I first matriculated at the Eastman School of Music in September of 2006. Below is a history of my work while at Eastman during the Fall 2006 semester.

TH451 - Modal Counterpoint (Prof. Matthew Brown):

• Week 1: Cantus Firmus Exercises
• Week 2: Two-Voice First Species Exercises
• Week 3: Two-Voice Invertible First Species Exercises
• Week 4: Two-Voice Second Species Exercises
• Week 5: Two-Voice Imitative First Species Exercises
• Week 6: Two-Voice Imitative First Species (Inversion and Retrograde) Exercises
• Week 7: Cantus-Altus Imitation Exercise
• Week 8: Cantus-Altus Imitation (Longer) Exercise
• Week 9: Three-Voice First Species Exercises
• Week 10: Three-Voice Second Species Exercises
• Week 11: Three-Voice Imitative First Species Exercises
• Week 12: Three-Voice Exposition Exercises
• Week 12: Three-Voice Fifth Species Exercise
• Week 13: Four-Voice Fifth Species Exercise

TH513 - Theory/Analysis of 20th-Century Music (Prof. David Headlam):

• Week 1: Review of Robert Morris’s Class Notes for Atonal Theory
• Week 1: Review of Robert Morris’s Composition with Pitch-Classes
• Week 1: Short Analysis of Piece III from Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet
• Week 2: Issues in Dave Headlam’s The Music of Alban Berg
• Week 2: Analyses of Edgar Varèse’s Density 21.5
• Week 3: Summary of Cycles and Geometric Symmetry
• Week 3: Analysis of Berg’s op. 4 Altenberg Lieder, nos. 2 and 3 for voice and piano
• Week 4: Definitions and Questions from Joseph Rosen’s Symmetry in Science
• Week 4: Analysis of Berg’s op. 5, no. 2 for clarinet and piano
• Week 5: Summary of David Lewin’s “Transformational Techniques in Atonal and Other Music Theories” with an analysis of Webern’s op. 5, no.2 for string quartet
• Week 6: Summary of David Lewin’s “Klumpenhouwer Networks and Some Isographies That Involve Them” with GIS Table for Chapter 2 of Generalized Music Intervals and Transformations
• Week 8: Analysis of Webern’s Cello Sonata, 1914
• Week 10: Handout for Presentation on Andrew Mead’s “Large-Scale Strategy in Arnold Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music”
• Week 13: Analysis of the “Musette” from Schoenberg’s Piano Suite, op. 25

TH581 - Recent Theories of Rhythm and Meter (Prof. David Temperley):

• Week 1: Questions on Carl Schachter’s “Rhythm and Linear Analysis” in Unfoldings
• Week 2: Questions on Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff’s A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
• Week 3: Questions on “The 1980’s consensus” (Lester, Kramer, Benjamin)
• Week 4: Questions on William Rothstein’s Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music
• Week 5: Questions on Christopher Hasty’s Meter as Rhythm
• Week 6: Questions on Harald Krebs’s Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann
• Week 7: Questions on articles by Richard Cohn, 2001; Richard Cohn, 1992; David Lewin, 1981
• Week 8: Questions on articles by Roger Kamien, 1993; Eric McKee, 2004; David Temperley, 2003
• Week 9: Questions on articles by David Headlam, 1985; Channan Willner, 1998
• Week 10: Questions on readings from John Sloboda, 1985; Dirk-Jan Povel & Peter Essens, 1985; Eric Clarke, 1999
• Week 11: Questions on readings from Justin London, 2004; Christopher Longuet-Higgins & Mark Steedman, 1971; David Temperley, 2001
• Week 11: Questions on readings from Justin London, 2004; Christopher Longuet-Higgins & Mark Steedman, 1971; David Temperley, 2001
• Week 12: Handout for discussion of hypermeter in “The Christian Life” as performed by the Byrds and the Louvin Brothers
• Week 13: Analysis of the Rondo alla zingarese (mvmt. 4) from Brahms’s Piano Quartet, op. 25