Pierre Boulez

Le marteau sans maître

Listen to the following track.

Analyse what you hear in this extract in terms of relevent musical features (harmony, melody, rhythm, instrumentation), structural features. (form, phrases, motifs, texture), contextual features (style, time, culture, geography, history)

Here is the 1st page of the score for the piece.

A solution to the listening exercise

Now some further research

Further written tasks (Based on the further research article above.)



Todays theory exercise - Intervals