MHL 603 – TOPICS IN MUSIC HISTORY: 20^TH AND 21^ST CENTURIES

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Topic 1 – Igor Stravinsky, Life and works

Sept 10 “Russian” period

Sept 17 “Neo-classicism”

Sept 24 Later years

Topic 2 – The Rise and fall of 12-tone music

Oct 1 Classical procedures

Oct 8 Serialism

Oct 15 Free treatment

Topic 3 – Experimental Music

Oct 22 What is experimental music?

Oct 29 Instrumental techniques and technologies

Nov 5 Chance and improvisation

Topic 4 – 20^th-century opera

Nov 12 19th-century dramaturgy

Nov 19 Words and music

Nov 26 Epic theater

Topic 5 – Art/Pop/Folk

Dec 3 Creating national music

Dec 10 Folk & pop as the route to modernism