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MUSC 443 Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis Units: 3.00
The concepts and principles of a reductive/linear approach to the analysis of music named after its first proponent, Heinrich Schenker. Both theoretical and practical applications are studied.
Learning Hours: 126 (36 Seminar, 90 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite MUSC 293.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Articulate a basic overview of Heinrich Schenker's ideologies through an introduction to his writings, and put these writings into the context of both his time and culture and our current time and culture.
- Create melodic reductions by eliminating non-chord tones and chordal skips in order to determine the underlying framework and shape of a melody.
- Develop their knowledge of harmonic function in order to apply these concepts to larger-scale analyses of complete works, thereby showing the most basic underlying harmonic structure.
- Memorize and identify terminology specific to Schenkerian Analysis and be able to apply these concepts to analysis and reduction.