MUSI307 Course Syllabus

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC" TEXT="#080000" background="13cfd5a3.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Aaron Alon"><U><B><IMG SRC="3a27d140.png" border=0 width="125" height="20" ALT="Homepage" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id105.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U><B>Links</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="13dd2b03.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="668153d0.png" border=0 width="21" height="61" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="138" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#000000 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 55 WIDTH="126"><div> <B>Download the Course Syllabus:</B></div> <div>  <a href="HTMLobj-1646/Syllabus.doc"><img align="bottom" border="0" width="19" height="18" alt=".doc" src="HTMLobj-1646/Word-small.gif"></a>   <a href="HTMLobj-1647/Syllabus-_revised.pdf"><img align="bottom" border="0" width="15" height="15" alt="pdf" src="HTMLobj-1647/pdf-small-2.GIF"></a>  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>MUSI307 Course Syllabus</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Composition for Non-Majors (MUSI 307)</B></div> <div> Rice University, Shepherd School of Music</div> <div> Fall, 2006</div> <div> Aaron Alon</div> <bR> <div> Class Times: MWF 11-11:50AM</div> <div> Location: APBH 1403</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Course Aims</B></div> <div> This course is intended as an introduction to composition in a contemporary idiom for non-music majors.  We will address both the art and the craft of composition, learning how to notate music and how to use various properties of music (rhythm, contour, dynamics, etc.) in order to create new musical works and attempt to elicit certain affective responses in the listener.  Because this course is concerned with contemporary (20<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> and 21<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >st</FONT> century) musical vocabularies, we will also learn about these styles, through reading and listening assignments, as well as through compositional exercises.  </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Course Information</B></div> <div> <B>Course Website</B></div> <div> This syllabus, all assignments, and links to all readings and listening are available through OwlSpace.  Visit https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu/portal.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Reading/Listening</B></div> <div> Please prepare reading and listening assignments for the dates on which they are listed (i.e., <I>before</I> that class).  Be prepared to discuss the pieces and articles in class.  The readings and recordings should all be available online.  In case not, call numbers for the readings and recordings are listed near the end of this syllabus.  Those with good score-reading skills are invited to follow along in the scores, which are all on reserve.  Items on electronic reserve will require an access code, which will be given to you in class once it is available.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Class Participation</B></div> <div> Composition is traditionally taught as an apprenticeship.  Therefore, active participation in the classroom discussion is essential and will be considered a part of your final grade.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Attendance</B></div> <div> Classroom attendance is expected at all classes.  If you need to miss a class, please e-mail me as a courtesy.  Excessive absences will affect your grade.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Graded Material</B></div> <div> This class has <U>no exams</U> and <U>no formal papers</U>.  You will be asked to write short compositions, short response papers (about 1 page), and a final, longer composition (up to 5 minutes long).  I will try to arrange to have your final compositions performed and possibly recorded.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Extra Credit</B></div> <div> Extra credit can be earned by attending contemporary music concerts that will be announced during the course of the semester.  Write a short (1 page) discussion of the concert relating to contemporary composition (E.g.: “At this point, the composer, himself, fell asleep in his seat.”).</div> <bR> <div> <B>Notation Software</B></div> <div> All assignments can be written by hand.  If you choose to use notation software, there are a number of good options available, the best being Finale and Sibelius; Finale is preferred for this class.  If you choose to buy either program, be sure to purchase the Academic version.   </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>COURSE OUTLINE</B></div> <div> This outline is subject to change.  All dates are tentative.</div> <bR> <div> <B>INTRODUCTION</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 1.  </B>(Aug. 28, 30, Sept. 1). Introduction.  Overview of 20<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> century music history: historicism, romanticism, and novelty.  Basic notation.  </div> <bR> <div> Reading (Sept. 1): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Aaron Copland: “How We Listen”</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Nadia Boulanger: “From Two Interviews”</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Steven Stucky: “New Music and the Masterpiece Syndrome”</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>RHYTHM & METER</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 2.  </B>(Sept. 6, 8).  <I>No class on Sept. 4</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>th</I></FONT>.  Rhythm and Meter.</div> <bR> <div> Listening (Sept. 6): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Varèse: <I>Ionisation     </I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bartók: “Syncopation” from <I>Mikrokosmos, </I>No. 133, Vol. V     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bernstein: “America” from <I>West Side Story     </I></div> <bR> <div> Reading (Sept. 6):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Béla Bartók: “The Problem of the New Music”</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B>Week 3.  </B>(Sept. 11).  <I>No class on Sept. 13</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>th</I></FONT><I> or 15</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>th</I></FONT>.  Rhythm and Meter (continued).  Defying expectation.  Polyrhythms.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Assignment (Due Sept. 11): Rhythm</B></div> <bR> <div> Listening (Sept. 11):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Stravinsky: <I>Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring),</I> excerpts TBA     </div> <bR> <div> Reading (Sept. 11):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Leonard B. Meyer: <I>Emotion and Meaning in Music: </I>Pp. TBA.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 4.  </B>(Sept. 18, 20, 22).  Rhythm and Meter (continued).  Watch “Petrouchka” ballet on video (in class).  Discuss compositions.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Composition #1 (Due Sept. 18): Rhythm and meter</B></div> <bR> <div>      Listening (Sept. 18):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Antheil: Ballet mécanique     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Nancarrow: Player Piano Study No. 21 (“Canon X”)     </div> <bR> <div> Reading (Sept. 18):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Milton Babbit: “Who Cares if You Listen?"</div> <bR> <div> <U>Optional</U> Reading: </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cohn, Richard.  “Introduction to Meter and Metric Dissonance.” </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PITCH</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 5.  </B>(Sept. 25, 27, 29).  Melody, harmony, & counterpoint.  Pitch (melody/harmony) and affect.  The overtone series.  Consonant vs. Dissonant.  “Tonal” vs. “Atonal.”  Major vs. Minor.  Diatonic vs. Chromatic.</div> <bR> <div> Listening (Sept. 25): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chopin: Prelude  in E Minor, Opus 28, No. 4     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Gershwin: “My Man's Gone Now” from <I>Porgy and Bess</I>     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mozart: Queen of the Night aria (“Der Holle Rache Kocht</div> <div> In Meinen Herzen”) from <I>Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), </I>Nr. 14     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima     </div> <bR> <div> Reading (Sept. 25):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Charles Rosen: “Atonality”</div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 6.  </B>(Oct. 2, 4, 6).  Tonal ambiguity.  Modes and scales.  Church modes.  Symmetrical divisions of the octave.  Microtonal music.</div> <bR> <div> Listening (Oct. 2): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, “Prelude”<I>     </I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Schönberg: Erwartung<I>     </I></div> <div> (Note: Please read the text first and then follow along with it through the music.)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ives: Three Quarter-tone Pieces for 2 Pianos: No. 3     </div> <bR> <div> Reading (Oct. 2):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Igor Stravinsky: “The Composition of Music”</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marie Pappenheim: <I>Erwartung</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assignment (Due Oct. 6): Melodies</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 7.  </B>(Oct. 9, 11, 13).  Impressionism.  Pentatonicism and Octatonicism.  Polytonality.  Serialism.  Twelve-tone (dodecaphonic) music.</div> <bR> <div> Listening (Oct. 9): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Debussy: Prélude à “L'Après-midi d'un faune”     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Salzedo: Scintillation     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bartók: “From the Island of Bali” from <I>Mikrokosmos, </I>No. 109     </div> <bR> <div>      Reading (Oct. 9)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Stéphane Mallarmé: “The Afternoon of a Faun”</div> <bR> <div> Listening (Oct. 13):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Webern: “Wie bin ich froh!,” No. 1 of <I>Drei Lieder, </I>Op. 25     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Schönberg: “Survivor from Warsaw”     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Berg: Violin Concerto, Movement I     </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>DYNAMICS & TONE COLOR</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 8.  </B>(Oct. 18, 20).  <I>No class on Oct. 16</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>th</I></FONT>.  Dynamics.  Total (integral) serialism.  Articulation.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Composition (Due Oct. 18): 12-Tone Composition</B></div> <bR> <div> Listening (Oct. 18): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Stockhausen: Klavierstücke No. 2     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Other listening TBA</div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 9.  </B>(Oct. 23, 25, 27).  Tone Color (timbre).  Extended technique.  </div> <bR> <div> Listening (Oct. 23): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cowell: The Banshee          </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Crumb: Black Angels, excerpts     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cage: Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano, excerpts     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Varèse: Poème Electronique     </div> <bR> <div> Reading (Oct. 23): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Henry Cowell: “Excerpts from <I>New Musical Resources</I>”</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Edgard Varèse: “The Liberation of Sound”</div> <bR> <div> <B>Assignment (Due Oct. 27): Extended Technique</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>CONNECTIVITY</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 10.  </B>(Oct. 30, Nov. 1, 3).  Precompositional planning.  Motives and themes.  Motivic unity and saturation.  Frugality.  Texts and Programs.  Basic forms.</div> <bR> <div> Listening (Oct. 30): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Mvmt. I     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Schubert: “Erlkönig”     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Mvmt. V  </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ives: Three Songs of the War, "In Flanders Fields"       </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>REPETITION & VARIATION</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 11.</B>  (Nov. 6, 8, 10).  Repetition as a compositional tool.  Phasing.  Minimalism.   Discuss composition assignments.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Composition (Due Nov. 6): Motivic unity/frugality</B></div> <bR> <div> Listening (Nov. 6): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Purcell: “When I Am Laid in Earth” from <I>Dido and Aeneas          </I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Britten: “Dirge” from <I>Serenade for Tenor, Horn, & Strings     </I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bach: Two-part invention No. 4 in D-minor, BWV 775     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ravel: Boléro     </div> <bR> <div> Listening (Nov. 8)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reich: Clapping Music     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ligeti: Études pour piano, Book 1, Étude 1, “Désordre”          </div> <div> (Take a look at the score, but good luck following it! - M25 .L55 E881 1986)</div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 12.  </B>(Nov. 13, 15, 17).  Arranging and Orchestration.  <U>Reminder:</U> Start work on your final project!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Assignment (Due Nov. 13): Arranging/Repetition & Variation </B>(About 1 page)</div> <bR> <div> Listening (Nov. 13):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cole Porter, “You're the Top,” arr. Buddy Bregman<I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Harold Arlen, “Out of This World,” arr. Billy May     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chopin: Prelude in E Minor, Opus 28, No. 4     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bug Music: “Charlie's Prelude”     </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>NEW APPROACHES</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 13.  </B>(Nov. 20, 22).  <I>No class on Nov. 24</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>th</I></FONT>.  Indeterminacy.  Aleatory.  In-class performance of John Cage's 4'33”.  </div> <bR> <div> Listening (Nov. 20): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cage: Music of Changes     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Xenakis: ST/4     </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Boulez: Structures II          </div> <bR> <div> Reading (Due Nov. 20): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kurt Stone: “Indeterminate Events”</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Iannis Xenakis: “Free Stochastic Music”</div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>Week 14.  </B>(Nov. 27, 29, Dec. 1).  Contemporary notation.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Assignment (Due Nov. 27): Turn in a draft (or a partial draft) of your final piece.</B></div> <bR> <div> Listening (Nov. 27):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima</div> <bR> <div> Reading (Due Nov. 29): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Aaron Alon: <I>Contemporary Notation </I>(Available on Owl-Space Resources)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kurt Stone: <I>Music Notation in the Twentieth Century: A Practical Guidebook (excerpts)</I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pierre Boulez: “Tendencies in Recent Music”</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE FUTURE</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Week 15.  </B>(Dec. 4, 6, 8).  Composition today.  The future of composition.  Go over final compositions.  Possible in-class performance.</div> <bR> <div> Listening (Dec. 4): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reich: Different Trains, Movement I</div> <bR> <div> Reading (Dec. 4): </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Samuel Adler: <I>The Study of Orchestration: </I>P. ix.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Charles Rosen: “Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde?”</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Carl Topilow: “An Important Branch of Modern Music.” </div> <bR> <div> <B>Composition (Dec. 4): Final compositions due today!</B></div> <div> If your piece is for more than one instrument, parts are due today as well.  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>