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American Mavericks: About the Program

Angels in America


COURSE SCHEDULE

Aug 28 Listening ///// Read Chapters 1-4, and Chapter 9
observation, sources of sound, scores, “what is music?”

Aug 29 Attend Lawrence/Kairoff recital. Brendle Recital Hall, 8:00PM
concert report

Sept 2 Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra / Charting scores
definition of music postings
concert report rough drafts

Sept 4 Musical inevitability - Historical necessity
Wagner, Liszt, Mahler

Sept 9 Late, late Romanticism -- Liszt, Scriabin, Berg, Schoenberg

Sept 11 Expressionism -- Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Berg: Wozzeck, Webern: Op. 10, No. 4

Sept 16 Impressionism -- (...La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune); Nuages

Sept 18 Stravinsky -- Firebird, Le sacre du printemps ///// Read Chapters 5, 6

Sept 23 Serialism -- Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, first theme, Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31,
Berg: Violin Concerto, Webern: Concerto, Op. 24, Variations, Op. 27 ///// Read Chapters 10, 11

Sept 25 Neoclassicism -- Prokofief: Symphony No. 1, Stravinsky: L’histoire du soldat,
Bartok : Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste

Attend a performance of Angels in America – Scales Fine Arts Center:
Procenium Theatre, Sept. 26, 27, Oct. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7:30 PM, or Oct 5, 2 PM

Oct 2 Varese -- Ameriques, Integrales, Ionization ///// Read Chapters 12, 13

Attend a performance of Tosca – Stevens Center, 4th Street
Oct 3, 8 PM; Oct 5, 2 PM; Oct 7, 7:30 PM

Oct 4 Ives -- Symphony No. 2, The Rockstrewn Hills, Hanover Square,
Three Places in New England, Symphony No. 4, The Unanswered Question

Oct 7 An American movement -- Antheil, Gershwin, Copland

Oct 9 American Independents -- Cowell, Crawford, Ruggles, Partch, Nancarrow

Oct 14 Early Cage

Oct 16 Cage’s “Forerunners of Modern Music”

Oct 21 John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes. M305

Oct 23 Preliminary reports

Oct 28 Book exam

Oct 30 Preliminary reports

Nov 4 Morton Feldman // Osvaldo Golijov

Nov 6 No classtime meeting
Attend St. Lawrence String Quartet with Todd Palmer, clarinet:
Osvaldo Golijov’s The Prayers and Dreams of Issac the Blind.
Brendle Recital Hall, 7:45 PM – 10:00 PM

Nov 9 Attend Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories. Brendle Recital Hall, 7:30 – 10:00 PM

Nov 13 Discussions of performances
“The New York School” – Indeterminacy

Nov. 16 Attend Giovanni Battel’s recital. Brendle Recital Hall, 8:00 PM

Nov 18 Group project on CDs
Messiaen – Stockhausen

Nov 20 Student Reports

Nov 25 Shostakovich – Ustvolskaya

Dec 2 Student Reports
Elliot Carter

Dec 4 Student Reports
Minimalism

Dec 5 Attend University Orchestra concert. Brendle Recital Hall, 8:00 PM

Dec 12 Final exam period (2 pm). Student Reports

 

Graded Items

7 Concert Reports 15 pt (100 total)
Brief Papers and Class Assignments 120 total
Book Exam 100 pt
Class Report 100 pt
Listening Journal 250 pt

NOTE: This is a pre-semester, “good faith” estimate of grading values. The instructor retains the right to make adjustments which reflect the actual work done.

 


The Listening Journal will include all of the music covered in class, personal additions of your own choosing, and the following list. For multi-movement works, you may consider one movement in detail and write more general comments about the rest of the composition .

Examples of Listening Journal entries will be provided and discussed in class.

Scriabin: Poeme de l’extase
Debussy: Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune; Jeux
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21; Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Antheil: Ballet Mechanique
Gershwin: “I’ve Got Rhythm” Variations
Varese: Integrales; Deserts
Berg: Violin Concerto
Webern: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30; Symphonie, Op. 21
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps; Symphonie of Psalms; Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Crawford: String Quartet
Cage: Third Construction in Metal; a large work from after 1975
Copland: Billy the Kid; Piano Quartet
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Harris: Symphony No. 3
Piston: Symphony No. 6
Partch: Castor and Pollux
Messiaen: Turangalila
Stockhausen: Gesang der Junglinge; Lichter-Wasser
Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children or Black Angels
Rochberg: Third String Quartet
Martino: Notturno
Xenakis: Morsima – Amorsima; Jalons
Carter: String Quartet No. 2
Berio: Sinfonia
Takemitsu: How Slow The Wind
Ligeti: Lontano
Feldman: Rothko Chapel
Zwilich: Chamber Symphony
Reich: Tehillim
Guibaidulina: Pro et Contra
Lutoslawski: Symphonie No. 4
Rihm: Time Chant
John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music


Examples of topics for Student Reports

Beach
Faure
Britten
Hindemith
Ludoslawski
Xenakis
Piston
Indeterminacy
Brown
Nancarrow
The Fluxus movement
Nono
Moderna
Britwhistle
Post-serial composition
Electronic music
Cardew
specific composition(s): Cage: Inlets
Cage: Number Pieces
Ashley: Improvement


ATTEND one art show of contemporary art. At Wake Forest, these two shows
will be mounted this semester in the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery:

pixerina WITCHERINA - August 25 – October 10

An exhibition featuring contemporary women artists who address the complex history of women and storytelling. The title was taken from an invented language used by Virginia Woolf to share secrets with her niece, and refers to the polarization of women’s roles in fairy tales as either innocent, flirtatious “pixies” or maleficent, plotting “witches.” The exhibition was organized by University Galleries of Illinois State University. (Exhibition Catalog)
Exhibiting Artists:
Meghan Boody Tracey Moffatt Amy Cutler Maria Porges
Margi Geerlinks Amy Sillman Claudia Hart Elena Sisto
Julie Heffernan Karen Arm Julia Latané Katharina Fritsch

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Contemporary Cuban Art - October 24 – January 28

Opening Reception: Friday October 24th, 7pm
Lecture by exhibition curator David Hart at 6pm

This exhibition assembles the recent work of artists born and educated in Cuba. All of the artists come from diverse backgrounds, live either in Cuba or the United States and exhibit throughout the world. The works in this exhibition are executed in a range of media including paintings, photographs, sculpture and multimedia installations that engage intellectual issues from the personal and psychological to larger social issues. (Exhibition Catalog)
Exhibiting Artists:
Juan Carlos Alom, José Bedia, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Raul Cordero, Carlos Estévez, Carlos Caraicoa, Elsa Mora, Olympya, Fernando Rodriquez, and José Angel Vincench.

Art gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm, Sat. and Sunday, 1pm – 5pm
Phone: 336-758-5585 Closed during University Holidays