Week 3: Rhythm

• Pair up
  • Show the other person what you made.
  • What was fun? Challenging? Confusing? Illuminating? Puissant?
  • Find a way of performing one of the scores!

• Performances / Presentations

• Unmetered Time
  • Cadenzas
  • Cage's Time Bracket Notation
  • Free / proportional notation
• Pulse and Tempo
  • Subjective Tempo:
    • Andante
    • Adagio
    • Moderato
    • Presto
    • Prestissimo
    • Langsam
    • Insanely fast
  • Objective tempo / BPM
  • The range humans are sensitive to.

BREAK

• Conducting in simple meters and composing rhythms
  • 3/4
  • 4/4
  • 5/4?
  • 17/4?!?!?
  • Concept of indespensibility
• Meter and Heirarchy
  • Compound, duple, triple
  • Additive Meter, e.g. Blue Rondo a la Turk. There's a great visualization on the Wikipedia Page.
  • Heirarchy of 3/4 vs 6/8
  • Hypermeter and Phrase Groupings:
    • Haydn, London Symphony
    • The Decemberists, Lake Song. Take a Look at this analysis by some guy

• Explain Rhythm Composition Assignment

• What's Going on With These?!?!?: (Metric Modulation)
  • Hiatus Coyote
  • Taylor Eigsti (especially the end!?!?)