MUS 874
Schenkerian Analysis
Bruce Campbell, Assoc. Prof. (E-mail)
Fall Semester 2001
Monday, Wednesday
10.20 - 11.10am -- NOTE TIME! The online MSU List of Courses
shows an incorrect time.
Room 219-P
Prerequsites
There are no formal prerequisites. The course has been assigned
an 800-series number as it is introductory in nature. If, on the
basis of the Graduate Orientation Examination (which most graduate
students take prior to their first semester in a graduate degree
program in the School of Music), you have been advised to
take MUS 200 Introduction to Music Theory and/or MUS 201
Introduction to Aural Skills, you should complete that
course (those courses) satisfactorily before enrolling in Schenkerian
Analysis.
You are strongly encouraged to complete MUS 872 Tonal Forms
and MUS 480 Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint as well before
undertaking Schenkerian Analysis.
If your "theory chops" are rusty, you may resent
the class and conclude that it is demanding, or that the instructor
assumes too much and doesn't explain matters fully.
The purpose of this class is twofold:
- to become familiar with the contributions of Heinrich Schenker
(1868-1935) to tonal music theory and analysis through primary
and secondary sources, and to develop an ability to interpret
a "Schenkerian" linear graph
- to acquire some skill in the techniques of Schenkerian analysis
("sketching") by means of selected exercises
Books required
- Forte, Allen and Steven E. Gilbert. Introduction to Schenkerian
Analysis. (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1982) ISBN 0-393-95192-8
- Schenker, Heinrich. Five Graphic Music Analyses. (New
York: Dover Publications Inc., 1969) ISBN 486-22294-2
Please bring the Forte/Gilbert book to each class
meeting.
