MHL 742 - WEST MEETS EAST – SYLLABUS

(S-09)

REVISED 4/1/09

Instructor: John Spitzer

Email: jspitzer@sfcm.edu

Class meets: Thursday 2-4, Room 507

Office Hours: Wednesday (by appointment), room 405

Website: www.sfcmhistory.com/Spitzer/west_meets_east_home.html

Jan 22 Introduction - Overview

29 “Turkish” music in the 18^th century

Entführung aus dem Serail

Feb 5 19^th-century orientalism

Le Désert, Sheherazade,

12 The orientalism debate

Orientalist painting

19 Latter-day orientalism

Mme Butterfly, Iris

ASST 1 DUE (Mme. Butterfly)

26 Escape from Europe

Debussy, Delage, McPhee

March 5 Modernism and the East

Stravinsky, Foulds, Partch

12 Synthesizing West and East

Harrison, Takemitsu, Ziporyn

19 Same

ASST 2 DUE (Modernism)

26 No class - Spring Break

April 2 Chinese composers

Xian Xinghai, Chou Wenchung, Bright Sheng, Chen Yi

9 Tradition and modernism

Guest: Ramon Santos

Ramon Santos, Jose Maceda

16 Study – Wallace/Tan: Bonesetters’ Daughter

Guest: Kip Cranna

23 Study –Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

30 Study – Tan Dun: Peony Pavilion

or Judith Weir: A Night at the Chinese Opera

ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE

May 7 Open