WEST MEETS EAST (PROSEMINAR)
SYLLABUS
(F-10)
Instructor: John
Spitzer
Email: john.spitzer@notes.sfcm.edu
Class meets: Monday 9-11:20, Room 319 (507)
Office
Hours: Tues-Thurs
(by appointment), room 405
Website: www.sfcmhistory.com/Spitzer/ west_meets_east.html
Aug 30 Plenary session finding information
9-9:50 (Room 507)
Introduction
Overview
Sept 6 NO
CLASS Labor Day
Sept 13 Plenary session finding music 9-9:50
(Room 507)
Oriental tokens - The
Middle East
Mozart, F. David, Saint-Saens, Dιlibes, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel
Sept 20 Oriental
tokens - The Far East
Weber, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, E. Poldini, Stravinsky, Puccini
Sept 27 The
orientalism debate
ASST DUE: Bibliography
Individual tutorials outside class
Oct 4 Case study: Mme Butterfly
Oct 11 Escape
from
Listen: Debussy, Delage, McPhee, Britten
ASST DUE: Paper topic
Oct 18 No class - Fall Break
Oct 25 Modernism and the East
Listen: Stravinsky, Foulds,
Partch, Cage
ASST DUE: Take-home exam
Nov 1 Synthesizing West and East
Listen: Harrison, Hovhaness,
Tcherepnin, Wood
Read: Miller and Lieberman, Nichols?
Nov 8 Eastern-born
composers
Listen: Takemitsu, Jianer Zhu, Zhou Long, Yun Isang
Nov 15 Postmodernism and the East
Listen: Weir, Ziporyn
ASST DUE: Term paper draft
Nov 22 Tutorials
by appointment
Nov 29 Tutorials by appointment
ASST DUE: Abstract
Dec 6 Presentations
Dec 13 Presentations
ASST DUE: Term
paper