Stravinsky to the present

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

21M.301 Harmony and Counterpoint I or permission of instructor.

These books are required:

A supplemental materials website for this book contains many links to online resources, additional references, and downloadable study guides.

Additionally, the class uses Grove® Music Online [a subscription-based service not provided for OCW users] as an additional biographical reference about composers.

This course satisfies the Music degree Communication Intensive in the Minor (CI-M) requirement. It requires 5000 words of formal writing, incorporating oral presentation, revision, abstract-writing, and citation practice. Short informal presentations will also be assigned throughout the term.

Details are provided on the Papers page.

Students are encouraged to listen to assigned music together, and to attend performances together, but must write their own independent answers to worksheet questions and reports.

Essays must cite any sources (including websites) that were used in researching a topic. I am happy to help you find appropriate scholarly resources. Please note that the Grove music encyclopedia is much more reliable than Wikipedia.

Attendance is counted every class and is part of your grade. Arriving more than five minutes late will cause you to miss your warm-up points for the day.

Only under exceptional circumstances will daily homework assignments be accepted late. Late essays will incur a penalty of 5% per day. In assessing lateness, the "end of the day" is defined as 5pm.

The use of computers and tablets is allowed for classwork only; smartphones are forbidden. You should bring your textbook and score anthology to every class meeting.

Note that there are no formal exams. The five short listening identification quizzes on works in the Anthology will take less than 15 minutes and will happen at the beginning of class. Lateness or absence on these days is not advisable.

Gustav Mahler

Richard Strauss

Claude Debussy

Alexander Scriabin

Arnold Schoenberg

Alban Berg

Charles Ives

Jean Sibelius

Kurt Weill

Paul Hindemith

Igor Stravinsky

Erik Satie

Sergei Prokofiev

Maurice Ravel

George Gershwin

Darius Milhaud

Arnold Schoenberg

Anton Webern

Alban Berg

Aaron Copland

Ralph Vaughan Williams

William Grant Still

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Colin McPhee

Leoš Janáček

Benjamin Britten

Richard Strauss

Dmitri Shostakovich

Sergei Prokofiev

Pierre Boulez

Olivier Messiaen

Milton Babbitt

Pauline Oliveros

John Cage

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Yoko Ono

Mario Davidovsky

Kaija Saariaho

Luigi Russolo

George Antheil

Edgard Varèse

Karlheinz Stockhausen

György Ligeti

Conlon Nancarrow

Gérard Grisey

Tristan Murail

Elliott Carter

Helmut Lachenmann

Brian Ferneyhough

George Crumb

Luciano Berio

Chen Yi

Toru Takemitsu

Minimalism and its Aftermath

Guest speaker: Evan Ziporyn

Steve Reich

Terry Riley

John Adams

Philip Glass

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