READING RESOURCES

UPCOMING

Week 1

No readings. prepare the readings for Week 2 and 3.

Week 2 and 3

***Margarita Mazo:

 Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Russian Wedding Ritual

Van Den Toorn

 Les Noces and prohibition of expressive timing

Marina Lupishko

Svadebka as the direct quotation of popular (non-literary) verse

Thomas Turino

Turino Musical Nationalism in Latin America

Mineo Ota

(On Bartok) Why is the spirit of folk music so important

***Edward T. Cone:

Stravinsky-The progress of a method

Stravinsky and his models

Gretchen Horlacher

stravinsky sketches and superinpositions

Dmitri Tymoczko

Stravinsky and the octatonic

***Lynne Rogers

Stravinsky’s break with contrapuntal tradition

Richard Taruskin

 

 Orff Moral Failings. pdf

WEEK 4 –  5               

The French neoclassical school: Poulenc, Duruflé, and other French masters.

Fulcher-Composer as intellectual (33p)

Hyde-Neoclassic and anachronistic impulses (37p)

Taruskin on Neoclassicism (25p)

Poulenc Wartime Secrets (38p)

Poulenc and Robert Shaw (30p)

Durufle’s Requiem and the War (32p)

Durufle’s Requiem (16p)

Copland and a Vision of American Music

Copland- A Theoretical Explanation of “In the Beginning”

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass

Drama and Spirituality in Leonard Bernstein’s Mass

The Lyric Voice in Barber’s Reincarnations

Chowrimootoo_Chapter 5_Burning Fiery Furnace

Kuriyama-Reshaping Musical History: Finzi and the English Music Renaissance

Bowman- A Summary of the narrative in Britten’s War Requiem

Britten’s Russophilia

I don’t know why

Taming the avant-garde

A Trilogy of Innocence (a listening guide for key choral works by Benjamin Britten)

WEEK 6 –   7              

Rational Modernism: Twelve-tone languages and Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Dallapiccola. Moving towards Radical Modernism: The imperative of originality and Messiaen, Stockhausen, Ligeti, Penderecki,  Lutoslawski.

Webern Op 2 and 29: 

Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles: 

Concept of the avant-garde  theory of the avant-garde

The elements of modernism

Messiaen-Tradition, the Avant Garde, and Individuality in the Music of Olivier Messiaen:Musical Influences in Méditations sur la mystère de la Sainte-Trinité

Messiaen- Cinq Rechants: The Conclusion of his Tristan Trilogy

Messiaen- The Musico-theological Critique of Modernism and Postmodernism

Stockhausen –  Adlington Stimmung premiere

Stockhausen- Disturbances in the Dutch premiere

Stockhausen- Stimmung Wikipedia chronicle

Ligeti Roig Francoli – Ligeti Net Structures

Ligeti-Inaudible structures

Ligeti-Voice leading as Spatial Function

Lutoslavski and his sketches for the Trois Poèmes

Lutoslawski . Lutoslawski and sonoristics

Penderecki . Penderecki and notation

Schnittke . I Believe in What Arvo Pärt’s and Alfred Schnittke’s Polystylistic Credos

Berio Berio- Text and meaning in Sinfonia

Teaching post-tonal music Roig Francoli teaching post tonal music    

 

WEEKS 8 AND 9

Schnittke . I Believe in What? Arvo Pärt s and Alfred Schnittke s Polystylistic Credos

Berio Berio- Text and meaning in Sinfonia

Teaching post-tonal music Roig Francoli teaching post tonal music

GOOD FRIDAY

Week 10 and 11 –


Structure and Rehearsal Strategy in Ives’ Psalm 90

Rothko Chapel and Rothko’s Chapel

Reich_Music as Gradual-Process 1

Reich- Music as Gradual Process II

Steve Reich and Hebrew Cantillation

Embodied_meaning_in_John_Adams El Niño

Listening subjects-John Adams and Steve Reich

Textural density in Whitacre’s Choral Works

Murray Schafer Choral Music

PRESENTATION OF PAPER TOPICS

WEEK 11 –  12                

Post-Modernism and the renaissance of sacred music in the Catholic and Lutheran traditions. MacMillan, Sandstrøm. Nordic and Baltic Countries: Rautavaara, Norgard, Tormis.

Music and Global Order

MacMillan’s Choral Works Survey

Phillip Cooke; The Music of James MacMillan

Pay special attention to these chapters:

 (pp. 71-96)

 

The mind and the heart Mysticism and music in the experience of contemporary eastern Orthodox Composers

(Tavener: Ikon of Light)

(Tavener: Sviatyi)

The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Part (you may need to log in with your NDID)

Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred (you may need to log with your NDID)

A video on Vimeo on the personal diaries of Arvo Pärt

Paul Hillier and the Pärt Sound

Part -musical_archetypes_the_basic_elements_of_the_tintinnabuli_style

(Pärt: De Profundis)score

(Pärt: Berliner Messe)score

(Pärt: Adam’s Lament) staged

(Pärt: Adam’s Lament)

(Pärt: La Sindone)

(Pärt: Litany)

(Pärt: Most Holy Mother of God)

(Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten) score

(Pärt: Magnificat Antiphonen: O Weisheit)

(Pärt: Magnificat Antiphonen: O Morgenstern)

Analyzing_Part

76-84  

84-91 

91-101 

(Pärt: Missa Syllabica-Gloria) score

(Pärt: The Beatitudes)

The Beatitudes Score

(Pärt: Sarah was 90 years old)

(Pärt: Da Pacem Domine) score

(Pärt: And One of the Pharisees)

(same: score)

(Pärt: Mein Weg hat)

Part -minimalism_of_Arvo_Pärt_an_antidote_to_modernism_and_multiplicity

159-168 

168 -end 

(Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel) score

WEEK 13 November 15-16

A global sensibility. Challenges for the modern conductor.

Ton de Leeuw-From the 60s to the present

Taruskin- Sacred Entertainments

109-117

118-126

Taruskin Uselesss Composers

The conductor as shaman

84- 95

Inventing the Future of the Arts

1-10

10-18

18-24

Handout 1- Elements of post-modernism in music

Handout 2- Template for interdisciplinary presentations

Commentary

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass

Drama and Spirituality in Leonard Bernstein’s Mass

Purcell- Hear my prayer, O Lord.

Sandstrom- Hear my prayer, O Lord.

Esenvalds- Passion and Resurrection

Golijov – The Passion according to Saint Mark