Class Schedule: Music 256 (Fall 2014)
Date
Topics,
Tests & Due Dates
Listening Assignments
Scores (NAWM 7th ed = Norton Anthology of Western Music)
Audio: Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, volume 3:
available online with text registration
T Sept 9
&
Th Sept 11
Introduction
19th-century Precedents & New Directions
T Sept 16
&
Th Sept 18
The French Revolution: Debussy, Ravel & Satie NAWM 167: Debussy, Nocturnes, I: “Nuages”
♬ Debussy, “La cathédrale engoutie” from Preludes, Book 1
♬ NAWM168: Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin, Menuet
NAWM 171: Satie, Embryons desséchés No. 3, “De Podophthalma”
Text Reading
(HWM, 9 ed)
778-781
♬ Musorgsky, “The idle, noisy day is ended”, Song No. 3 from Sunless
♬ Liszt, Nuages gris
NAWM 149a) Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Prelude (vol. 2 online)
764-771
790-799
808-809
T Sept 23
&
Th Sept 25
The Russian Revolution: Scriabin & Stravinsky
NAWM 170: Scriabin, Vers la flamme
801-803
NAWM 176: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (“Dances of the Adolescent Girls” & “Danse 830-836
Sacrale”)
T Sept 30
&
Th Oct 2
The Viennese Revolution: Mahler;
NAWM 165: Mahler, Kindertotenlieder, No. 1: “Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n”
781-790
Schoenberg & Atonality
NAWM 172a: Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire, #8: “Nacht”
NAWM 173: Schoenberg, Piano Suite, Op. 25: Prelude; Minuet & Trio
812-824
T Oct 7
&
*Th Oct 9
The Viennese Revolution II: Berg & Webern
♬ NAWM 174: Berg, Wozzeck, Act III, sc. 2 & 3
NAWM 175: Webern, Symphony, Op.21, I
824-830
T Oct 14
&
Th Oct 16
Between the Wars: Neoclassicism, Parody &
the New Objectivity
NAWM177: Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, I
836-840
♬ Stravinsky, The Soldier’s Tale
857-880
NAWM 185: Milhaud, La création du monde, Op. 81, 1st tableau
♬ NAWM 186: Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper, Prelude, Die Mortitat von Mackie Messer 880-885
*T Oct 21
Between the Wars II: Classical & Folk
Traditions – Hungary
*OCT 23: DUE: ESSAY PROPOSAL & OUTLINE
(10%) OR 1ST REVIEW(15%)
NAWM 178: Bartók, Mikrokosmos, No. 123
NAWM 179: Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, III
*Oct 9: LISTENING QUIZ #1 (5%)
♬ Supplemental recordings available on Naxos Playlist: see course outline for connection instructions
(includes items not on previous edition CDs & supplemental works)
You will only be tested on Norton Anthology of Western Music (NAWM) recorded pieces.
840-847
Date
Topics, Tests & Dues Dates
Th Oct 23
Between the Wars III: Music & Politics in the
Soviet Union
*T Oct 28
Th Oct 30
Listening Assignments
Scores (NAWM 7th ed = Norton Anthology of Western Music)
Audio: Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, volume 3:
available online with text registration
NAWM 188: Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky, IV: “Arise, Ye Russian People”
NAWM 189: Shostakovich, Symphony No.5, II
Text Reading
(HWM, 9 ed)
885-889
***MIDTERM TEST (30%)***
The American Scene
NAWM 180: Ives, “General William Booth Enters into Heaven”
847-854
NAWM195: Copland, Appalachian Spring, excerpt: Variations on ‘Tis the Gift to Be
Simple
898-900
NAWM 203: Cage, Sonata and Interludes, Sonata V
NAWM 204: Cage, Music of Changes, Book I
939-945
T Nov 4
&
Th Nov 6
Cage & Indeterminacy
T Nov 11
Serialism
Th Nov 13
&
*T Nov 18
New Virtuosity, Sounds & Textures
Th Nov 20
Music Since 1970: Minimalism &
Postminimalism
NAWM 210: Reich, Tehillim, Part IV
NAWM 215: Pärt, Seven Magnificat Antiphons, Nos. 1 & 6
975-981
T Nov 25
Accessible Modernism & the 21st Century
NAWM 212: Ligeti, Etude No. 9: Vertige
♬ NAWM 218: Carter, Caténaires, for piano
981-98
993-1009
Th Nov 27
Music & Environment in Canada: Schafer,
Westerkamp & Soundscape
♬ Murray Schafer, Wolf Music (Tapio)
Hildegard Westerkamp, Talking Rain (Only on CD: on reserve, TR 3)
Learn links:
&
Nov 6: Film: “From Zero”
T Nov 18: LISTENING QUIZ #2
930-936
NAWM 201: Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time, I
NAWM 202: Boulez, Le marteau sans maître, 6th movement: “Bourreaux de solitude”
NAWM 205: Crumb, Black Angels, Images 4-5
946-953
♬ NAWM 206: Varèse, Poème électronique
NAWM 207: Babbitt, Philomel, Section I
NAWM 208: Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
986-988
Westerkamp
Leonardson
♬Supplemental recordings available on Naxos Playlist: see course outline for connection instructions
(includes items not on previous edition CDs & supplemental works)
You will only be tested on Norton Anthology of Western Music (NAWM) recorded pieces.

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