Learning Outcomes:
Students should be able to:
• define and recognise fundamental musical forms relevant to Western art music;
• engage in articulate formal analysis of substantial pieces of Western art music;
• discuss different aspects of musical structure across a range of diverse musical types;
• make a persuasive analytical study of a chosen piece of music, drawing upon diverse theoretical models as needed.
Indicative Module Content:
Unit 1: Analysis of form in late 18th-century and 19th-century Western art music
• review of conventional theme types
• sonata forms
• other full movement forms
Unit 2: Analysis of form in 20th-century and early 21st-century Western musics
• post-tonal forms
• atonal & sonoristic forms
• blues & song forms