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Formal Analysis Supplements

Topic Lecture Notes Audio Lecture Other 
    
1: Motives
Notes Presentation Slides (PDF)
Motives Assignments (PDF)
Recordings for Motives Assignments
    
2: Cadences
Notes Presentation Slides (PDF)
Cadences Assignments
    
3: Phrases
Notes 
4: Irregular Phrases: Inherently Irregular
NotesAudio Lecture
(For Topics 4, 5, 6, and 7:)
Presentation Slides (PDF)
    
5: Irregular Phrases: Extensions at the Beginning
NotesAudio Lecture
 
    
6: Irregular Phrases: Extensions Within the Phrase
NotesAudio Lecture
 
    
7: Irregular Phrases: Extensions at the End
NotesAudio Lecture
    
8: Periods
NotesAudio Lecture
9: Expansions of Periods
NotesAudio Lecture 1
Audio Lecture 2
Audio Lecture 3
Audio Lecture 4
    
10: Two-Part Song Form
Notes 
    
11: Three-Part Song Form
Notes 
    
12: Expansions of Song Forms
Notes 
 
    
13: Compound Song Forms
Notes 
 
    
14: First Rondo
NotesAudio LecturePresentation Slides (as PDF)
Animated Listening Charts
Assignments
15: Second Rondo
NotesAudio Lecture
 
16: Sonata Form: Introduction

Notes

 

 
    
17: Sonata Form: Exposition
NotesAudio Lecture 1
    
18: Sonata Form: Development
NotesAudio Lecture 1
Audio Lecture 2
Audio Lecture 3
19: Sonata Form: Recapitulation
Notes Presentation Slides (as PDF)
Animated Listening Charts/Recordings
    
20: Sonata-Rondo (Third Rondo)
  Presentation Slides (as PDF)
Animated Listening Charts
Mozart Trio K 502 (PDF)
    
21: Concerto
  Presentation Slides (as PDF)
Animated Listening Charts
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Chart (PDF)
Mozart Concerto K. 467 Chart (PDF)
    
22: Fugue
  Presentation Slides (as PDF)
Animated Listening Charts
Questions for Fugue Analysis
Graph of Bach C# Major Fugue
    
23: Aria
  Presentation Slides (as PDF)
Animated Listening Charts
Assignments
    
24: Ostinato and Variation
Notes Presentation Slides (as PDF)
Animated Listening Charts
    
25: Cantata and Oratorio