Category Archive for 'Music Theory'

Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements and the Classical Model

Monday, July 21st, 2008

This is another paper from graduate school, dated March 7, 1992. As with other papers I’ve posted here, the examples are missing due to limits of technology at that time.
Igor Stravinsky often drew from Classical models in his composition.  Stravinsky himself admitted that when he was composing, he listened to works C especially symphonies C [...]

Beethoven’s Expansion of the Symphonic Coda

Monday, July 21st, 2008

This term paper was written in graduate school, though I think it may have been in an undergraduate class. I don’t quite remember at this point. The paper is dated 12/9/1992. I could not find the title page. I’m quite certain I received an A on this one. And since this was 1992 and I [...]

Methods of Analyis of Schoenberg’s Die glückliche Hand

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

I wrote this paper in  June 1993 for one of my graduate music theory classes, which I believe was taught by the John Crawford mentioned in this paper.
Schoenberg’s Die glückliche Hand is a work which combines music with other elements, such as drama, visual effects, libretto, and art.  It is perhaps different than other [...]