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American Mavericks: About the Program
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