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
Gretchen Horlacher
stravinsky sketches and superinpositions
Dmitri Tymoczko
***Lynne Rogers
Stravinsky’s break with contrapuntal tradition
Richard Taruskin
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)
Durufle’s Requiem and the War (32p)
Copland and a Vision of American Music
Copland- A Theoretical Explanation of “In the Beginning”
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
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.
Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles:
Concept of the avant-garde theory of the avant-garde
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-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
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.
MacMillan’s Choral Works Survey
Phillip Cooke; The Music of James MacMillan
Pay special attention to these chapters:
(pp. 71-96)
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
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(Pärt: Most Holy Mother of God)
(Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten) score
(Pärt: Magnificat Antiphonen: O Weisheit)
(Pärt: Magnificat Antiphonen: O Morgenstern)
76-84
84-91
91-101
(Pärt: Missa Syllabica-Gloria) score
(Pärt: Sarah was 90 years old)
(Pärt: And One of the Pharisees)
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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
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
Drama and Spirituality in Leonard Bernstein’s Mass
Purcell- Hear my prayer, O Lord.
Sandstrom- Hear my prayer, O Lord.