MSC 401 - Post-Tonal Music Theory and Analysis

1 semester,3 Credits

Addresses the techniques and materials of post-tonal music with a special emphasis on the analysis of atonal, serial and centric music. Explores music on the brink of atonality; free atonal music and the classic pitch-class set theory of Allen Forte; 12-tone music and serialism; and linear analysis and voice-leading approaches to post-tonal music.Prerequisite: MSC 202.