Special Program – Score Reading and Perceptive Analysis
Scoring Reading and Perceptive Analysis II:
Instrumental Works (Intermediate Level)
In order to avoid students doing solely the so-called musical analysis in a ‘dead’ way of paper work, Score Reading and Perceptive Analysis aims to teach students how to approach and perceive various types of scores of different musical genres, as well as various musical styles in the historic-analytical context. It also enables the ‘reader’ to develop the self-musicianship, so as to see and to perceive musical sound, be it from the piano, vocal, chamber or orchestra, and to analyze such sound through the use of our inner ears. The skill of score reading will not be complete without the skill of musical perception. Students need to apply their general knowledge of music history, harmonization, structural form and orchestration, in order to analyze the musical content of the scores through listening to the musical contexts of the works. This course is designed in the form of case study. Students will study one set piece in each lesson and do some simple analytical questions after score reading practice.
Course Contents
Lesson 1 |
Introduction to Score Reading: Hearing and Reading A Score |
Sonata for Violin and Piano in F major: op.24, 2 mov. – Beethoven |
Lesson 2 |
Types of Scores |
String Quartet in F major, op. 74 no.2, 3 mov. – Haydn |
Lesson 3 |
The Look of a Score -1 Intro. to Orchestral Score |
Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F major, mov. 1 – S. Bach |
Lesson 4 |
More on Baroque Score |
Suite VIII in F minor: Courante for harpsichord — Handel |
Lesson 5 |
The Look of a Score -2 The Classical Score |
Symphony no. 1 in C major, op. 21, 4 mov. – Beethoven |
Lesson 6 |
More on Classical Score: Sonata |
Piano Sonata in Cm, op 10. no. 3 mov. 1 — Beethoven |
Lesson 7 |
Scores and Their History The Romantic Score |
Symphony no. 1 in D major (Titan), 3 mov. – Gustav Mahler |
Lesson 8 |
More on Romantic Score: Lied |
Frauenliebe und Leben “Er der Herrlichstevon Allen”- Schumann |
Lesson 9 |
Reading Score – Hearing Score More on Romantic Style: Piano |
Nocturne in Eb major, op. 9 no. 2 — Chopin |
Lesson 10 |
Classical Concerto |
Piano Concerto in A major, K488 — Mozart |