Week 5

 

Duke Ellington, Neoclassicism, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis

 

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

 

Listen

 

Scores in week 5 packet

 

    Ellington, “Isfahan,” from Impressions of the Far East Suite, arr. Billy Strayhorn (1964).
    Boulez, I. avant L’artisant furieux from Le Marteau sans maitre
    Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, I
    Xenakis, Metastaseis, mm. 1-100.