Week 8
Read
Joseph Auner, "Making Traditions in East Asia,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013), 274–76.
Julian Anderson, “Seductive Solitary. Julian Anderson Introduces the Work of Kaija Saariaho,” The Musical Times 133/1798 (Dec., 1992), 616-19.
Steve Reich, Music as a gradual process (1968).
Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (1976), program note.
Joseph Auner, “Minimalism and its Repercussions," in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013), 278–94.
Listening link and scores
Takemitsu, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977)
Saariaho, Excerpts from The Grammar of Dreams, version for for soprano and electronics (2002) .
Reich, Music for 18 Musicians Part I.
Extra Reading/listening
James Siddons, “Tōru Takemitsu," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002), 508–23.
Steve Reich, Drumming score.
Kaija Saariaho, From the Grammar of Dreams, for soprano and electronics, Divertimento Ensemble