Survey of the text -- Some possible course outlines -- Survey of the individual chapters -- Unit one: Tonality and twentieth-century music. Pitch in tonal and nontonal music ; Rhythm and meter ; Texture and timbre ; Form -- Unit two: Pitch structures. Pitches, intervals, melody ; Pitch-class sets ; Interval content ; Using different pitch-class sets ; Pitch-class regions, scales, modes -- Unit three: Serial music. Twelve-tone series ; Common elements ; Hexachordal combinatoriality ; Derived series ; Multiple orderings of twelve-tone series ; Other aspects of serialism -- Unit four: Since World War II. More recent developments.
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