MuCT6170 Homework for Tuesday, February 7

Reading
Straus, chapter 3: 3.8-3.9 (Inclusion Relations and Transpositional
Combination)

Analysis work (for discussion in class, to be graded only as completed/not

completed)
Guided Analysis 3.3
George Crumb, Vox Balaenae, Vocalise (for the Beginning of
Time).
A copy of the score is posted on Canvas.

Begin by reading through the questions & hints on p. 154.

Where does the [2458TE] set first appear in the score?

Does this set recur and/or does Crumb use other (Tn/In-related)
members of this set class, and if so, where? If so, does he seem
to be interested in common-tone connections and/or a pattern of
T/I relationships?

Straus notes that this set has interesting TC potential, in that it

can be thought of in terms of pairs of tritone-related (013),
(014), (025), or (026) trichords. Are there any moments where
these relationships are directly presented? Are there other
points in the piece where these trichords or the tritone interval
are emphasized in some way? How do these relationships
contribute to overall form/development in the piece?

How is the slightly mangled quotation from Also sprach

Zarathustra incorporated into the pieces pitch world? How does
pitch organization express the notion of the beginning of time,
the creation of form and life from the primordial void?