Syllabus for:
The American Avant Garde
 
(MUSIC 145 and MUSIC 220)   
 
University of California, Irvine
Winter Quarter, 2003

sources for reading assignments

note: All these books are on the instructor's reserve shelf at the Media Center of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
required text:
Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, 2d edition. Cambridge
University Press, 1999.
supplementary readings (on the instructor's reserve shelf at the Media Center Library) will be drawn from:
Battcock, Gregory, ed. Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Critical Anthology of the New 
Music. E.P. Dutton, 1981.
Cage, John. Silence: Lectures and Writings. Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
Holmes, Thomas. Electronic and Experimental Music, 2d ed. Routledge, 2002.
Mertens, Wim. American Minimal Music. Kahn & Averill, 1983.
Nicholls, David, ed. The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. Cambridge University
Press, 2002.
Rockwell, John. All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century
Knopf, 1983.

In addition to these sources, students can refer to the "American Avant Garde" bibliography.