Courses Offered in Fall 2023 (112AY 1S)

Course Overview and Objectives

1. This course primarily aims to help students establish fundamental concepts in music analysis, while integrating basic knowledge of music theory and developing analytical skills.
2. The course is designed on the basis of Western tonal music, with particular emphasis on the analysis of Western tonal music from 1700 to 1900.
3. The course has the following three objectives:
   1. To study the formal structure of musical works and the expansion and prolongation of tonal harmony from both macro- and micro-level perspectives.
   2. To create annotated scores.
   3. To understand the hierarchical concept through which the content of tonal music is expressed, and to learn how to produce formal diagrams for form structure and sketches of reduction analysis for harmonic progression.

In addition to the three learning objectives above, this course places special emphasis on the practical application of the analytical methods and techniques learned in class to the analysis of musical works.

Course Overview and Objectives

This course aims to help students understand important musical forms in the history of Western music. Through listening, analysis, and perception, students will explore musical form and structural content, and further connect these forms with historical context and style in order to understand the auditory focus of different musical forms.

The course content is broadly divided into three parts:

1. Understanding the elements that constitute musical form and structure.
2. Learning how to analyze, understand, and perceive important musical forms.
3. Understanding the transformation and significance of form in different historical styles.