WEEK | TOPICS |
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1st Week | Brief introduction of the 20th century Composition Techniques I course, the resources to be used and the way of studying |
2nd Week | Extended tonality and its use. 1. Chopin - Prelude in A minor, Op. 28, No. 2. |
3rd Week | Extended tonality and its use. A short passage from Brahms - Senfoni No.1, Op. 68, II Hugo Wolf - Das verlassene Magdlein Scriabin - Prelude No. 2 from 24 preludes or equivalent pieces. |
4th Week | Use of church modes, planning (parallelism), pentatonic scale and whole tone scale. Debussy - Nocturns, |
5th Week | Polyharmony, synthetic modes. |
6th Week | Rhythm and meter. Copland - Appalachian Spring, mm. 86-98. Stravinsky - Danse de la foire, Petrouchka?dan. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring - Sacrificial Dance (The Choosen One). Carter - String Quartet No. 2, Movement 2, mm. 181-186. Carter - String Quartet No. 1, Movement 1. Messiaen - Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (Quartet for The End of Time) - VI. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettesor equivalent pieces. |
7th Week | Basic concepts and techniques in atonal (or pan-tonal) music. Webern |
8th Week | Twelve-tone serialism. Finney - 24 Piano inventions - All Alone, No. 14. Webern - Symphony, Op. 21. Webern - Concerto, Op. 24. Dallapiccola - Quaderno musicale di Annalibera. or equivalent pieces. |
9th Week | Twelve-tone serialism.Dallapiccola - Quaderno musicale di Annalibera.or equivalent pieces. |
10th Week | presentations of the -projects. |
11th Week | Total serialism.Boulez -Structures la, mm 1-7.Messiaen - Quatre Etudes de Rythme, Mode de valeurs et d?intensites.or equivalent pieces. |
12th Week | Milhaud's Clarinet Sonata and composition techniques used in this work (or an equivalent work). |
13th Week | Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and composition techniques used in this work (or an equivalent work). |
14th Week | Texture and extended resources. Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. or an equivalent work. |