Schenkerian Anaylsis
Moores School of Music
University of Houston

Dr. Tim Koozin      tkoozin@uh.edu      office: 148      phone: (713) 743-3318      web page: http://www.uh.edu/~tkoozin/      office hours: TuTh 10:00 and by appointment

MUSI 6305, section 26053
Fall 2018
11:30 - 1:00 TuTh, Room 110

Prerequisite: Graduate standing in music

Course Description and Learning Outcomes: Reductive analysis, levels of structure in tonal music, and graphing techniques. Course objectives and learning outcomes include facility in score analysis and understanding of linear/structural process in tonal music.

Required text and workbook: Allen Cadwallader and David GagnŽ. Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach. 3rd edition with workbook. Oxford, 2010.

Materials on Reserve: UH Blackboard will be used for scores and readings.  Works for assigned listening are available online and in the Music Library. Log on to online listening resources by way of the UH Library music research media page.

Oblong score paper suitable for Schenkerian graphs: 4-systemÊÊ3-systemÊ 3-system larger

Schedule  (subject to change)
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5 weeks          Basic principles
2 weeks          Techniques of Prolongation
5 weeks          Analytical Applications
2 weeks          Synthesis

Chs 1-5
Chs 6-7. Midterm paper topics
Selections from Chs 8-11
Term paper topics

  

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Grading and Policies
 

Short assignments / class participation
Midterm paper      
Term paper           

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Assignments (subject to change)

(Please watch here for updates. All items are available on UH Blackboard unless otherwise noted.)

Week 1 (Aug 21-23) - Week 2 (Aug 28-30)

Study Cadwallader & Gagne, Chapter 1. Bring the score for Beethoven's Op. 2, No. 1 piano sonata, mvt 1. (on UH Blackboard). Be ready to discuss the whole movement in terms of form, harmony, and motivic structure. How does the Ch 1 discusion of the piece add to your understanding of the movement?

For Tuesday, Aug 28:
      Study Chapter 2. Complete the Workbook assignment 1 (Beethoven, Seven Variations on "God Save the King," theme and Variation 1).
      Analyze one other piece from the Ch 2 list, p. 39-40. (Several are on e-Reserve.) Use examples in Ch 2 as models for your analysis. Be ready to discuss your analysis in class.

For Thursday, August 30. Continue Chs 2 & 3. Write a brief readers response essay in Blackboard on chapters 2 & 3, discussing two main principles from the reading.

Week 3 (Sept 4-6)

Wrap up Chapter 2 and Study Chapter 3, "Bass Lines and Harmonic Structure"
For Thursday, Sept 6: Workbook assignments No. 3 (Ashgrove) and 4 (Chopin nocturne)

Begin studying Chapter 4 in our textbook. Find your own examples of (1) Linear progressions and (2) Linear-intervallic patterns.

Week 4 (Sept 11-13)

For Tuesday, Sept 11: Complete workbook assignment 5 (Bellini)

For Thursday, Sept 13: Complete one Workbook assignment selected from Nos. 6-11. Be ready to show and discuss it in class.

Week 5 (Sept 18-20)

For Tuesday, Sept 18: Robert Hatten readings. Workbook assignment 16 (Bach English Suite, Prelude), for in-class discussion.

For Thursday, Sept 20: Monelle, chs 3 & 4; Textbook, Chapter 5 (Tonal Structure)

For next week thursday: Workbook #18 (Haydn). Textbook, Chapter 6 (Techniques of Melodic Prolongation)

Week 6 (Sept 25-27)

Tuesday, September 25: No class due to Robert Hatten visit.
 
For Thursday, Sept 27: Study Chs 1 and 2 from Rothstein, Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music (UH Blackboard)
For Tuesday, Oct 2: Complete workbook assignment No. 19 (Beethoven)

Week 7 (Oct 2-4) - Week 8 (Oct 9-11)

Rothstein, Ch 7 (Chopin)

Reader Response Essay: Due Thursday, Oct 18; 2 pages. Discuss some essential topics and terms from chapters 1, 2, and 7. How does Rothstein's approach to phrase rhythm integrate a Schenkerian conception of musical structure?

Complete Cadwallader & Gagne, Chapters 6 (Techniques of Melodic Prolongation) and 7 (Basic Elaborations)
Explore Part II (Analytical Applications)

Midterm Paper Due: Tuesday, Oct 16

Weeks 9-10

Study ch ch 11 (Sonata Principle). Begin an analysis of Mozart's piano sonata, K. 332, first movement.

Weeks 11-12

Complete ch ch 11 (Sonata Principle). Complete an analysis of Mozart's piano sonata, K. 332, first movement.

Weeks 13-15

Study Ch 7 (Some Basic Elaborations of Fundamental Structures).

David Beach readings from Advanced Schenkerian Analysis.

Poundie Burstein: Comedy and Structure in Haydn's Symphonies

Selected readings on voice-leading structure in popular music and jazz

Selected Reserves (books):

Heinrich Schenker, Five Graphic Music Analyses (FŸnf Urlinie-Tafeln). New York, Dover Publications, 1969.  MT140.S29

________. Free Composition (Der freie Satz), V. III of New Musical Theories and Fantasies. New York: Longman, 1979.  MT40.S29213 and Supplement

________. Harmony (Neue Musikalische Theorien und Phantasien, 1). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1954, 1980.  MT40.S2912 1980x

________. "A Contribution to the Study of Ornamentation," Music Forum 4, p. 1-139.  ML55 .M49  v. 4

Allen Forte and Steven E. Gilbert. Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis. New York: Norton, 1982.  MT6.F642 I6 1982

David Beach, ed. Aspects of Schenkerian Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.  MT6.A766 1983

Maury Yeston, ed. Readings in Schenker Analysis and Other Approaches. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1977. ML423.S33.R4

Felix Salzer. Structural Hearing. Charles Boni, 1952; repr. Dover, 1962.  MT40.S2 1962  v. 1-2
 

Web Resources:

David Neumeyer and Susan Tepping. A Guide to Schenkerian Analysis. Prentice-Hall, 1992. https://webspace.utexas.edu/dn235076/www/NT0/NT0_TOC.html

Tom Pankhurst's Guide to Schenkerian Analysis. http://www.schenkerguide.com/