Tom Sora : Music Lessons

Lessons in Munich: Musicology, Harmony, Ear training, Composition, Piano / Organ

Musiktheorie der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts

2) Music theory of contemporary or "new" music

I would like to introduce some topics or aspects of contemporary music that you can study with me:

  • • Serialism
    • • Series
    • • Structure / Parameters
  • • postserial music
    • • Sound composition
      • • Sound surfaces / Layers of sound
      • • Micropolyphony
    • • microtonal intervals
    • • Minimalism
      • • Repetition / Modules
      • • Pulse, major/minor triad harmony
      • • Minimalism without pulse and without consonant chords
  • • Postmodern stylistic features
    • • Graphic notation
    • • Sound & noise as music material
    • • Random operations / Aleatorics / Stochastics
    • • Open form
      • • Improvisation
      • • mobile forms
    • • Polystylistics
    • • Neoromantic syntax
  • • Music for machines
    • • electronic music
    • • Live electronics
    • • Music for mechanical instruments
    • • Sound installations