Music Theory 3B C

Through an analysis of selected musical works, the lectures consist of:
• Analysing and refreshing the definitions of concepts and methods of music analysis.
• Analysing the connections and co-dependence of the formal structure and musical components with focus on chords and twelve-tone technique.
• Learning about different compositional techniques, approaches and styles after 1900.
• Learning about and aural identification the particularities of personal styles of selected composers of this period.
• Identifying connections between compositional techniques and approaches of different periods.
The seminar is intended for refreshing and deepening the knowledge about musical-theoretical disciplines and elements based on actual examples. It covers a concrete study of compositional techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries with the ability to analyse works and understand them in the historical context:
• Harmony with Olivier Messiaen;
• serialism;
• post-serialism and sound compositions;
• aleatorics;
• indeterminacy;
• spectral music;
• electro-acoustic music;
• contemporary interactive systems.

G. Pompe, Novi tokovi v glasbi 20. stoletja, Ljubljana 2016. COBISS.SI-ID - 286536192

V. Persichetti, Twentieth-century harmony, New York 1961. COBISS.SI-ID - 153479

K. O. Treibmann, Strukturen in neuer Musik, Leipzig 1981. COBISS.SI-ID – 17658632

D. de la Motte, Musikalische Analyse. Kassel 1968. COBISS.SI-ID – 13608960

R. P. Morgan, Twentieth-Century Music, New York 1991. COBISS.SI-ID - 28973666

H. Danuser, Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts: mit 108 Notenbeispielen, 130 Abbildungen und 2 Farbtafeln, Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft 7, Laaber 1984. COBISS.SI-ID - 20184321

Ch. Wünsch, Satztechniken im 20. Jahrhundert, Kassel 2009. COBISS.SI-ID - 40093026