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. 30, Introduction

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

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

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

Day 3 - Thursday, Sept. 2: 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, Sept. 3: 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

Monday, Sept. 6 - no class - Labor Day

Day 5 - Wednesday, September 8: 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)

  Thursday, September 9:  No class – Rosh Hashanah

   

Day 6 - Friday, Sept. 10: 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 -Monday, Sept. 13 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 - Wednesday, Sept. 15: 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)

Day 9 - Thursday, Sept. 16: 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 - Friday, Sept. 17:  Practice Quiz, catch up

Sunday, Sept. 19: Wozzeck Viewing Party:  4:00 – 6:00, Dr. Carson’s house

Day 11 - Monday, Sept. 20: Stravinsky breaks the mold, LA5

•   Le Sacre du Printemps (1912)

Day 12 - Wednesday, Sept. 22: 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 - Thursday, Sept. 23: Chapter 6 - Les Six

• Louis Durey

• Germaine Tailleferre 

• 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 - Friday, Sept. 24: 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 - Monday, Sept. 27: 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 - Wednesday, Sept. 29:  Test #1

Day 17 - Thursday, Sept. 30:  Shostakovich Symphonies

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

Day 18 - Friday, Oct. 1:  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 - Mon., Oct. 4 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)

Day 20 - Wednesday, Oct. 6:    Spanish and Latin American composers: Essay #1 due

• 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. 7:  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

Day 22 - Fri., Oct. 8:   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 - Monday, Oct. 11:  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 - Wednesday, October 13: 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 - Thursday, October 14:  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)

Day 26 - Friday, October 15:  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 - Monday, October 18, 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 - Wednesday, October 20

• 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

Thursday and Friday, Oct. 21 – 22:  No class, Fall Break

Day 29 - Monday, October 25

• 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 27:  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. 28: Opera and Musical Theater, LA16, Recital  Program Notes Due

• 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. 29:  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, Nov. 1 - Test #2

Day 34 - Wednesday, Nov. 3: Essay #2 due

• Douglas Moore, Ballad of Baby Doe (1956)

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

Day 35 - Thursday,