Moores School of Music
University of Houston
Dr. Tim Koozin tkoozin@uh.eduÊÊÊÊÊ office: 148 phone: 743-3318ÊÊÊÊÊoffice hours: TW 10:00 and by appointment
Musi 4210,section 0705
Fall 2006
TTH 2:00 - 3:00, Room 112
Required text: Burkhart. Anthology for Musical Analysis, 6th ed.
Prerequisite: Musi 3210 (Twentieth-Century Techniques) completed with a minimal grade of C-
Course Description and Learning Outcomes: Introduction to the study of musical form. Application of various techniques of analysis to music of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Course objectives and learning outcomes include facility in score analysis and understanding of formal process in tonal music.
Materials on Reserve: Scores, recording, and reference books are available in the Music Library.
Online Listening: Works for assigned listening are available online at the Naxos and/or Classical Music online libraries and also on CDs in the Music Library. Log on to Naxos or the Classical Music Library by way of the UH Library music data base page.
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Selected List of Works Ê (with URLs for NAXOS online listening)
Small Binary and Ternary Forms
Robert Schumann, Album for the Young: 1. Melody, 3. Humming Song, 6. Poor Orphan Child, 17. Little Morning WandererÊ Naxos
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 7, second mvtÊ Naxos (all Beethoven piano solo works)
Frederic Chopin, Mazurkas: Op. 7, No. 1 Naxos; Op. 67, No. 2Ê Naxos
Paul Hindemith, ÒA SwanÓ from Six Chansons
Bela Bartok, Mikrokosmos: ÒBulgarian Rhythm,Ó No. 115, Vol. IVÊ Naxos
Works with Trio
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1, third mvt.Ê Naxos (all Beethoven piano solo works)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major Op. 14, No. 1, second mvt.Ê Naxos (all Beethoven piano solo works)
Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 101 in D major, Hob. I/101, third mvt.Ê Naxos (several Haydn symphonies)
Johannes Brahms, Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118, No. 2ÊÊ Naxos (Brahms Opp. 117, 118, & 119)
Sonata Form
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1, first mvt.Ê Naxos (all Beethoven piano solo works)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 24, ÒSpring,Ó first mvt.Ê Naxos (Spring and Kreutzer sonatas)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in B flat major, K. 333, first mvt.Ê Naxos (several Mozart piano sonatas)
Paul Hindemith, Piano Sonata No. 2, first mvt.Ê Naxos (several Hindemith piano sonatas)
Rondo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, third mvt. ÊNaxos (all Beethoven piano solo works)
Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 101 in D major, Hob. I/101, fourth mvt.Ê Naxos (several Haydn symphonies)
Variation Forms
Henry Purcell, ÒDidoÕs LamentÓ from Dido and Aeneas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in D major, K. 284, third mvt.
Igor Stravinsky, Theme with Variations from Sonata for Two Pianos
Grading: Assignments and Quizzes 25%
Ê Class participation 25%
ÊÊ First Analysis Project Ê25% Assigned Sept 19; Due Oct 17
Ê Second Analysis Project 25% Assigned Nov 2; Due Monday, Nov 30
Four absences are allowed for any reason. There will be no ÒexcusedÓ absences beyond that number.
Fifth absence lowers final grade by a minus.
Sixth absence lowers final grade by an additional minus.
Seventh absence results in being dropped from the course (resulting in a W or F as appropriate).
Last day to drop without a grade: September 18 Last day to drop or withdraw: November 1
Photocopying rule: When using a photocopied score for assignments, always photocopy it before doing your work. No assignment will be accepted if the studentÕs score annotations are photocopied.
UH Policies on Academic Honesty can be found online at http://www.uh.edu/provost/stu/stu_syllabsuppl.html. You are expected to do your own work on all assignments, quizzes, and exams unless instructed differently. Problems with academic dishonesty will be handled according to the procedures outlined in the undergraduate student handbook and in the undergraduate course catalog. Please note that the mere suspicion of academic dishonesty is enough to initiate official action; please do not put yourself in the position of having to deal with this kind of situation.
Students with disabilities are asked to bring to the instructor's attention any special accommodations they may require. Students will document a disability with the UH Center for Students with Disabilities (phone: 713 743 5400). The CSD will provide recommendations to the instructor and student to help in accommodating a disability.
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Reference texts for analysis of form in tonal music:
Green , Douglass. Form in Tonal Music: An Introduction to Analysis. 2d ed. (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1979). MT58.G75 1979
Spencer, Peter and Peter Temko. A Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music. (Waveland Press, 1994). MT58.S63 P7 1994.
Caplin , William. Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. (Oxford University Press, 1998) MT58 .C37 1998.
Berry, Wallace. Form in Music (Yale University Press, 1989) MT58 .B34
Binary and Ternary Forms
Koozin
Terms:
phrase ÊÊÊBinary Form ÊÊÊSimple Ternary Form
period ÊÊRounded Binary Form Da Capo Forms
double period Open/Closed Forms ÊCompound Ternary Form
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Analysis: Play through each assigned piece at the piano or listen to a recording. Mark all cadences, modulations, and formal divisions. Try to identify one particularly distinctive feature in each piece.