The end goal of this class is to equip you with the basic analytical techniques in every hierarchy. We will cover the first five chapters of Douglas Green’s book, introducing the basic structural units to the phrases in combo. After midterm we will apply these basic techniques to the study of the simpler forms, roughly in Chapters 6 & 8, and make to the form of rondo towards the end of this semester.

The end goal of this class is to equip you with the basic analytical techniques from the basic structural units to the phrases in combo. After midterm we will apply these basic techniques to the study of the simpler forms, and make to the form of rondo towards the end of this semester.

Form in Tonal Music—an Introduction to Analysis, by Douglas M. Green, second edition, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1979.