Week 8

 

Tōru Takamitsu, Kaija Saariaho, Steve Reich and American Minimalism

 

Read

 

    Joseph Auner, "Making Traditions in East Asia,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013), 274–76).
    Julian Anderson, “Seductive Solitary. Julian Anderson Introduces the Work of Kaija Saariaho,” The Musical Times 133/1798 (Dec., 1992), 616-19.
    Steve Reich, "Music as a gradual process" (1968), and Music for 18 Musicians (1976), program note.
    Joseph Auner, “Minimalism and its Repercussions," in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013), 278–94.

Additional Sources

 

Listen

 

Scores in week 8 packet

 

    Takemitsu, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977).
    Saariaho, Excerpts from The Grammar of Dreams, version for for soprano and electronics (2002).
    Reich, Music for 18 Musicians, Part I.