The following list includes the pieces that will be played in class or required on your listening assignments (subject to change).  All assignments are listed on the due date.  The listening assignments (LA1-23) include the works that will appear on listening tests.  I strongly recommend that you read the program notes and personnel lists of every recording you listen to in the library.  When available, please follow scores while listening in the library.  When the library is not available, you may take advantage of the electronic reserves through the Moodle system.  Instructions may be found on the next page, with the Listening List.

 I recommend that you follow the links to composer information in the schedule below. You can also find links to practically every composer we will discuss in the more general sites listed here.
 

Day 1 - Monday, Aug. 24, Introduction

• Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra - opening of Kubrick film 2001:  A Space Odyssey

Day 2 - Wednesday, Aug. 26: Chapters 1 & 2: The Past and the Sources

• Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Four Last Songs

Day 3 - Thursday, Aug. 27: Mahler Symphonies, LA1

• Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1, 2, (video clips for symphonies 1 and 2) a website about 9

• Mahler as painted by composer Arnold Schoenberg

Day 4 - Friday, Aug. 28: Chapter 3: French Impressionism - Paris

• Claude Debussy , La Mer,  Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, Syrinx, Arabesques, Sunken Cathedral

  • Detour: World Music: Javanese Gamelan

• Golliwog's Cakewalk 

• Bix Beiderbecke , In a Mist

Day 5 - Monday, August 31: The French, LA2

• Detour: Electronic Transcriptions: Tomita , Snowflakes are Dancing (Japan)

• Erik Satie Three Waltzes of the Fastidious Dandy (video)

  • Detour: Scott Joplin , Maple Leaf Rag

• Trois Gymnopedies

  • Detour: Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Trois Gymnopedies

• Maurice Ravel , Bolero (World Music: Spanish Folk Music), Pavane pour une infante defunte

  • Detour: Morton Gould , Pavane, John Coltrane , Impressions (African influence)

Day 6 - Wednesday, September 2: From France to Russia, LA3

• Gabriel Faure , Requiem

• John Phillip Sousa , Stars and Stripes

• Garde Republicain: Florent Schmitt, Dionysiaques

• Alexander Skriabin , Symph #3, Poeme de l'extase (1908) (Synaesthesia)

• Alexander Mosolov , The Iron Foundry (Technological influences) - visual cognate - Diego Rivera, especially his murals at the Detroit Institute of Art.

Day 7 - Thursday, Sept. 3 Chapter 4 - Vienna, Expressionism, Le Cri, Edvard Munch and the beginning of Atonality

• Arnold Schoenberg , Verklarte Nacht, Pierrot Lunaire (1912) Mondestrunken - Valse de Chopin

• Schoenberg was also a visual artist.

• Anton Webern , Passacaglia, Op. 1

Day 8 - Friday, Sept. 4: More of the Second Viennese School, LA4

• Anton Webern, Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 (Webern can be seen in the middle of this drawing by his teacher, Arnold Schoenberg)

• Alban Berg , Wozzeck (1914-22) (Schoenberg also painted Berg)

Monday, Sept. 7 - no class - Labor Day

Day 9 - Wednesday, Sept. 9: Chapter 5 -   Stravinsky before the Rite

• Igor Stravinsky , L'Oiseau de Feu (1909-10), Petrouchka

• Here is a drawing of Stravinsky by Pablo Picasso

Day 10 - Thursday, Sept. 10:  Practice Quiz, catch up

Day 11 - Friday, Sept. 11: Stravinsky breaks the mold, LA5

•   Le Sacre du Printemps (1912)

Sunday, Sept. 13:  Wozzeck Viewing Party:  3:00 - 5:00, Marquis 201

Day 12 - Monday, Sept. 14: How do you top that? Stravinsky after Rite of Spring, LA6

• Detour: World Music: Europe: Bulgaria: Don Ellis , Electric Bath: Bulgarian Bulge

• Igor Stravinsky, Les Noces, L'Histoire du Soldat, Ragtime, Pulcinella, Symphonies of Wind Instruments,   Symphony of Psalms, Ebony Concerto, Star Spangled Banner

Day 13 - Wednesday, Sept. 16: Chapter 6 - Les Six

• Louis Durey

• Germaine Tailleferre , Concertino for Harp and Orchestra

• Georges Auric , Trois Interludes (in French. For a translation, follow these instructions)

• Darius Milhaud , Le Boeuf sur le toit, La Creation du monde, Suite Francaise for Band (World Music: Europe: France),

• Detour: Dave Brubeck , Blue Rondo a la Turk, Take Five ( Paul Desmond )

• Francis Poulenc , Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1962)

• Arthur Honegger, Le Roi David , Pacific 231

Day 14 - Thursday, Sept. 17: Chapter 7 - Hindemith, LA7

• Paul Hindemith , Hin und Zuruck, Clarinet Sonata, Mathis der Maler, Symphony in Bb for Band

• Carl Orff , Carmina Burana

• Leos Janacek , Sinfonietta

• Aram Khachaturian , Sabre Dance from Suite Gayaneh (World Music: Europe: Armenia)

• Dmitri Kabalevsky , Comedian's Galop

Day 15 - Friday, Sept. 18: Chapter 8 - The Russians, LA8

• Sergei Rachmaninoff , Variations on a Theme of Paganini

• Sergei Prokofiev , Classical Symphony (1916), Lieutenant Kije, Alexander Nevsky , Romeo and Juliet (1935-36), Peter and the Wolf (1936)

Day 16 - Monday, Sept. 21:  Test #1

Day 17 - Wednesday, Sept. 23:  Shostakovich Symphonies

• Dmitri Shostakovich , Symph. No. 1, 5, 7( Franz Lehar - The Merry Widow), 9, 13

Day 18 - Thursday, Sept. 24:  Bartok,  LA9

• Bela Bartok, Allegro Barbaro

  • Detour: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, The Barbarian

• Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste

• Mikrokosmos

• Concerto for Orch. (1942-43)

  • Detour: Shostakovich, Symph. #7

Day 19 - Friday, Sept. 25 LA10

• Detour: Bela Fleck, Tales from the Acoustic Planet, World Music: Asia: Tabula Rasa (1997)

• Zoltan Kodaly , Hary Janos (World Music: Europe: Hungary)

• Scandinavia and Italy: Two extremes that weren't too extreme!

  • Jean Sibelius, Finlandia, Symph. No. 2 (1901-02)

  • Feruccio Busoni, Sonatina for Piano

  • Ottorino Respighi , Pines of Rome (Introduction of technology in Art Music)

 Monday, Sept. 28 - no class – Yom Kippur

Day 20 - Wednesday, Sept. 30:    Spanish and Latin American composers:

• Manuel DeFalla , Tri-Cornered Hat, El Amor Brujo (World Music:  Spanish Folk Music)

• Joaquin Turina , Poema en forma de canciones

• Carlos Chavez , Sinfonia India, Tocatta for Percussion

Day 21 - Thursday, Oct. 1:  South Americans

• Heitor Villa-Lobos , Bachianas Brasilianas #9, Choros #10 (World Music:  Native American Chant)

• Alberto Ginastera , Estancia

  • Detour: World Music: South America: Argentina: Astor Piazzola , Tango: Zero Hour

Friday, Oct. 2:  No class (Dr. Carson schedule conflict)

Day 22 - Mon., Oct. 5:   Americans, Pt. I, Recital Repertoire Due, LA11

• Charles Ives , Unanswered Question (1906), Three Places in New England (1908-14), The Circus Band, Psalm 67

• George Antheil , Ballet Mecanique (1925)

• Carl Ruggles , Men and Mountains, Sun-Treader

Day 23 - Wednesday, Oct. 7: Essay #1 due, LA12

• Roger Sessions , Black Maskers

• William Grant Still , Miniatures for Fl, Ob, Piano, Symphony #3 (World Music: North America: Black American Culture)

• Roy Harris , Symph. #3 (1937)

• Howard Hanson, Symph #2

Day 24 - Thursday, October 8: LA13, 

• Samuel Barber , Adagio for Strings, Knoxville, Summer of 1915, Commando March

• Walter Piston , Three New England Sketches, III.  Mountains, Tunbridge Fair

• Peter Mennin , Canzona

• William Schuman , New England Triptych, George Washington Bridge

• Vincent Persichetti, Symph. #6

Day 25 - Friday, October 9:  Aaron Copland

• Aaron Copland , Piano Variations (1930), Music for the Theater, El Salon Mexico (World Music: North America, Mexico), Billy the Kid (1938) (World Music: North America: United States), Rodeo (1942), Fanfare for the Common Man (WWII)

Monday, Oct. 12, No Class: Fall Break

Day 26 - Wednesday, October 14:  LA14

• The Tender Land, Appalachian Spring (1943-44), Symph. #3 (1944-46), I Bought Me a Cat (World Music: North America: United States), Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, Lincoln Portrait

Day 27 - Thursday, October 15, The Brits,  Chapter 9

• Percy Grainger , Lincolnshire Posy (World Music: Europe: England)

• Edward Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance, Enigma Variations

• William Walton , Crown Imperial, Facade

Day 28 - Friday, October 16

• Gustav Holst, The Planets , First Suite, Second Suite (World Music: Europe: British Folk Music)

• Vaughan Williams , Folk Song Suite (World Music: Europe: British Folk Music), Sinfonia Antartica

Day 29 - Monday, October 19

• Benjamin Britten , Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, War Requiem (1961), The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966)

  • Detour: World Music: Asia: Indonesia and Javanese Gamelan

Day 30 - Wednesday, October 21:  Italian Opera at the Beginning of the 20th Century, LA15

• Giacomo Puccini , La Boheme (1896)

• Madame Butterfly (1904)

• Detour: Traditional Dances of Japan, Folk Music of Japan, Folk Songs of Japan, Koto Consort

Day 31 -Thursday, Oct. 22: Opera and Musical Theater, LA16

• Kurt Weill , The Three Penny Opera (1928) (Mack the Knife)

  • Detour: Ella Fitzgerald, Mack The Knife

• George Gershwin , Porgy and Bess (1935), Summertime

  • Detour: Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Joe Henderson : Porgy and Bess

Day 32 - Friday, Oct. 23:  More Opera - Britain and More

• Virgil Thomson, Four Saints in Three Acts

• Benjamin Britten , Peter Grimes, Choral Dances from Gloriana, a MUST-SEE website about Death in Venice and author Thomas Mann.  Note the information about the relationship of the story with Gustav Mahler.

Day 33 - Monday, Oct. 26 - Test #2

Day 34 - Wednesday, Oct. 28

• Douglas Moore, Ballad of Baby Doe (1956)

• Leonard Bernstein , West Side Story, I Hate Music, Chichester Psalms, MASS

Day 35 - Thursday, Oct. 29: Chapters 10 and 11 - Schoenberg and "The System", Recital  Program Notes Due

• Arnold Schoenberg, Moses und Aron (1932), A Survivor from Warsaw (1947) (World Music:  Jewish Chant)

• Alban Berg, Lulu (1928-1935), Violin Concerto (to the Memory of an Angel,) (1935)

Day 36 – Friday, Oct. 30

• Anton Webern, Theme and Variations from Symph, op 21, mvt. II, Das Augenlicht, Op. 26 (1935)

• Ernst Krenek , Johnny Spielt Auf, Monologues for Clarinet (live performance)

• Hans Werner Henze , Requiem

Day 37 - Monday, Nov. 2

• Olivier Messaien , Quartet for the end of time (1940) see also http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9811/opinion/linton.html, Oiseaux exotiques (1955-56)

• Witold Lutoslawski , Livre pour Orchestra (1968), Dance Preludes

Day 38 - Wednesday, Nov. 4:  American Innovators, Chapter 12, Essay #2 due: LA17

• Harry Partch , The Rose

• Henry Cowell , the Banshee

• Edgard Varese , Ionisation (1929-31), Density 21.5 (1936)

Day 39 - Thursday, Nov. 5: LA18, Chapter 13

• Edgard Varese , Nocturnal (completed by Chou) (World Music:  Mayan chant)

• Chou Wen Chung , Echoes from the Gorge (World Music:  China )

• Chinary Ung, Grand Spiral (World Music:  Cambodia )

Day 40 - Friday, Nov. 6: Electronic Music, Test #3  - takehome

• Electronic Music Electronic Music (see also http://www.phinnweb.com/history/)

• Edgard Varese , Deserts (1954), Poeme Electronique (1958) - here is the building for which it was composed (in front of the building are architect Le Corbusier, Var�se and Philips director Louis Kalff)

• Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, musique concrete : Symphonie Pour Une Homme Seul

Day 41 - Monday, Nov. 9: Chapter 11 -  Ultra-Rationality and Serialism, LA19,

• Yannis Xenakis (in French. For a translation, follow these instructions), Bohor I (1962)

• Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky

• Wendy (Walter) Carlos , A Clockwork Orange

• Karlheinz Stockhausen , Gesang der Junglinge (1955-56), Kontakte (1959)  

Day 42 - Wednesday, November 11 Chapter 15 - The Composers Let Go

• Luciano Berio , Sinfonia (1968), Visage

• Milton Babbitt , All Set (1957), Philomel (1964), Part I

• John Cage , 4'33" (1952), Fontana Mix, Aria and Fontana Mix, Sonatas and Interludes

• Paul Ignace , It Is for Orchestra

• Earle Brown , Available Forms 1

Day 43 - Thursday, Nov. 12: Chapters 16 and 17, LA20

• Ornette Coleman , Free Jazz

• Pierre Boulez (in French. For a translation, follow these instructions), Le Marteau sans Maitre (1952-54, rev. 57)

• George Crumb , Ancient Voices of Children (1970), Black Angels (1970)

Day 44 - Friday, Nov. 13

• Gyorgy Ligeti , Atmospheres, Requiem

• Krzysztof Penderecki , Threnody: to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)

Day 45 - Monday, Nov. 16:  Chapter 18 - Bring Back the Audience: Return to Simplicity

• Stan Getz and Samba, Chega de Suadade (World Music: South America: Brazil)

• Cool/West Coast/Third Stream: Miles Davis/ Gil Evans , Concierto de Aranjuez

• Detour: Joaquin Rodrigo , Concierto de Aranjuez

Day 46 - Wednesday, Nov. 18:  Chapter 19 - More of "Less is More" LA21 Research paper Rough Draft Due (Paper copy only)

• Steve Reich , Come Out (1966), Different Trains, Electric Counterpoint

Day 47 - Thursday, Nov. 19

• Philip Glass , Einstein on the Beach

  • Detour: World Music: Asia: India Ravi Shankar  

  • John Coltrane, Alabama (SCCJ)

• John Adams , Short Ride on a Fast Machine (1986), Nixon in China (1986-67)
  • Detour: World Music: Asia: China, Singing Bowls of Tibet, Songs of the Yuman Province
  • Detour: World Music: Oceania: Polynesia: Steve Turre (before you click on this, make sure you have your headphones on and make sure the computer sound is not muted), conch shells and trombone

Day 48 - Friday, Nov. 20:  Don’t Forget the Women, LA22

• Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
• Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931

• Louise Talma, Leap Before You Look

• Meredith Monk, Turtle Dreams

• Ellen Taffe Zwilich , Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra

Monday, Nov. 23 through Friday, Nov. 27, No Class:  Thanksgiving Break

Day 49 - Monday, Nov. 30: Don’t Forget the Women, Part II, Chapter 20

• Sofia Gubaidulina , Rejoice! Sonata for Violin and Cello: Mvt. V
• Joan Tower , Silver Ladders
• Libby Larsen , Sonnets from the Portuguese
• Shulamit Ran , Private Game

Day 50 - Wednesday, Dec. 2: Current Currents, Chapter 21 LA23

• David del Tredici , Final Alice
• Henryk Gorecki , Symph #3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1976)

• (rehearse In C)

Day 51 - Thursday, Dec. 3

• Alfred Schnittke , String quartet No. 3
• Toru Takemitsu , Les Yeux Clos, Toward the Sea
• John Corigliano , Symph #1, Altered States, Red Violin

Day 52 -  Friday, Dec. 4: Research Paper Final Draft Due  (must return rough draft with it), Evaluation Forms

• Michael Daugherty , Metropolis
• David Lang , Are You Experienced

Day 53 - Monday, Dec. 7

• Catch up

 Tuesday, December 8: Special Session:  Recital, 11:00 a.m., D-K (10:30 setup)

• Terry Riley , In C (1968)

Friday, Dec. 11 (8 am): Course evaluation, Notebook Due, Takehome Final Examination Due

Your final grade will be sent to you by email.  You make pick up your notebook during the first two weeks of spring term.  Any notebooks not picked up after Feb. 1 will be discarded.

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