developing students' abilities to understand and write about complex musical works. The course also aims to expand the student’s understanding of theoretical approaches to tonality in Western art music of this period.In this way, it builds on the foundations laid in ‘Tonality, Form and Harmony’ in the first semester and aims to increase the student’s understanding of the language, structure, and expressive content of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century tonal music, and so to enhance their response to it as a listener, analyst and as a performer. This unit aims:<ul><li>To increase students’ understanding of the harmonic and formal structure and the expressive content of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century tonal music; To improve students’ music-analytical skills;</li><li>To give students the fundamental tools to undertake their own analysis;</li><li>To familiarise students with analytical techniques for analysing Western tonal music;</li><li>To prepare students for undertaking level 2 and 3 analytical courses.</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul><li>Understand the harmonic, thematic, and formal structure of tonal music;</li><li>Demonstrate knowledge of various music-analytical methods appropriate for tonal repertoire of both instrumental and vocal genres;</li><li>Show how stylistically sensitive analytical and interpretative techniques and strategies can be applied to selected compositions.</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul><li>Demonstrate increased knowledge of a range of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century repertoires;</li><li>Analyse a range of Western score-based music using accepted models;</li><li>Comprehend theoretical nomenclature and assess its relevance;</li><li>Apply theoretical approaches to a specific musical composition or extract;</li><li>Construct analyses of short tonal works.</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul><li>Annotate a musical score with relevant analytical symbols;</li><li>Understand and create a variety of analytical tables and figures;</li><li>Demonstrate their ability to employ specialist terminology and musical notation to analyse a given work;</li><li>Write a piece of analytical prose.</li></ul> By the end of this course students will be able to:<ul><li>Demonstrate enhanced analytical skills;</li><li>Demonstrate aesthetic awareness;</li><li>Employ technical vocabulary for analytic and descriptive purposes;</li><li>Exhibit attention to detail.</li></ul> Analytical skills Analysing repertoire, texts and other materials Group/team working Collaborating with peers in workshops; Project management Preparing for exam throughout the semester; Oral communication Seminar discussion; Problem solving Fulfilling set task with set resources for the workshops; Other Interpersonal skills: working productively with other students, tutors, and lecturers Lectures, workshops, consultation hours, eLearning. 0 Other 100% <table class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse:collapse; border:none"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid black; width:200px; padding:0cm 7px 0cm 7px; border-top:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black" valign="top">Assessment Task</td> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid black; width:200px; padding:0cm 7px 0cm 7px; border-top:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:none" valign="top">Formative or Summative</td> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid black; width:200px; padding:0cm 7px 0cm 7px; border-top:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:none" valign="top">Weighting</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid black; width:200px; padding:0cm 7px 0cm 7px; border-top:none; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black" valign="top">Exam</td> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid black; width:200px; padding:0cm 7px 0cm 7px; border-top:none; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:none" valign="top">Summative</td> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid black; width:200px; padding:0cm 7px 0cm 7px; border-top:none; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:none" valign="top">100%</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  Oral feedback on tasks given in workshops;Peer feedback in workshops;Additional one-to-one feedback (during consultation hour or by making an appointment).Peer-marked formative assessment. MUSC10011 Tonality: Form and Harmony Pre-Requisite Compulsory MUSC10022 has co requisite of MUSC10011Free choice (UG), but please note the pre-requisite of MUSC10011 BA(Hons) Music & Drama BA(Hons) Music & Drama First Year Optional MusB(Hons) MusB (Hons) Music First Year Optional MusB(Hons) (joint with RNCM) MusB(Hons) (joint with RNCM) First Year Optional BA Film and Music BA Film and Music First Year Optional Y Cohn, Richard L., ‘“As Wonderful as Star Clusters”: Instruments for Gazing at Tonality in Schubert’,              19th-Century Music, 22/iii (1999), pp. 213–32.Hepokoski, James, and Warren Darcy, Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations               in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).Hyland, Anne M., ‘Rhetorical Closure in the First Movement of Schubert’s String Quartet in C major,              D46: a Dialogue with Deformation’, Music Analysis, 28/i (2009), 111–142.Kinderman, William, and Harald Krebs, eds., The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality               (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).Kopp, David, Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-century Music (Cambridge: Cambridge               University Press, 2002).Krebs, Harald, ‘Alternatives to Monotonality in Early Nineteenth-Century Music’, Journal of Music               Theory, 25/i (1981), 1-16.Rosen, Charles, The Romantic Generation (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995).Schmidt-Beste, Thomas, The Sonata. Cambridge Introductions to Music (Cambridge: Cambridge                University Press, 2011).Stein, Deborah, and Robert Spillman, Poetry into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder (Oxford:                Oxford University Press, 1996). Lectures 11 Practical classes & workshops 5 0 84