Piano Literature MUAG 3270

Course information/Policy Dr. Heejung Kang

Spring 2015

1. Primary Aims of the Course

1) to survey piano music from the 19th through 20th centuries

2) to familiarize students with important piano works in a historical context

3) to examine styles of composition and performance practice

2. The class will be a combination of lecture/ discussion and listening/ playing.

3. Class Presentation/ Performance

1) Each student is responsible for an oral presentation on one of the pieces which will be studied in the class. The student will prepare an informative handout and recording; if possible, the student will demonstrate the piece by playing.

2) Each student should give a final presentation which introduces a piece by 20th century composer (born after 1920). The student should be able to play/demonstrate the piece on the keyboard.

3) Each student is required to play pieces by 2 different composers (12 pages total) EXCLUDING your final presentation composer.

4. Grade (100%)

1) Attendance: Every student is expected to attend all classes. If you have 3 unexplained absences, one lower letter grade will be given. If you make more than 3 absences, the WF grade can be given.

2) Class presentation/ performance/assignment 20%

3) Quiz (week 6) 5%

3) Midterm exam (week 8) 20%

4) Final exam (week 16) 25%

5) There will be five listening exams (30%)

Listening Test I (week 3) – Franck, Fauré. Debussy

Listening Test II (week 7) - Ravel, Messiaën, Albeniz, de Falla

Listening Test III (week 9) – Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Hindemith, Bartok

Listening Test IV (week 12) – Russia/USSR

Listening Test V (week 15) – Ives, Copland, Barber, Carter, Ginastera

9 PIANO LITERATURE SEMESTER OUTLINE Spring 2015 MUAG 3270

Dr. Heejung Kang

Heejung.Kang@unt.edu

Required Reading: Schonberg, Harold C. 1987. The Great Pianists.

Revised and updated. New York: Simon & Schuster.

DATE TUESDAY THURSDAY

Week 1

Jan. 20, 22

Introduction to course, Syllabus, Presentation topic, Performance assignments, etc.

France/Belgium

Saint-Saëns

Franck – Preludes, Chorale & Fugue / Prelude, Aria, and Finale

Fauré

Fauré- Barcarolles, Impromptus, Nocturnes

Chabrier – Bourrée Fantasque

Debussy – Pour le Piano, Arabesque, Suite Bergamasque,

Reading: G.P. pp. 281-290

pp. 363-364

Week 2

Jan. 27, 29

Debussy – Estampes, Image I, Image II, Preludes Book I and II, Etudes

Ravel – Pavane pour une infante d’efunte, Jeux d’eau, Miroirs

Week 3

Feb. 3, 5

Ravel – Gaspard de la nuit, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Sonatine, Concerto in G

Listening Test I: Franck, Fauré, Debussy

Week 4

Feb. 10, 12

Messiaën – 8 Preludes, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jesus, Catalogue d’oiseaux

Spain

Albeniz – Iberia

Granados – Goyescas

De Falla – Piezas españolas, Fantasia Baética

Reading: G.P. pp. 358-362

Week 5

Feb. 17, 19

Germany

Reger, Busoni

Schoenberg – Op. 11, 19

Op.23, 25

Reading: G.P. pp. 366-376 [Busoni]

Berg – Piano Sonata Op.1

Webern – op.27

Hindemith – Sonatas, Ludus Tonalis

Krenek- sonata No.3

Week 6

Feb. 24, 26

Hungary

Bartok – Rhapsody Op.1, Mikrokosmos, Two Rumanian Dances, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, Rumanian Folk Dances

Quiz – French, Spanish, and German composers and works

Week 7

Mar. 3, 5

Bartok - Rumanian Folk Dances, Improvisations, Op.20, Sonata (1926), Out of Doors (1926),

Suite Op.14, Concerto No.2 and 3

Listening Test II: Ravel, Messiaën,

Review for Midterm Exam

Week 8

Mar. 10, 12

Szymanowski-Etudes MazurkasAnton RubinsteinTchaikovskyReading: G.P. pp. 269-280Russia/USSRThe Five-- Balakirev, Mussorgsky

MIDTERM EXAM

Mar. 17, 19 SPRING BREAK

Week 9

Mar. 24, 26 Scriabin

- sonatas,

Etudes, Op.8 and 42, etc.

Listening Test III: Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Hindemith, Bartok, Albeniz, de Falla

Rachmaninoff

- Preludes, Op.23 and 32

Etudes-Tableaux, Op.33 and 39

Sonata No.1

Reading: G.P. pp. 390-399

Week 10

Mar. 31, Apr. 2

Rachmaninoff continued

Sonata No.2

Concerto No. 3

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Reading: G.P. pp. 326-331

[Satie and Les Six]

Stravinsky

- Petrouchka

Sonata (1924)

Week 11

Apr. 7, 9

Prokofiev

- Sonatas Nos. 1-9

Sarcasms

Visions Fugitives

Prokofiev- Concerto Nos. 2 and 3

Shostakovich – 24 Preludes and Fugues

Kabalevsky –Sonata No.2

Week 12

Apr. 14, 16

Listening Test IV: Russia/USSR

United States

MacDowell, Griffes, Ives,

Antheil, Copland, Barber, Crumb, Cowell

Week 13

Apr. 21, 23

Harris, Carter, Perle, others

South America

Villa-Lobos

Ginastera

Late 20th Century

Cage, Adams, Reich

Stockhausen

Week 14

Apr. 28, 30

Nancarrow, Ligeti, Dallapiccola, Berio, Bolcom, Corigliano, Liebermann

Final Presentation

Week 15

May 5, 7

Listening Test V: Ives, Copland, Barber, Carter, Ginastera

Final exam Review

Final Presentation continued

Week 16

May 11-13

FINAL EXAM