Week 3
Béla Bartók, Leoš Janáček, Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Twelve-tone music of Berg and Webern
Read
Amanda Bayley, Excerpt from “The String Quartets and works for chamber orchestra,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bartók, edit. Amanda Bayley (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 151-53; 160-63; 169-171.
Joseph Auner, “Bartók and the search for a mother tongue,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NT: W. W. Norton, 2013), 67–70.
Béla Bartók, “The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music (1931)” in Béla Bartók: Essays, ed. by Benjamin Suchoff (London: Faber & Faber, 1976), 322–23.
Peter Burkholder, Excerpts from "Ives and the Four Musical Traditions," in Peter Burkholder, ed., Charles Ives and His World (Princeton University Press, 1996)
Charles Ives, "Music and Its Future" (1929)
Joseph Auner, “Berg's Allusions to Tonality,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NT: W. W. Norton, 2013), 133-36.
Additional Reading
Scores in week 3 packet
Janáček, “Frantík,” Nursery Rhymes No. 13 and “The White Goat is Picking Pears,” No. 14.
Ives, General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (voice and piano)
Cowell, The Banshee
Berg, Violin Concerto, I, mm. 1-104
Webern, Concerto, Op. 24, I