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 Europe

                              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