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LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Welcome - Ritual Reading of the Syllabus - Overview
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).
2What is "Music"? What is a "Score"? How are they Related?

Cook: "Music: An Imaginary Object"
3Form and Proportion; Large-scale Rhythm and Phrase Rhythm (Special Guest: Jewlia Eisenberg, Composer-performer)Drill 1 (solo piece)
4Speed, Volume, and Register

Quiz 1
5TimbreRevision of Drill 1 (trio piece)
6Texture and ArticulationAssignment 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).
7Symmetric MeterAssignment 2 (solo piece) due
8Accent and Syncopation

Quiz 2
9Polyrhythm and PolymeterAssignment 3 (duo piece) due
10Asymmetric MeterAssignment 4 (duo piece) due
11Alternatives to MeterAssignment 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.
12Consonance and DissonanceAssignment 6 (solo piece) due
13Intervals and Harmony

Quiz 3
14Melodic Construction and TransformationAssignment 7 (duo piece) due
15Contrapuntal RelationshipsAssignment 8 (duo piece) due
16Drone, Ostinato, Chaconne and PassacagliaAssignment 9 (trio piece) due
17Contrasting Harmonic Areas

Quiz 4
18Deadline For Final Projects
Unit Four: Onward and Beyond

Instrumentalists: bring your instrument only for the rehearsals of the piece(s) in which you'll play it.
19Sampling, Quotation, Paraphrase, and Allusion

Read-through of Large-ensemble Compositions
Assignment 10 (trio piece) due
20Polystylism

Rehearsal of Large-ensemble Compositions
Assignment 11 (trio piece) due
21What (and How) do Sounds Mean?Assignment 12 (trio piece) due
21Dress Rehearsal of Large-ensemble Compositions

Quiz 5
22-24Performances Of Final Projects

Post-concert Discussion of Performances
25Report on Your Final Project
Final Examination

 








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