3706a Topics in Music of the Late Twentieth Century - University of ...

Tim Page, “Critics Notebook: The New Romance with Tonality,” New York Times, 29 May1983.Mon Nov 5: Postmodernism is born: Creating a musical collagePresentation: Jacob Druckman, Prism - “After Luigi Cherubini” (1980) (MCD404,M1045.D759P7 1987)Reading: Elliott Schwartz and Daniel Godfrey, Music since 1945: Issues, Materials, andLiterature (Toronto: Maxwell Maxmillan Canada, 1993): 242-262.Watch DVD of Maurice Kagel, Ludwig Van (1970) (instructor’s copy on reserve)Wed Nov 7: Minimalism: Modernism, Postmodernism or Populism?PROPOSAL FOR FINAL PAPER DUE IN CLASSPresentation: Glass, Music in Twelve Parts (1971-4) (MCD22106, no score)Reading: Steve Reich, “Music as Gradual Process,” in Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs(eds.), Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music (New York: Da Capo Press,1998): 421-4.Mon Nov 12: PostminimalismPresentation: Steve Reich, Different Trains – 1 st movement (1988) (MCD4499,M452.R443D5 1998)Reading: Jonathan W. Bernard, “Minimalism, Postminimalism, and the Resurgence ofTonality in Recent American Music,” American Music 21/1 (Spring, 2003), 112-133.Wed Nov 14: Rejecting the confines of the concert hallPresentation: R. Murray Schafer, The Princess of the Stars—“Princess’ Aria” (1981)(MCD11079b, M1505.S385P3 1986)Reading: Kate Galloway, “Pathways and Pilgrimages: The In-Between Spaces in the‘Patria’ Cycle,” Intersections 28/1 (2007): 139-150.Mon Nov 19: The new complexityPresentation: Brian Ferneyhough, String Quartet no. 4 (1989-90) (Search on youtube for“Ferneyhough String Quartet 4 (1989-90)”—the first four results are the fourmovements, with score)Reading: Brian Ferneyhough, “Form, Figure, Style: an Intermediate Assessment,” in BrianFerneyhough: Collected Writings, ed. James Boros and Richard Toop (Amsterdam:Overseas Publishers Association, 1995).Wed Nov 21: Debate with graduate composition students: The Impact of Modernism ontoday’s practitioners2 students to organize.Mon Nov 26: Modernist ideals and new music ensemblesGuest presenter: Western PhD Candidate, John PippenReading: Georgina Born, Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalizationof the Musical Avant-Garde (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995): 40-65.Watch youtube video of Alarm Will Sound peforming “Revolution 9”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjfQSxcq0c6