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Required Texts


Amazon logo Aldwell, Edward, and Carl Schachter. Harmony and Voice Leading. 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2002. ISBN: 9780155062429.
The chapter structure of the 2nd and 3rd editions is identical; so if you find a copy of the 2nd ed., feel free to use it (keeping in mind that the page numbers won’t match those of the 3rd ed.).

Classical themes and variations by Beethoven, Clementi, Haydn, and Mozart.

Music manuscript paper: Please obtain a plentiful supply of music manuscript paper. It must be no smaller than letter-size, and no larger than 9"x12". It must have ten to twelve staves per page, printed in gray or brown ink (not black). I will not accept photocopied or laser-printed manuscript paper.

Various Composers. Five centuries of choral music for mixed voices. Vol. 1. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1963.

Amazon logo Ottman, Robert. Music for sight-singing. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN: 9780131456709.



Key to the Reading Assignments



Abbreviationsauthors/titleS
A+SchAmazon logo Aldwell, Edward, and Carl Schachter. Harmony and voice leading. 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2002. ISBN: 9780155062429.
AllanbrookAmazon logo Allanbrook, Wye Jamison. Rhythmic gesture in Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780226014036.
LarsenAmazon logo Larsen, Jens Peter. Handel, Haydn, and the Viennese Classical style. Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Research Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780835718516.
RatnerAmazon logo Ratner, Leonard. Classic music: Expression, form, and style. New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1981. ISBN: 9780028720203.
RolesAmazon logo Parakilas, James, et. al. Piano roles: Three hundred years of life with the piano. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0300083513.
RosenAmazon logo Rosen, Charles. The Classical style. Exp. ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1997. ISBN: 9780393040203.


Please be sure to read each chapter prior to the class meeting for which it is listed.



Readings by Class Session



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Unit One: Review of Fundamentals
1Welcome-Ritual Reading of the Syllabus-Overview

Review of Chord Construction, Figured Bass, and Part-Writing
2Review of Four-part Writing (cont.)

Assignment 1 (Long Exercise in Four-part Writing)

Practice Quiz (C, a, G, e, F, d)
A+Sch. Chapters 1-6.

Roles. "1700 to 1770s: The need for the piano." pp. 9-29.
3Review of Two-part Counterpoint

Assignment 2 (Short Exercise in Four-part Writing)

Quiz 1 (C, a, G, e, F, d)
Roles. "1770s to 1820s: The piano revolution in the Age of Revolutions." pp. 77-93.
4Review of Diatonic Harmony, Cadences, Binary Form

Assignment 3 (Long Exercise in Two-part Writing)
A+Sch. Chapters 7-13.

Roles. "The Classical repertory revisited: Instruments, players, and styles." pp. 109-131
5Review of Melodic Figuration

Assignment 4 (Short Exercise in Harmony and Voice-Leading)

Quiz 2 (D, b, Bb, g)
A+Sch. Chapter 20.

Rosen. "The musical language of the late eighteenth century." pp. 19-29.

Larsen. "Some observations on the development of the Viennese Classical instrumental music." pp. 227-249.
6Review of Rhythmic Figuration

Assignment 5 (Long Exercise in Harmony and Voice-Leading)
A+Sch. Chapter 21.

Ratner. "Ideas of expression." pp. 3-8.

Allanbrook. "Expression, imitation, and the musical topos." pp. 1-9.
7Review of Diatonic Modulation

Assignment 6 (Short Exercise in Harmony and Voice-Leading)

Quiz 3 (A, f#, Eb, c)
A+Sch. Chapters 14 and 26.

Ratner. "Periodicity." pp. 33-47.
8Test 1 (Diatonic Voice-Leading, Harmony, and Figuration)
Unit Two: Elementary Chromatic Harmony
9Introduction to Leading-Tone Seventh Chords

Assignment 7 (Analytic Exercise)

Quiz 4 (E, c#, Ab, f)
A+Sch. Chapter 22.

Ratner. "Harmony." pp. 48-67.
10Applied Leading-tone Seventh ChordsA+Sch. Chapter 25.

Ratner. "Rhythm." pp. 68-80.
11Workshop Discussion of Theme Drafts

Introduction to the Flat Supertonic (Neapolitan)

Assignment 8 (viio7 and applied viio7)

Quiz 5 (viio7 in all Keys)
A+Sch. Chapter 28.

Ratner. "Melody." pp. 81-107.
12Introduction to Chords of the Augmented SixthA+Sch. Chapter 29.

Allanbrook. "The gestures of social dance." pp. 31-52.
13Workshop Discussion of Revised Themes

Introduction to Mode Mixture

Assignment 9 (Flat Supertonic and Chords of the Augmented Sixth)

Quiz 6 (ii6, iio6, and bII6 , in all Keys)
A+Sch. Chapter 23.

Ratner. "Topics." pp. 9-26.
14Complete Draft of Variation(s), Featuring Melodic FigurationRosen. "The popular style." pp. 329-350.
15Workshop Discussion of Variations Featuring Melodic Figuration

Assignment 10 (Mode Mixture)

Quiz 7 (vi, [b]VI, and Chords of the Augmented Sixth, in all Keys)
Rosen. "Structure and ornament." pp. 101*-108.
*starting near the top: "Only with Rossini, Chopin, Paganini, Liszt, and Bellini…"

Ratner. "Performance." pp. 181-202.
16Test 2 (Elementary Chromatic Harmony)
Unit Three: Chromatic Modulation
17Workshop Discussion of Variations Featuring Melodic Figuration

Assignment 11 (Chromatic Harmony)

Quiz 8 (A, Ab, a, Bb, b, Including Chromatic Harmony)
18Complete Draft of Variation(s), Featuring Rhythmic Figuration
19Workshop Discussion of Variations Featuring Rhythmic Figuration

Assignment 12 (Chromatic Harmony)

Quiz 9 (C, c, c#, D, d, Including Chromatic Harmony)
20Complete Draft of Variation(s), in the Parallel Mode
21Workshop Discussion of Variations in the Parallel Mode

Assignment 13 (Chromatic Modulation)
22Assignment 14 (Chromatic Modulation)
23Assignment 15 (Chromatic Modulation)

Quiz 10 (E, Eb, e, F, f, f#, G, g)
24Performances of Final Projects

Assignment 16 (Chromatic Harmony)
25Performances of Final Projects (cont.)

 








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