MYE 595E - Introd.to Post Tonal Theory

Course Objectives

1. To develop skills to be used in the analysis of post-tonal music,
2. To develop an understanding of which tool is appropriate for the analysis of a variety of
post-tonal styles,
3. To teach to write clearly and articulately about post-tonal music,

Course Description

Post-tonal music theory including topics such as pitch class, pitch-class intervals and interval classes; ordered and unordered sets of pitch classes; arrays, normal and prime forms and forte names; index numbers; set classes; subsets, supersets, communality, equivalences, and degrees of