Week 5
Read
Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve, “Exploring the World of Duke Ellington,” in Composers’ Voices from Ives to Ellington (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 351–67.
Martha Hyde, Excerpt from "Stravinsky’s neoclassicism," in The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky edit. Jonathan Cross (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 98–102.
Joseph Auner, “Post-World War II Contexts,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013), 191-99.
Pierre Boulez, “Tendencies in Recent Music,” in Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship ed. by Paule Thévenin, tran. by Stephen Walsh (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 173-79.
Joseph Auner, “Electronic Music,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013), 212-14.
Additional Reading/Listening
Nikolas Slonimsky, “The New World of Dodecophonic music,,” in Nikolas Slonimsky: Writings on Music , vol 3 , edit. Electra Slonimsky Yourke (London: Routledge, 2003), 50–55.
Boosey & Hawkes Metastaseis sound score
Listening link and scores
Ellington, “Isfahan,” from Impressions of the Far East Suite, arr. Billy Strayhorn (1964)
Boulez, I. avant L’artisant furieux from Le Marteau sans maitre
Stravinsy, Symphony of Psalms, I
Xenakis, Metastaseis, mm. 1-100.
Other Composers in this period:
American: Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Conlon Nancarrow
British: Michael Tippett
French: Henri Dutilleux
Italian: Luigi Nono
Topics: electronic music, serialism