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COURSE CALENDAR |
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Special Topic in Analysis and Composition: Popular Song |
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UCSC Department of Music. Instructor: Ben Carson |
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TAs: Jay Arms, Ittai Rosenbaum |
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Lecture/ Presentation Meetings: |
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Deadlines: readings/listenings on Mondays; written work on Fridays |
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Listening & Reading |
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Musicianship (W & F labs) |
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Analysis & Composition |
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(please use landscape-formatted staff paper) |
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JANUARY |
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[Due Jan 10 for Analysis I] Jump Blues, 1940s Country & Western Johnson, Maria V. 2007. “Black Women Electric Guitarists and Authenticity in the Blues.” Santoro, Gene. 2004. “Chess Records” [Ch. 10 of Highway 61 Revisited. & pp. 140-148 of Cohodas, Nadine. 2000. “2120 South Michigan” [Ch. 10 of Spinning Blues into Gold] |
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Week 1— Blues progression I, mixolydian in A and F; sing-tap 1. |
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Analysis I: Archeology of Rock and Roll [Written submission Jan 10, Prepared discussion Jan 13] |
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Chicago Blues; “Rock & Roll”: Peterson, Richard. 1990. “Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music.” In Popular Music, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Jan., 1990), pp. 97-116. |
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Week 2— Blues sing-play, Blues progression II (AAB) in F, major-seventh-chord arpeggiations, F & D mixolydian & aeolian. |
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Exercise I: Treble-bass framework |
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Brill-building, Gordy, Spectre, early Lennon & McCartney |
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Week 3— Blues: progression II, Eb & G mixolydian & aeolian, Stephen Foster sing-play |
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January 24: COMPOSITION I—basic AABA |
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Eubie Blake, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin |
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Week 4—including Boogie Bass lines |
Analysis Project II: Tin-pan Alley. |
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FEBRUARY |
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Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter |
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Week 5—Performances of Composition I, Sequences I |
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ANALYSIS/AURAL SKILLS MID-TERM 1 |
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James Brown, Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline), Stevie Wonder |
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Week 6—Sequence Review, Stop-time Blues. |
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Exercise II: chromaticism, modified cadences, Steely Dan (Ittai Rosenbaum) |
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Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil |
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February 21: COMPOSITION II—Tin-Pan Alley w/ Verse |
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Progressive Rock and Metal (Jay Arms), Bob Dylan (61 Revisited), Joni Mitchell (Blue) |
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Week 8 — Analysis II chords and melody |
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Exercise III: Prolongation and Sequence |
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MARCH |
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Parliament/Funkadelic |
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Analysis II chords & elaborated melody, bass & chords, bass and melody |
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March 7 / Composition III Drafts: March 10 |
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Final Presentations Begin |
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Extra Credit: Analysis III: Advanced Literature |
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FINAL EXAM |
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REVIEW |
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March 19, 4-7 pm: Final Exam |
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March 21: Final Project Due |
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