MUSIC HISTORY 204 – SYLLABUS

(Fall, 2011)

Instructor: John Spitzer

Email: john.spitzer@notes.sfcm.edu

Class meets: Tuesday-Thursday 10:30-11:20, Room 507

Office Hours: Tues-Thurs (by appointment), Room 405

Required text

Norton Anthology of Western Music, 6^th edition, ed. Burkholder & Palisca, (2009) – Volume 3 (“NAWM”)

Supplementary text

J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout & Claude V. Palisca: A History of Western Music, 8^th edition (2010) (“Grout”)

Useful websites

http://www.sfcmhistory.com

http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com

Aug 30- Modernism

Sept 1 NAWM 149 (vol 2) – Richard Strauss, Don Quixote

NAWM 156 – Claude Debussy, Nuages

SUPPL: C. Debussy, Syrinx

Grout: 743-748, 772-778, 790-794

6 Stravinsky to the Rite

NAWM 164 – Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (excerpts)

SUPPL: Stravinsky, Petrouchka (excerpts)

Grout: 829-835

Prep 1 due

8 Schoenberg and his friends

NAWM 160 – Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire (excerpts)

SUPPL: Schoenberg, String Quartet #2 (mvts 1, 4)

Grout: 811-829

13-15 12-tone music

NAWM 161 – Schoenberg, Piano Suite, Op. 25 (excerpts)

SUPPL: Alban Berg, Violin concerto, 1^st movement

Anton Webern, Cantata #1

Prep 2 due

20-22 Back to the future

NAWM 159 – Erick Satie, Embryons desséchés (3^rd mvt)

NAWM 165 – Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, 1^st mvt

NAWM 174 – Paul Hindemith, Mathis der Mahler (2^nd mvt)

SUPPL: Satie, Embryons desséchés (mvts 1-2)

Grout: 805-807, 835-839, 883-888

Repertory Quiz

27-29 Art/pop/folk

NAWM 167 – Bartok, Music for strings, perc. & celesta. (3^rd mvt)

NAWM 168 – Charles Ives, General William Booth enters into heaven

NAWM 173 – Darius Milhaud, La création du monde

SUPPL: - Bartok, Music for strings, percussion & celesta (2^nd mvt)

Grout: 839-846, 846-854, 880-883

Prep 3 due

Oct 4-6 Opera in the 20^th century

NAWM 162 – Alban Berg, Wozzeck, Act 3, scene 3

NAWM 185 – Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes, Act 3, scene 2

SUPPL: Leos Janacek, From the House of the Dead (act 2 excerpt)

Kurt Weill, Mahagonny (excerpt)

Grout: 799, 883-884, 926-928

Prep 4 due

11 Open

13 EXAM 1

18 NO CLASS – FALL BREAK

20 Back in the USSR

NAWM 175 – Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky (4^th mvt)

NAWM 176 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony #5 (2^nd mvt)

Grout:888-892

Prep 5 due

25-27 Latter day serialism

NAWM 180 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet, 4^th mvt

NAWM 184 – Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the end of time, 1^st mvt

NAWM 190 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kreuzspiel

SUPPL: – Igor Stravinsky, Agon (excerpts)

Grout: 838-839 (Stravinsky), 894-900, 922-926, 936-940

Prep 6 due

Nov 1-3 Experiment

NAWM 178 – Edgard Varèse, Hyperprism

NAWM 179 – Henry Cowell, The Banshee

NAWM 187 – John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes (Sonata 5)

NAWM 188 – John Cage, Music of Changes

NAWM 192 – Luciano Berio, Sequenza III (for soprano)

Grout: 895-897, 897-898, 930-936, 941-943

Prep 7 due

8-10 Electronic and computer music

SUPPL: Pierre Schaeffer; Studies of Noises

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kontakte

Charles Dodge, Speech Songs

John Oswald, Plunderphonics

Tom Flaherty, Quartet for viola, cello and digital electronics

Jen Wang – Interstate/Luminesce

Grout: 945-948, 963-967

Prep 8 due

15-17 Minimalism

NAWM 197 – Steve Reich Tehillim (part 4)

NAWM 198 – John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

NAWM 201 – Arvo Pärt, 2 antiphons

SUPPL: Steve Reich, Piano Phase (excerpt)

Grout: 956-979, 969-975

Prep 9 due – Reich: Gradual Process

22 Open

Repertory Quiz

25 THANKSGIVING BREAK

29- The ghost of music past

Dec 1 NAWM 199 – György Ligeti, Étude No. 9 (Vertige)

NAWM 203 – Alfred Schnittke, Concerto Grosso No 1 (2^nd mvt)

NAWM 204 – Michael Daugherty, Dead Elvis

SUPPL: George Rochberg, Ricordanza

Grout: 952-953, 976, 979-985, 981-982, 982-984

Prep 10 due

6 East-West music

NAWM 172 – Bright Sheng, Seven Tunes

SUPPL: Toru Takemitsu, November Steps

James Wood, Ho Shang Yao

Grout: 985-986

8 EXAM 2