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Welcome - Ritual Reading of the Syllabus - Overview |
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Unit One: The Big Picture
Everyone will participate in Unit One large-group improvisations as a vocalist, even if you have no training. When you're assigned to participate in a small-group improvisation, you're free to choose your best instrument (where "instrument" includes your voice as an option). |
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What is "Music"? What is a "Score"? How are they Related?
Cook: "Music: An Imaginary Object" |
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Form and Proportion; Large-scale Rhythm and Phrase Rhythm (Special Guest: Jewlia Eisenberg, Composer-performer) |
Drill 1 (solo piece) |
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Speed, Volume, and Register
Quiz 1 |
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Timbre |
Revision of Drill 1 (trio piece) |
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Texture and Articulation |
Assignment 1 (duo piece) due |
Unit Two: Rhythm
Everyone will participate in Unit Two large-group improvisations as a percussionist, even if you have no training. You are responsible to procure or construct your own instrument no later than Lec #8 class meeting. When you're assigned to participate in a small-group improvisation, you're free to choose your best instrument (where "instrument" includes your voice as an option). |
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Symmetric Meter |
Assignment 2 (solo piece) due |
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Accent and Syncopation
Quiz 2 |
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Polyrhythm and Polymeter |
Assignment 3 (duo piece) due |
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Asymmetric Meter |
Assignment 4 (duo piece) due |
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Alternatives to Meter |
Assignment 5 (trio piece) due |
Unit Three: Melody and Harmony
Use your best instrument (or voice) for all improvisations, whether large-group or small-group. Instrumentalists: this means you must bring your instrument to every class meeting. |
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Consonance and Dissonance |
Assignment 6 (solo piece) due |
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Intervals and Harmony
Quiz 3 |
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Melodic Construction and Transformation |
Assignment 7 (duo piece) due |
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Contrapuntal Relationships |
Assignment 8 (duo piece) due |
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Drone, Ostinato, Chaconne and Passacaglia |
Assignment 9 (trio piece) due |
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Contrasting Harmonic Areas
Quiz 4 |
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Deadline For Final Projects |
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Unit Four: Onward and Beyond
Instrumentalists: bring your instrument only for the rehearsals of the piece(s) in which you'll play it. |
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Sampling, Quotation, Paraphrase, and Allusion
Read-through of Large-ensemble Compositions |
Assignment 10 (trio piece) due |
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Polystylism
Rehearsal of Large-ensemble Compositions |
Assignment 11 (trio piece) due |
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What (and How) do Sounds Mean? |
Assignment 12 (trio piece) due |
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Dress Rehearsal of Large-ensemble Compositions
Quiz 5 |
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Performances Of Final Projects
Post-concert Discussion of Performances |
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Report on Your Final Project |
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Final Examination |
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