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Syllabus
for:
The American
Avant Garde
(MUSIC 145 and MUSIC 220)
University
of California, Irvine
Winter Quarter, 2003
sources for reading
assignments
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| note: All these books are on the
instructor's reserve shelf at the Media Center of the
Claire Trevor School of the Arts. |
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Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and
Beyond, 2d edition. Cambridge |
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University Press, 1999. |
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| supplementary readings (on the instructor's
reserve shelf at the Media Center Library) will be
drawn from: |
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Battcock, Gregory, ed. Breaking the Sound
Barrier: A Critical Anthology of the New |
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Music. E.P. Dutton, 1981. |
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Cage, John. Silence: Lectures and Writings.
Wesleyan University Press, 1961. |
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Holmes, Thomas. Electronic and Experimental
Music, 2d ed. Routledge, 2002. |
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Mertens, Wim. American Minimal Music. Kahn
& Averill, 1983. |
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Nicholls, David, ed. The Cambridge Companion
to John Cage. Cambridge University |
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Press, 2002. |
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Rockwell, John. All American Music:
Composition in the Late Twentieth Century. |
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Knopf, 1983. |
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In addition to these sources, students can refer
to the "American Avant Garde" bibliography. |
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