20th Century Music Theory

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This course offers an overview of 20th-century music from analytical and theoretical points of view. Systems of analysis include: pitch centricity;motivic cells; symmetry; pitch-class set analysis; neoclassicism; twelvetonetopics; invariance and combinatoriality; total serialism; temporality; aleatoricism; and minimalism. Composers include, but are not limited to:Babbitt, Bartók, Berio, Boulez, Cage, Carter, Crawford, Dallapiccola, Debussy, Hindemith, Ives, Ligeti, Messiaen, Pärt, Reich, Rochberg, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, and Webern.