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Course Materials, 1966-2002 (continued)
BOX 19-21 History of Tonal Theory, 1966-1991
The course also may have been called: History of Theory, Topics in Music Theory, Topics in Tonal Theory, and Topics in Tonality.
The materials primarily focus on the teachings of theorists François-Joseph Fétis, Moritz Hauptmann, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hugo Riemann, Heinrich Schenker, and Gioseffo Zarlino. They include Lewin's lecture notes, writings that accompany and explain assigned readings, scores, bibliographies, reading and listening lists, miscellaneous handwritten notes by Lewin, exams, copies of printed articles and chapters from books, lists of essay topics, and administrative materials.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or university.
BOX-FOLDER 19/16 Babbitt, Milton
Handwritten lecture notes.
BOX-FOLDER 19/17 Fétis, François-Joseph
Typed and handwritten lecture notes, music examples.
BOX-FOLDER 19/18 Final exams from University of California, Berkeley; State University of New York at Stony Brook; and Harvard, 1966-1986
BOX-FOLDER 19/19 Harvard University. Administrative materials and handwritten notes, 1986, 1988, undated
Miscellaneous course notes, reading lists, miscellaneous administrative notes.
BOX-FOLDER 20/1 Harvard University. Materials relating to tonal theory course (230 or 230ar), 1988
Lecture notes, exam, bibliography, music examples, handwritten notes.
BOX-FOLDER 20/2 Harvard University. Materials relating to tonal theory course (230 or 230ar), 1991
List of paper topics, bibliography, lecture notes, music examples, Lewin article, handwritten notes.
BOX-FOLDER 20/3 Harvard University. Student presentations, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 20/4 Hauptmann, Moritz
Typed and handwritten lecture notes.
BOX-FOLDER 20/5 Kurth, Ernst
Article on Kurth and handwritten note.
BOX-FOLDER 20/6 Miscellaneous tonal theory materials
Lecture notes, handouts, exam, handwritten notes, music examples, bibliographies, printed articles.
BOX-FOLDER 20/7 Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Typed and handwritten lecture notes, printed articles.
BOX-FOLDER 20/8 Riemann, Hugo
Handwritten notes and printed articles.
BOX-FOLDER 20/9 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Materials relating to tonality course (533), 1977
Class roster, lecture notes, music examples, reading list, miscellaneous handwritten notes.
BOX-FOLDER 20/10 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Materials relating to topics in tonal theory course (533), 1979
Class rosters, lecture notes, reading lists, miscellaneous handwritten notes.
BOX-FOLDER 20/11 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Materials relating to tonal theory course (533), undated
Handwritten and typed lecture notes, printed articles.
BOX-FOLDER 21/1 Yale University. Materials relating to topics in tonality course (910), circa 1980
Lists of paper topics, items on reserve, and handwritten notes.
BOX-FOLDER 21/2 Zarlino, Gioseffo
Typed and handwritten lecture notes.
BOX 21-23 Math and Music, circa 1973-2002
The course also may have been called: Applications of Modern Mathematics.
Materials from Lewin's courses on probability and communication theory. Includes handwritten lecture notes and exercises, copies of articles, student work and presentations, assignments, handouts, scores, and administrative materials. Throughout this subseries there are several incomplete copies of a set of mathematical exercises (numbers 1-16) that develop various mathematical skills, through the application of composition. Four incomplete copies of Lewin's typewritten textbook that applies the ideas of probability and communication theory to the study of music are also present.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or university.
BOX-FOLDER 21/3 Chart of supertropes
BOX-FOLDER 21/4 Ergodic transition system
BOX-FOLDER 21/5 Exercise 16, old version
BOX-FOLDER 21/6 Exercises 2-9, with annotations and solutions
BOX-FOLDER 21/7 Harvard University. Exercises by student, 2002
Letter from student, class notes and exercises, and assignment.
BOX-FOLDER 21/8 Harvard University. Materials relating to math and music course (230ar), 1987
Course description, letter to students, administrative materials, and class readings and exercises.
BOX-FOLDER 21/9 Harvard University. Student presentations, 2001
BOX-FOLDER 21/10 Harvard University. Student work relating to math and music course (230ar), 1985-1986
BOX-FOLDER 21/11 "Introduction to communication theory, notes for a lecture"
Also includes tables and diagrams labelled "Lewin 1-4."
BOX-FOLDER 21/12 Klumpenhouwer networks (K-nets) handout
BOX-FOLDER 21/13 Materials relating to math course (204br)
Exercises, examples, and grades. Originally labeled as "old math course."
BOX-FOLDER 21/14 Miscellaneous notes with exercises
BOX-FOLDER 21/15--22/6 Probability and communication theory textbook, by Lewin, circa 1973-1974
(8 folders)
Six folders contain three typescript copies of the second half of the book. Two remaining folders contain typescript portions.
BOX-FOLDER 23/1 Schoenberg. III. Streichquartett, opus 30, with four pages of handwritten diagrams and notations
BOX-FOLDER 23/2 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Materials relating to Musical Applications of Modern Mathematics (513)
Course description, bibliography, handouts, articles.
BOX-FOLDER 23/3 Summary sheet and exercises 1-16
BOX 23-25 Texts and Musical Structure, 1976-2000
The course also may have been called: Texted Music.
The materials focus primarily on the following works: Die Schwestern (Brahms), Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, opus 15 (Schoenberg), Ihr Bild, Einsamkeit and Auf dem Flusse (Schubert), Ich stand in dunklen Träumen (Clara Schumann), Auf einer Burg and Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen (Robert Schumann), and Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal (Wagner). Includes essay prompts, lecture notes, handouts, scores, handwritten music figures and examples, lyric sheets, copies of printed articles and chapters from books by Lewin and others, assignments, student presentations, syllabi, exams, bibliographies, Lewin's miscellaneous handwritten notes, and administrative materials.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or university.
BOX-FOLDER 23/4 Assignments on Brahms opus 76, number 4 and on Don Giovanni
BOX-FOLDER 23/5 Brahms, Johannes. Die Schwestern materials
see also Writings. Die Schwestern (lecture copy)
BOX-FOLDER 23/6 Eichendorff, Joseph. Verschwiegene Liebe materials
BOX-FOLDER 23/7 Harvard University. Materials relating to text and musical structure course (157)
Handout with assignment, bibliography, printed article and music example.
BOX-FOLDER 23/8 Harvard University. Materials relating to text and musical structure courses (230, 230ar, 230b), undated
Lecture notes, handouts, scores, music examples, lyric sheet, printed articles.
BOX-FOLDER 23/9 Harvard University. Reading Music with Text: Opera and Art Song, 1999
Materials relating to a Teachers as Scholars seminar.
BOX-FOLDER 23/10 Harvard University. Student presentations, 1994
BOX-FOLDER 23/11 Harvard University. Student presentations, 1996
BOX-FOLDER 24/1 Harvard University. Student presentations, 2000
BOX-FOLDER 24/2 Littlefield, Richard (Rick)
Letter and paper.
BOX-FOLDER 24/3 Mozart. Nozze di Figaro materials
BOX-FOLDER 24/4 Schoenberg, Arnold. Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, opus 15 materials
BOX-FOLDER 24/5 Schubert, Franz. Materials relating to Ihr Bild, Einsamkeit, and Auf dem Flusse
BOX-FOLDER 24/6 Schumann, Clara. Ich stand in dunklen Träumen materials
BOX-FOLDER 24/7 Schumann, Robert. Auf einer Burg and Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen materials
BOX-FOLDER 24/8 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Materials relating to course on Schoenberg (384), 1976-1977
Course outline, exams, music examples, reserve lists, class roster, handwritten notes.
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 Wagner, Richard. Parsifal materials
BOX-FOLDER 24/10 Wagner, Richard. Tristan und Isolde materials
BOX-FOLDER 24/11 Yale University. Materials relating to text and musical structure course (913), 1981
The focus is on Parsifal. Includes lecture notes, handouts, reserve lists, printed articles, libretto, music samples with notes.
BOX-FOLDER 24/12--25/1 Yale University. Materials relating to text and musical structure course (916), 1984
(2 folders)
Lecture notes, assignments, bibliographies, scores, examples, printed articles, student paper.
BOX-FOLDER 25/2 Yale University. Materials relating to text and musical structure course (916a), circa 1985
Lecture notes, bibliographies, scores, examples, printed articles.
BOX-FOLDER 25/3 Yale University. Student presentations on Parsifal for 913 course, 1981
BOX-FOLDER 25/4 Miscellaneous materials
BOX 25 Miscellaneous Courses, 1967-2001
Materials from other courses that Lewin taught primarily at Harvard University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Yale University. Course titles are supplied if they could be discerned from the materials; otherwise general topics are used in folder titles. Includes lecture notes and handwritten analyses, scores, course descriptions, syllabi, printed articles, music samples, reading lists, and handouts.
Arranged alphabetically by university.
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Harvard University. Course 230, 1990
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Harvard University. Development of music theory in North America (230), 2001
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 Harvard University. Late-18th and 19th-Century Theory (300), 1998
BOX-FOLDER 25/8 Harvard University. Music 230ar and Music 230br, Webern materials
BOX-FOLDER 25/9 Harvard University. Responses to Schenker in Recent U.S. Music Theory (250br)
BOX-FOLDER 25/10 Harvard University. Schoenberg (91 or 97), 1999
BOX-FOLDER 25/11 Meter in Webern, undated
University and course number not identified. Includes handwritten lecture notes and assignments and exercises.
BOX-FOLDER 25/12 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Opera (232/233), 1967-1968
BOX-FOLDER 25/13 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Post-tonal theory (534), 1979
BOX-FOLDER 25/14 State University of New York at Stony Brook. Romantic piano music (361)
BOX-FOLDER 25/15 Unidentified. Mus 410 (Brahms handout)
BOX-FOLDER 25/16 Yale University. Beethoven's symphonies (231), circa 1982
Music examples and analytical notes.
BOX-FOLDER 25/17 Yale University. Unidentified course (915), 1979
Class roster and exercises.
BOX-FOLDER 25/18 Yale University. Writing on music (522), circa 1979
BOX-FOLDER 25/19 Miscellaneous materials from unidentified courses
BOX 25-26 Articles on Reserve, 1991-1998
Articles and essays that Lewin put on reserve for Harvard University courses 230 and 230ar.
Arranged alphabetically by author.
BOX-FOLDER 25/20 Articles on reserve, B-R
BOX-FOLDER 26/1-2 Articles on reserve, Lewin
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