PRO- 417 Western Music IV – In search of the essence of vocal music II- On the way of musical deconstruction.-HARMONY & COUNTERPOINT, FROM BACH TO SCHOENBERG
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PRO- 417 Western Music IV – In search of the essence of vocal music II-
On the way of musical deconstruction.-
HARMONY & COUNTERPOINT, FROM BACH TO SCHOENBERG
Prof. Santiago Lusardi Girelli
Anthony Gonsalves Chair.
Visiting Research Professor Program
Goa University.
Course Coordinator- Ms Marise D’Lima, Dept of Portuguese( [email protected])
OPEN FOR STUDENTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC
VENUE- Conference Hall, Main Building, Goa University
Calendar:
TIMINGS- 9.30 am to 1.30 amClass I – January, Saturday 24th
Class II – January, Saturday 31st
Class III – February, Saturday 07th
Class IV – February, Saturday 14th
Syllabus: PRO 417 Harmony & counterpoint, from Bach to Schoenberg. Western Music IV. ( 1 credit course)
Class I – “ON THE WAY OF MUSICAL DECONSTRUCTION”
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to the course: Basic ideas. Harmony and Counterpoint, from Bach to Schoenberg, “On the way of musical deconstruction”. Theory or exhibition system?
Conference I: Deconstruction I: etymological analysis of the history of harmony: from Nietzsche to Heidegger / from Bach to Schoenberg.
Introduction to History Harmony. Ancient Period.
Introduction to the concepts of dissonance and consonance. The theory of affects or Affektenlehre
- Introduction: Music theory: Intervals and Scales. The inner world: the perception of consonance and dissonance.
Conference: Introduction to Schoenberg´s work “Harmony”: evolution of the idea of tonal universe.
Activity 2 –Music Reading I – Repertories I. Genres of vocal sacred music: Bach Chorales, Chorus in the Cantata BWV 131 – Aus der Tiefen.
activity 3 – MusicWritingI.: Harmony exercise I.
Activity for the week –“On the way of musical deconstruction” Arnold Schoenberg´s Harmony.
Class II – “ON THE WAY OF MUSICAL DECONSTRUCTION”
THE ART OF HARMONY.
Review – Activity WM IV Class 1.
Introduction: Tonality I. Deconstruction II.
M. Heidegger and his work Sein und Zeit: Being and Time.
The art of Harmony: Chords and Scales.
History of Harmony: Activity 3: Felix Mendelsohn: Verleih uns Frieden / Singet demm Hern Psalm 98 op. 91.
Theory of Music II: Intervals. Qualification and classification.
Activity 4 – Music Reading II. Verleih uns Frieden / Singet demm Hern Psalm 98 op. 91.
Conference: II: Schoenberg’s work “Harmony”: “On the way of musical deconstruction”.
activity 5 – Introduction to Music Reading III – Repertory III. The counterpoint on Claudio Monteverdi and the Serenissima Republic of Venice. (Music appreciation).
Activity 6 – WritingMusicI. Harmony exercise II.
Activity for the week –“On the way of musical deconstruction” Arnold Schoenberg´s Harmony.
Class 3 – “ON THE WAY OF MUSICAL DECONSTRUCTION”
THE ART OF COUNTERPOINT.
Review – Activity WM III Class 2.
Deconstruction III – Ein Deustches Requiem by J. Brahms and Frederick Nietzche.
Music Theory: Counterpoint: Concept of time and space. Species counterpoint: 1st. & 2nd.
Activity 7 – Music Reading III. Ein Deustches Requiem by J. Brahms.
Conference: Schoenberg’s work “Harmony”: “The frontiers of tonality”
Activity 8 – Music writing III: Harmony exercise III.
Activity 9 – Music Writing III. Voices conducting and cadenzas.
Activity for the week –“On the way of musical deconstruction” Arnold Schoenberg´s Harmony.
Class 4 – “ON THE WAY OF MUSICAL DECONSTRUCTION”
TONALITY AND MUSIC GRAVITY.
Review – Activity WMIII Class 3.
Deconstruction IV: From Romanticism to the upcoming of new musical currents.
The theory of affects or Affektenlehre / Part II: Arvo Pärt and the Minimalism.
Activity 10 – Music Reading: Kindertotenlieder – Songs on the Death of Children. “The harmonious world of Gustav Mahler: Harmony as a vehicle for musical rhetoric.”
Activity 11 – Introduction to Music Reading III
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- Final examination.
COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
Attend a concert or ensao of GU Choir and write a paper about the event.(600 to 800 words aprox)
COMPLEMENTARY ITEMS
ARNOLD SCHONBERG AND THE SEARCH OF INGRAVITY.
The “musical zero gravity” concept. The atonalism: The “Disharmony”
Contemporary harmony: the concept of harmonic spectrum: Black holes and wormholes of music. Modulation and harmonic regionalization
- Other elements that govern harmony (apart of intonation and pitch): Stimmu – Karl Stockhausen / Schoenberg – Serialism & Dodecaphonist.
