Week 3
Read
Paul Griffiths, CHWM, pp. 244-57.
Amanda Bayley, Excerpt from “The String Quartets and works for chamber orchestra,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bartók, edit. Amanda Bayley (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 151-53; 160-63; 169-171.
Joseph Auner, “Bartók and the search for a mother tongue,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-fi rst centuries (NT: W. W. Norton, 2013), 67–70.
Béla Bartók, “The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music (1931)” in Béla Bartók: Essays, ed. by Benjamin Suchoff (London: Faber & Faber, 1976), 322–23.
Peter Burkholder, Excerpts from "Ives and the Four Musical Traditions," in Peter Burkholder, ed., Charles Ives and His World (Princeton University Press, 1996)
Charles Ives, "Music and Its Future" (1929)
Joseph Auner, “Berg's Allusions to Tonality,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NT: W. W. Norton, 2013), 133-36.
Listening link and scores
Bartók, String Quartet No. 4, IV
Janáček, “Frantík,” Nursery Rhymes No. 13
Janáček, “The White Goat is Picking Pears,” Nursery Rhymes No. 14
Ives, General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (voice and piano)
Cowell, The Banshee
Berg, Violin Concerto, I, mm. 1-104
Webern, Concerto, Op. 24, I
Additional Reading
Nicholas Slonimsky, "Ives Musical Rebel," from Writings on Music
Malcolm Gillies,"Béla Bartók," Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002)
Paul Wingfield,"Leoš Janáček," Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde.
Donald Walker,"Charles Edward Ives," Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde.
The Ruhrklavierfestival Explore the Score site: Bartók
Composers discussed in CHWM, pp. 244-57:
American: Henry Cowell, Charles Ives
Czech: Bohuslav Martinů, Erwin Schulhoff
French: Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Albert Roussel, Edgard Varèse
Hungarian: Béla Bartók
German/Austrian: Hanns Eisler, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill
Russian: Dmitry Shostakovich
Topics: electronic music, serialism