MUSIC 595
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Score Analysis
Course Description
Analysis of representative choral and instrumental works from the Renaissance through contemporary styles.
When Taught
Winter Odd Years
Min
2
Fixed/Max
2
Fixed
2
Fixed
0
Title
Score Analysis
Learning Outcome
Music 595 is to help you to- Explore the nature and function of scores of all kinds.- Answer the question of any score: what does this score tell me about the intended sound and what does it not tell me?- Learn criteria for identifying style, period, and performance practice of any score.Score types include:1. Vocal music: various a capella genres (choral, barbershop, etc.), congregational hymns (including shape-note symbols and tonic sol-fa), Lieder, popular sheet music, folk transcriptions.2. Instrument-based genres: works for solo instrument, chamber groups, and larger ensembles3. Alternative uses and adaptations of common-practice notation: lead sheets/fake books, charts/graphs (e.g., Schenker graphs), short scores, piano reductions, transcriptions, various indeterminate notations. 4. Miscellaneous non-common-practice notation. These include tablatures, assorted graphic/pictographic representations, verbal scores, mathematical (e.g., ratio-based) notation.
