Week 6

 

Dmitri Shostakovich, Luciano Berio, Witold Lutosławski, John Cage, Discussion of Modernism and the role of the composer in society

 

Read

 

    Joseph Auner, “Shostakovich,” “The Past in the Present,” and “Cage and Chance,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013), 183-88, 258–61, 200-10.
    Michael O'Brien, "Witold Lutosławski Venetian Games," The Moldenhauer Archives, Library of Congress.
    John Cage, “The Future of Music: CREDO,” from Silence: Lectures and Writings (Wesleyan, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961)
    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.

Additional Sources

 

Listen

 

Scores in week 6 packet

 

    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).
    Cage, Aria (1958).
    Cage, TV Köln (1960).