Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

Article Title

A Study of Donald Grantham’s Fantasy Variations: Broad Musical Connections in Core Theory Classes

Authors

Amy Carr-RichardsonFollow

Abstract

This article contains analytical comments on Donald Grantham’s Fantasy Variations, which is based on George Gershwin’s Prelude II (“Blue Lullaby”), focusing on its pedagogical use in a core undergraduate theory class. It proposes encouraging students to make broad musical connections regarding tonality, temporality, and developmental process, across a wide range of musical repertoire. The article discusses the analysis of Fantasy Variations in relation to these topics: pedagogical transitions between the study of tonal and post-tonal music, the process of development, non-linear aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first century music, and musical borrowing.

Recommended Citation

Carr-Richardson, Amy (2011) "A Study of Donald Grantham’s Fantasy Variations: Broad Musical Connections in Core Theory Classes," Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1 , Article 3.

Available at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/gamut/vol4/iss1/3