Tuesday: Roussel, Delage, Hovhaness; Thursday: Cage, Riley, Young, Glass and contemporary hybrids
Reading for Tuesday:
Jann Pasler, "Race, Orientalism, and Distinction in the Wake of the 'Yellow Peril'," in Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2007), 249–82.
Reading for Thursday:
Allison Welch, "Meetings Along the Edge: Svara and Tala in American Minimal Music," American Music 17/2 (Summer 1999), 179–99.
John Cage, "East in West," Asian Music 1/1 (1968–69), 15–18.
John Cage, score, "Solo for Voice 58," from Song Books, vol. 1 (1970)
Excerpt from Kenneth Silverman, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012), pp. 272–74.
Jeremy Grimshaw, "Divergent Dreams", from Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La
Monte Young (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 99–113.
Reading for next Tuesday:
David Locke, "Africa: Ewe, Mande, Dagbamba, Shona," Chapter 3 of Worlds of Music, 3rd shorter edition, ed. Jeff Titon (Schirmer, 2008)
Albert Roussel, Evocations, III. Aux des Bords du Fleuve Sacré
Maurice Delage, Quatre Poèmes Hindous, II. Lahore
Alan Hovhaness, Shambala, Op. 228 (1969)
Ravi Shankar, L'aube enchanteé (1976)
John Cage/Amelia Cuni, 18 Microtonal Ragas, 10 and 12 (from Songbooks, 1970)
La Monte Young and Maria Zazeelak excerpt from 31 VII 69 10:26-10:49 PM (1969)
La Monte Young excerpt from Raga for Ravi
Terry Riley, excerpt Desert of Ice from Shri Camel (1980)
Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar, Meetings Along the Edge from Passages (1990)
John Mayer, Six Ragamalas for solo cello and tanpura, VI (1983)
Wajahat Khan and the Medici Quartet, Indian Dreams, III. Romantic Journey, jhaptal andante, quasi Passacaglia (2004)
Extras:
Amelia Cuni, "Chance Generate ragas in Solo for Voice 58: a Dhrupad Singer Performs John Cage," Journal of the Indian Musicological Society 41 (201-12), 127–54.
Gerry Farrell, "Indian Music and Jazz: reflections of Form," in Indian Music and the West (Oxford University Press, 1999), 188–200.
Albert Roussel, Evocations, III. Aux des Bords du Fleuve Sacré score
John Mayer, Six Ragamalas for solo cello and tanpura, VI
UCI access:
Bernard Hughes, "The Music of Param Vir," Tempo 58/228 (2004), 2–13.
Amelia Cuni, 18 Microtonal Ragas (NAXOS)