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