ANDREWS UNIVERSITY

Department of Music

Fall 2015

MUHL 519 STUDIES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC

Course Calendar

Aug 27 Syllabus. Introduction to the Twentieth Century. Project 1 assigned.

Sep 3 GERMAN LATE ROMANTICISM

RA: Morgan 1-40. Strunk/Morgan 51-58.

PROJECT 1 DUE: Guided Reading Assignment

Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn: “Der Schildwache Nachtlied”

Das Lied von der Erde, #3 “Von der Jugend”

Kindertotenlieder, #5: “In diesem Wetter” Symphony No. 2 #4: “Urlicht”

Sep 10 IMPRESSIONISM & SYMBOLISM

RA:Morgan 40-50.

Forum: Strunk/Morgan 161-166.

PROJECT 2 DUE: MAHLER

Debussy Ariettes oubliées: “C’est l’extase”

Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”

Préludes, Book I: “Voiles”

Ravel Gaspard de la nuit

EXOTICISM & SYNESTHETICS

Debussy Estampes: “Pagodes,” “La soirée dans Grenade”

Ravel Chansons madécasses: “Aoua, aoua”

Skriabin Prometheus

3 Piano Pieces op. 35 #3

Sep 17 EXPRESSIONISM: ATONALITY

Forum: S/M 13-19; Arnold Schoenberg, “National Music,” in Arnold

Schoenberg, Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, 172-174;

Schoenberg, “Brahms the Progressive,” in Style and Idea, 398-441, 532.

Ethan Haimo, “Schoenberg and the Origins of Atonality,” in Julian Brand and

Christoph Hailey, eds., Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the

Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture, p. 71-86. Morgan 62-88.

Ravel La Valse

Schoenberg Erwartung

Three Piano Pieces op. 11 #2

Five Orchestral Pieces op. 16 #1,3,5

Pierrot lunaire op. 21, # 1,7,8

Webern Songs op. 3#1

Bagatelles op. 9 #4, 5

Berg Wozzeck, Act III, Sc 2

Altenberg Lieder op. 4 #2, 5

Sep 24 PRIMITIVISM & FUTURISM

RA: Morgan 89-103; 114-117.

Forum: Strunk/Morgan 161-166; S/M 58-64; 69-76. Henry Cowell, “From ‘New

Musical Resources,’” in Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs, Contemporary

Composers on Contemporary Music, 134-45.

Stravinsky Firebird

The Rite of Spring

Petruchka #1

Les Noces # 1 Russolo The Awakening of a City

Antheil Ballet mécanique

Honegger Pacific 231

Varèse Hyperprism

Ionisation

Milhaud Machines agricoles; Choëphores

Cowell 2 piano pieces: “Banshee”, “The Tides of Manaunaun”

Oct 1 NEW SIMPLICITIES: LES SIX

RA: Morgan 50-54; 159-167.

Forum: S/M 20-24; 172-174; 215-217. Erik Satie, “Mémoires d’un amnésiaque,

and other writings, » in Piero Weiss an Richard Taruskin, Music in the

Western World: A History in Documents, 467-70.

Alan M. Gillmor, “Erik Satie and the Concept of the Avant-Garde,” Musical

Quarterly 69 (Winter 1983):104-19.

Poulenc Banalités: “Hôtel”

Milhaud Le boeuf sur le toit

Satie Parade

Embryons desséchés; Sports et divertissements

NEW SIMPLICITIES: GERMANY & USA

RA: Morgan 220-235; 258-260; 262-263.

Forum: S/M 123-125.

Krenek Johnny spielt auf

Weill Threepenny Opera

Gerswhin Rhapsody in Blue

Hindemith Kammermusik (mvt. 4)

Oct 8 NEO-CLASSICISM

RA: Morgan 168-186; 272-278.

Forum: S/M 24-30.

Scott Messing, “Polemic as History: The Case of Neoclassicism, The Journal of

Musicology 9 (Fall 1991):481-97.

Ravel Sonatina

Debussy Images I: “Hommage à Rameau”

Stravinsky Pulcinella

Concerto for Piano and Winds, #1

Histoire du soldat OR Symphony of Psalms Prokofief Classical Symphony

Hindemith Ludus tonalis

Mathis der Maler

SERIALISM (12-TONE MUSIC)

RA: Morgan 187-219; 260-262

Forum: S/M 85-96; 191-193.

J. Peter Burkholder, “Schoenberg the Reactionary,” in Walter Frisch, ed.,

Schoenberg and His World, 162-91.

J. Peter Burkholder, “Berg and the Possibility of Popularity,” in David Gable and

Robert P. Morgan, eds., Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives, 25-

53. On Reserve at MMC: folder.

Schoenberg Suite for Piano op. 25

Variations for Orchestra op. 31

Piano Piece op. 33a

Berg Lyric Suite, #1

Violin Concerto, # 3

Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra op. 6 #1

Symphony op. 21

String Quartet op. 28 #2

Oct 15 MIDTERM

Oct 22 NATIONALISM I: EUROPE

RA: Morgan 54-61; 103-113; 117-137; 235-250; 266-269.

Forum: S/M 166-172; S/M 125-131.

Bartok Bluebeard’s Castle (opening segment)

Allegro barbaro

Concerto for Orchestra, #5

Piano Concerto, # 1

Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, # 1

Mikrokosmos VI: “6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythms”, # 6 Out of Doors (Piano Suite)

Janacek Sinfonietta

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8

Vaughan-Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Britten Peter Grimes

Holst The Hymn of Jesus (Stolba, 269)

Oct 29 NATIONALISM II: THE AMERICAS

RA: Morgan 137-148; 283-295; 315-322.

Forum: S/M 64-69.

J. Peter Burkholder, “Ives and the Nineteenth-Century European Tradition,” in

Geoffrey Block, and Peter J. Burkholder, eds., Charles Ives and the Classical

Tradition, 11-33;

SM 151-157 (Still, Wilson); Virgil Thomson, “French Music Here,” in

Weiss/Taruskin, Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, 475-76.

Ives Concord Sonata, #3: “The Alcotts”

Three Places in New England

General William Booth’s Entry into Heaven

Symphony No. 4 #1, 2

Copland Lincoln Portrait

Harris Symphony No. 3 & 8

Thomson The Plow that Broke the Plains

Seeger Violin Sonata: Buoyant # 2

Still Afro-American Symphony

Chavez Sinfonia India, # 1

Villa Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras, # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

Ginastera Danzas argentinas

Nov 5 RITUALS, LITURGIES, VOICES OF WAR

PROJECT 3 DUE: SHOSTAKOVICH

Forum: Mervyn Cooke, “Owen, Britten and Pacifism,” in Mervin Cooke, Britten:

War Requiem, 1-19.

Stravinsky In memoriam Dylan Thomas

Messiaën Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Les corps glorieux: “L’ange aux parfums”

Schoenberg Survivor from Warsaw

Britten War Requiem, #1

Penderecki Dies irae (Auschwitz Oratorio)

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Crumb Black Angels

Adams Doctor Atomic

AVANT-GARDE: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC & INDETERMINACY

RA: Morgan 295-314; 359-381.

Forum: S/M 30-35; 176-178; 229-234

Cage 4'33"

TV Köln & Fontana Mix

Sonata and Interlude for Prepared Piano, #2 (DVD)

Chess Pieces

Stockhausen Zyklus

Berio Sequenza for Clarinet

Boulez Third Sonata for Piano

Nov 12 INTEGRAL SERIALISM & ELECTRONIC MUSIC

RA: Morgan 333-358; 461-480.

Forum: S/M 76-82; 96-100.

Babbitt 3 Compositions for Piano

Stockhausen Kreuzspiele & Klavierstück VIII

Messiaën Modes de valeurs et d’intensités: Quatre études de rythme

Boulez Structures I:1

Le marteau sans maître: “L’artisanat furieux”

Varèse Poème électronique

Stockhausen Der Gesang der Jünglinge

Telemusik (score)

Stockhausen Kontakte

Nov 19 MINIMALISM

RA: Morgan 423-433.

Forum: S/M 115-120.

Timothy A. Johnson, “Minimalism: Aesthetic, Style, or Technique?,” Musical

Quarterly 78 (Winter 1994):742-73.

Adams Fearful Symmetries

Riley In C

Reich Piano Phase

Desert Music

Pieces of Wood

Gorecki Symphony No. 3 #1

NEW SOUNDS: TEXTURAL & STOCHASTIC MUSIC

RA: Morgan 381-406.

Forum: S/M 101-114.

Ligeti 3 Fantasies, #2

Atmosphères

Carter A Mirror on Which to Dwell: “Argument”

Xenakis Metastasis

Nov 26 THANKSGIVING BREAK

Dec 3 NEW VIRTUOSITY

PROJECT 4 DUE

RA: Morgan, 390-391; 441-445.

Berio Omaggio à Joyce

Sinfonia for 8 Voices and Orchestra (score)

Crumb Ancient Voices of Children

Night of the Four Moons, #1

Babbitt Phonemena

Mobberly Caution to the Wind

Varese Density for Flute

Berio Sinfonia

Ligeti Aventures

MUSICAL PLURALISM: USES OF THE PAST AND GENERIC REVIVALS;

CROSS-OVER ARTISTS AND RECENT COMPOSERS

RA: Morgan, 407-422; 434-440; 445-460; 481-489.

Forum: S/M 41-48; 224-228; 234-238; 239-244.

Glass Einstein on the Beach

Stravinsky Monumentum pro Gesualdo

Tippett Symphony No. 3

Rochberg Third String Quartet

Zwillich Concerto grosso 1985, # 1

Schnittke Concerto grosso No. 3

Takemitsu Rain Tree

Arvo Pärt De profundis

Berlin Mass

Tavener Hymns of Paradise

Lowell Liebermann Sonata op. 1 no. 1

Schuller 7 Themes on Paul Klee: No. 3 “Kleiner blauer Teufel,”

No. 5 “ Arabische Stadt” Diverse Artists

Film Music

Dec 10 Final Examination: Thursday, 1:30–3:30 p.m.