Week 10

Review for Final Exam, Wed. Jun 12, 8:00 a.m.

 

General topics:

• Historical trends,
• 20th. c. composers and folk traditions,
• modernism and its definitions,
• electronic music,
• music and improvisation,
• music and non-Western traditions,
• music and virtuosity,
• the past in the present,
• new musical theater and opera

 

Articles for discussion:

 

• Ton De Leeuw, "Introduction" to Music of the Twentieth Century: A Study of Its Elements and Structure (Amsterdam University Press, 2005)
• Milton Babbitt, “The Composer as Specialist,,” in The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt, ed. Stephen Peles, Milton Babbitt, Stephen Dembski, Andrew Mead, Joseph N. Straus (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), 48–54.
• Lloyd Whitesell, “Twentieth-Century Tonality, or, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” in The Pleasure of Modernist Music ed. Arved Ashby (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004), 103–120.
• Evan Ziporyn, "Who Listens if You Care?" New Observations 86 (1991).
• Laurent Bayle and Catherine Provenzano, "The Interface between Classical Music and Technology," in Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges, edited by Michael Beckerman and Paul Boghossian (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021), 103–118.

 

Final playlist and scores

 

Mahler, Scherzo of Symphony No. 7

Strauss, Last 4 sections of Alpensinfonie

Debussy, La Mer, De L'Aube A Midi Sur La Mer

Ravel, 3 scenes from L'enfant et les sortilèges

Schoenberg, Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16, No. 3 , Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, No. 1

Webern, Five Pieces for String Quartet , Op. 5, Concerto, Op. 24, I

Berg, Final three scenes of Wozzeck, Violin Concerto, I, mm. 1-104

Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Augurs of Spring , Spring Rounds

Janáček, “Frantík,” Nursery Rhymes No. 13, “The White Goat is Picking Pears,” No. 14

Ives, General William Booth Enters Into Heaven

Cowell, The Banshee

Crawford Seeger, String Quartet, IV

Britten, Scene II, The Pagodas from The Prince of the Pagodas

Chávez, movement III Sinfonia India

Messiaen, final cadenza and coda of Oiseaux exotiques

Ellington, “Isfahan,” arr. Billy Strayhorn (1964)

Boulez, I. avant L’artisant furieux from Le Marteau sans maitre

Shostakovich, Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8, I.

Lutosławski, Jeux venitiens, Pt. 1.

Berio, "O King" Sinfonia (1968-69), movement II.

Cage, Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, I and V (1946–48), Aria (1958), TV Köln (1960).

Ligeti, Lontano or orchestra (1967)

Kurtág, 12 microludes for string quartet (1977–1978), I, II and V, Kafka-Fragmente op. 24, Pt I, 3, Versteckte, Kafka-Fragmente Pt II, 4, Schmutzig, bin ich, Milená ...(1946–48).

Grisey, Partiels, mm. 1–23 (1976).

Takemitsu, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977)

Saariaho, Excerpts from The Grammar of Dreams(2002).

Reich, Music for 18 Musicians Part I.

León, Indígena for large chamber ensemble (1991)

Adès, Movement IV, Stars, Sun, Moon from In Seven Days for piano and orchestra (2008)