MUSIC HISTORY 204 – SYLLABUS
(Fall, 2010)
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, 6th edition, ed. Burkholder
& Palisca, (2009) – Volume 3 (“NAWM”)
Supplementary text
J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout
& Claude V. Palisca: A History of
Western Music, 8th edition (2010) (“Grout”)
Useful websites
http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com
Aug 31 Modernism
NAWM 156 – Claude Debussy, Nuages
NAWM 158 –
Alexander Scriabin, Vers la flamme
PLUS C. Debussy, Syrinx
Grout: 743-748,
772-778, 790-794, 802-805
Sept 2
Same
7 Stravinsky
to the Rite
NAWM 164 – Igor
Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (excerpts)
PLUS Stravinsky, Petrouchka (excerpts)
Grout: 829-835
9 Schoenberg
and his friends
NAWM
160 – Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire (excerpts)
PLUS Schoenberg, String Quartet #2 (mvts 1, 4)
Grout: 811-829
14 12-tone
music
NAWM 161 – Schoenberg,
Piano Suite, Op. 25 (excerpts)
PLUS – Alban Berg,
Violin concerto, 1st movement
Anton Webern, Cantata #1
16 Same
21 Back
to the future
NAWM 159 – Erick Satie,
Embryons desséchés (3rd mvt)
NAWM 165 – Igor
Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, 1st mvt
NAWM 174 – Paul
Hindemith, Mathis der Mahler (2nd mvt)
PLUS – Satie, Embryons
desséchés (mvts 1-2)
Grout: 805-807,
835-839, 883-888
Repertory Quiz
23 Same
28 Art/pop/folk
NAWM 167 – Bartok,
Music for strings, perc. & celesta. (3rd mvt)
NAWM 168 – Charles
Ives, General William Booth enters into heaven
NAWM 173 – Darius
Milhaud, La création du monde
PLUS - Bartok, Music for strings, percussion &
celesta (2nd mvt)
Grout: 839-846,
846-854, 880-883
Prep
3 due
30 Same
Oct 5 Opera in the 20th century
NAWM 162 – Alban Berg,
Wozzeck, Act 3, scene 3
NAWM 185 – Benjamin
Britten, Peter Grimes, Act 3, scene 2
PLUS – Leos Janacek,
From the House of the Dead (act 2 excerpt)
Kurt
Weill, Mahagonny (excerpt)
Grout: 799, 883-884, 926-928
Prep
4 due
7 Same
12 Open
14 EXAM
1
19 NO
CLASS – FALL BREAK
21 Back
in the USSR
NAWM 175 – Sergei
Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky (4th mvt)
NAWM 176 – Dmitri
Shostakovich, Symphony #5 (2nd mvt)
Grout:888-892
Prep 5 due
26 Latter
day serialism
NAWM 180 – Ruth
Crawford Seeger, String Quartet, 4th mvt
NAWM 184 – Olivier
Messiaen, Quartet for the end of time, 1st mvt
NAWM 190 – Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Kreuzspiel
PLUS – Igor Stravinsky,
Agon (excerpts)
Grout: 838-839 (Stravinsky), 894-900, 922-926,
936-940
Prep 6 due
28 Same
Nov 2 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
4 Same
9 Electronic
and computer music
PLUS 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
11 Same
16 Minimalism
NAWM 197 – Steve Reich
Tehillim (part 4)
NAWM 198 – John Adams,
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
NAWM 170 – Arvo Pärt, 2
antiphons
PLUS – Steve Reich,
Piano Phase)
Grout: 956-979, 969-975
Prep 9 due
18 Same
23 Open
Repertory Quiz
25 THANKSGIVING
BREAK
30 The
ghost of music past
NAWM 199 – György
Ligeti, Étude No. 9 (Vertige)
NAWM 203 – Alfred
Schnittke, Concerto Grosso No 1 (2nd mvt)
NAWM 204 – Michael
Daugherty, Dead Elvis
PLUS – George Rochberg
– Ricordanza
Grout: 952-953, 976, 979-985, 981-982, 982-984
Prep 10 due
Dec 2 Same
7 East-West
music
NAWM 172 – Bright
Sheng, Seven Tunes
PLUS – Toru Takemitsu,
November Steps
James Wood, Ho
Shang Yao
Grout: 985-986
9 EXAM
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