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ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
Department of Music
Fall 2015
MUHL 519 STUDIES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC
Course Calendar
Aug 27 Syllabus. Introduction to the Twentieth Century. Project 1 assigned.
Sep 3 GERMAN LATE ROMANTICISM
RA: Morgan 1-40. Strunk/Morgan 51-58.
PROJECT 1 DUE: Guided Reading Assignment
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn: “Der Schildwache Nachtlied”
Das Lied von der Erde, #3 “Von der Jugend”
Kindertotenlieder, #5: “In diesem Wetter” Symphony No. 2 #4: “Urlicht”
Sep 10 IMPRESSIONISM & SYMBOLISM
RA:Morgan 40-50.
Forum: Strunk/Morgan 161-166.
PROJECT 2 DUE: MAHLER
Debussy Ariettes oubliées: “C’est l’extase”
Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”
Préludes, Book I: “Voiles”
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
EXOTICISM & SYNESTHETICS
Debussy Estampes: “Pagodes,” “La soirée dans Grenade”
Ravel Chansons madécasses: “Aoua, aoua”
Skriabin Prometheus
3 Piano Pieces op. 35 #3
Sep 17 EXPRESSIONISM: ATONALITY
Forum: S/M 13-19; Arnold Schoenberg, “National Music,” in Arnold
Schoenberg, Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, 172-174;
Schoenberg, “Brahms the Progressive,” in Style and Idea, 398-441, 532.
Ethan Haimo, “Schoenberg and the Origins of Atonality,” in Julian Brand and
Christoph Hailey, eds., Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the
Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture, p. 71-86. Morgan 62-88.
Ravel La Valse
Schoenberg Erwartung
Three Piano Pieces op. 11 #2
Five Orchestral Pieces op. 16 #1,3,5
Pierrot lunaire op. 21, # 1,7,8
Webern Songs op. 3#1
Bagatelles op. 9 #4, 5
Berg Wozzeck, Act III, Sc 2
Altenberg Lieder op. 4 #2, 5
Sep 24 PRIMITIVISM & FUTURISM
RA: Morgan 89-103; 114-117.
Forum: Strunk/Morgan 161-166; S/M 58-64; 69-76. Henry Cowell, “From ‘New
Musical Resources,’” in Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs, Contemporary
Composers on Contemporary Music, 134-45.
Stravinsky Firebird
The Rite of Spring
Petruchka #1
Les Noces # 1 Russolo The Awakening of a City
Antheil Ballet mécanique
Honegger Pacific 231
Varèse Hyperprism
Ionisation
Milhaud Machines agricoles; Choëphores
Cowell 2 piano pieces: “Banshee”, “The Tides of Manaunaun”
Oct 1 NEW SIMPLICITIES: LES SIX
RA: Morgan 50-54; 159-167.
Forum: S/M 20-24; 172-174; 215-217. Erik Satie, “Mémoires d’un amnésiaque,
and other writings, » in Piero Weiss an Richard Taruskin, Music in the
Western World: A History in Documents, 467-70.
Alan M. Gillmor, “Erik Satie and the Concept of the Avant-Garde,” Musical
Quarterly 69 (Winter 1983):104-19.
Poulenc Banalités: “Hôtel”
Milhaud Le boeuf sur le toit
Satie Parade
Embryons desséchés; Sports et divertissements
NEW SIMPLICITIES: GERMANY & USA
RA: Morgan 220-235; 258-260; 262-263.
Forum: S/M 123-125.
Krenek Johnny spielt auf
Weill Threepenny Opera
Gerswhin Rhapsody in Blue
Hindemith Kammermusik (mvt. 4)
Oct 8 NEO-CLASSICISM
RA: Morgan 168-186; 272-278.
Forum: S/M 24-30.
Scott Messing, “Polemic as History: The Case of Neoclassicism, The Journal of
Musicology 9 (Fall 1991):481-97.
Ravel Sonatina
Debussy Images I: “Hommage à Rameau”
Stravinsky Pulcinella
Concerto for Piano and Winds, #1
Histoire du soldat OR Symphony of Psalms Prokofief Classical Symphony
Hindemith Ludus tonalis
Mathis der Maler
SERIALISM (12-TONE MUSIC)
RA: Morgan 187-219; 260-262
Forum: S/M 85-96; 191-193.
J. Peter Burkholder, “Schoenberg the Reactionary,” in Walter Frisch, ed.,
Schoenberg and His World, 162-91.
J. Peter Burkholder, “Berg and the Possibility of Popularity,” in David Gable and
Robert P. Morgan, eds., Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives, 25-
53. On Reserve at MMC: folder.
Schoenberg Suite for Piano op. 25
Variations for Orchestra op. 31
Piano Piece op. 33a
Berg Lyric Suite, #1
Violin Concerto, # 3
Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra op. 6 #1
Symphony op. 21
String Quartet op. 28 #2
Oct 15 MIDTERM
Oct 22 NATIONALISM I: EUROPE
RA: Morgan 54-61; 103-113; 117-137; 235-250; 266-269.
Forum: S/M 166-172; S/M 125-131.
Bartok Bluebeard’s Castle (opening segment)
Allegro barbaro
Concerto for Orchestra, #5
Piano Concerto, # 1
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, # 1
Mikrokosmos VI: “6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythms”, # 6 Out of Doors (Piano Suite)
Janacek Sinfonietta
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
Vaughan-Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Britten Peter Grimes
Holst The Hymn of Jesus (Stolba, 269)
Oct 29 NATIONALISM II: THE AMERICAS
RA: Morgan 137-148; 283-295; 315-322.
Forum: S/M 64-69.
J. Peter Burkholder, “Ives and the Nineteenth-Century European Tradition,” in
Geoffrey Block, and Peter J. Burkholder, eds., Charles Ives and the Classical
Tradition, 11-33;
SM 151-157 (Still, Wilson); Virgil Thomson, “French Music Here,” in
Weiss/Taruskin, Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, 475-76.
Ives Concord Sonata, #3: “The Alcotts”
Three Places in New England
General William Booth’s Entry into Heaven
Symphony No. 4 #1, 2
Copland Lincoln Portrait
Harris Symphony No. 3 & 8
Thomson The Plow that Broke the Plains
Seeger Violin Sonata: Buoyant # 2
Still Afro-American Symphony
Chavez Sinfonia India, # 1
Villa Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras, # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
Ginastera Danzas argentinas
Nov 5 RITUALS, LITURGIES, VOICES OF WAR
PROJECT 3 DUE: SHOSTAKOVICH
Forum: Mervyn Cooke, “Owen, Britten and Pacifism,” in Mervin Cooke, Britten:
War Requiem, 1-19.
Stravinsky In memoriam Dylan Thomas
Messiaën Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Les corps glorieux: “L’ange aux parfums”
Schoenberg Survivor from Warsaw
Britten War Requiem, #1
Penderecki Dies irae (Auschwitz Oratorio)
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Crumb Black Angels
Adams Doctor Atomic
AVANT-GARDE: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC & INDETERMINACY
RA: Morgan 295-314; 359-381.
Forum: S/M 30-35; 176-178; 229-234
Cage 4'33"
TV Köln & Fontana Mix
Sonata and Interlude for Prepared Piano, #2 (DVD)
Chess Pieces
Stockhausen Zyklus
Berio Sequenza for Clarinet
Boulez Third Sonata for Piano
Nov 12 INTEGRAL SERIALISM & ELECTRONIC MUSIC
RA: Morgan 333-358; 461-480.
Forum: S/M 76-82; 96-100.
Babbitt 3 Compositions for Piano
Stockhausen Kreuzspiele & Klavierstück VIII
Messiaën Modes de valeurs et d’intensités: Quatre études de rythme
Boulez Structures I:1
Le marteau sans maître: “L’artisanat furieux”
Varèse Poème électronique
Stockhausen Der Gesang der Jünglinge
Telemusik (score)
Stockhausen Kontakte
Nov 19 MINIMALISM
RA: Morgan 423-433.
Forum: S/M 115-120.
Timothy A. Johnson, “Minimalism: Aesthetic, Style, or Technique?,” Musical
Quarterly 78 (Winter 1994):742-73.
Adams Fearful Symmetries
Riley In C
Reich Piano Phase
Desert Music
Pieces of Wood
Gorecki Symphony No. 3 #1
NEW SOUNDS: TEXTURAL & STOCHASTIC MUSIC
RA: Morgan 381-406.
Forum: S/M 101-114.
Ligeti 3 Fantasies, #2
Atmosphères
Carter A Mirror on Which to Dwell: “Argument”
Xenakis Metastasis
Nov 26 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 3 NEW VIRTUOSITY
PROJECT 4 DUE
RA: Morgan, 390-391; 441-445.
Berio Omaggio à Joyce
Sinfonia for 8 Voices and Orchestra (score)
Crumb Ancient Voices of Children
Night of the Four Moons, #1
Babbitt Phonemena
Mobberly Caution to the Wind
Varese Density for Flute
Berio Sinfonia
Ligeti Aventures
MUSICAL PLURALISM: USES OF THE PAST AND GENERIC REVIVALS;
CROSS-OVER ARTISTS AND RECENT COMPOSERS
RA: Morgan, 407-422; 434-440; 445-460; 481-489.
Forum: S/M 41-48; 224-228; 234-238; 239-244.
Glass Einstein on the Beach
Stravinsky Monumentum pro Gesualdo
Tippett Symphony No. 3
Rochberg Third String Quartet
Zwillich Concerto grosso 1985, # 1
Schnittke Concerto grosso No. 3
Takemitsu Rain Tree
Arvo Pärt De profundis
Berlin Mass
Tavener Hymns of Paradise
Lowell Liebermann Sonata op. 1 no. 1
Schuller 7 Themes on Paul Klee: No. 3 “Kleiner blauer Teufel,”
No. 5 “ Arabische Stadt” Diverse Artists
Film Music
Dec 10 Final Examination: Thursday, 1:30–3:30 p.m.