Watkins. Ch 5: Debussy: Impressionism and Symbolism
Additional Readings (links may not be current or may require login to work)
Basics of Post-Tonal Analysis
Joseph Straus. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory (Prentice-Hall, 1990). Chapter 1, Analysis 1 & 2.
Music and the Postmodern
Jonathan D. Kramer. Postmodern Concepts of Musical Time Indiana Theory Review 17/2 (1996): 21-62.
Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner, eds. Postmodern Music / Postmodern Thought. Routledge, 2002.
Debussy
Watkins. Ch 5: Debussy: Impressionism and Symbolism
Jan Pasler. "Debussy, Jeux: Playing with Time and Form," 19th Century Music, vi.1 (1982), 60-75.
Lawrence Berman. "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Jeux: Debussy's Summer Rites," 19th Century Music, iii.3 (1980), 225-38.
James Hepokoski. "Formulaic Openings in Debussy," 19th Century Music, viii.1 (1984), 44-59.
Allan Forte, "Debussy and the Octatonic," Music Analysis, 10.1-2 (1991), 125-69.
Avo Somer. Musical Syntax in the Sonatas of Debussy. Music Theory Spectrum 27/1 (2005), 67-96.
Messiaen and Takemitsu
Anthony Pople. Quatuor pour la fin du temps: Cambridge Musical Handbook (1998)
Introduction, Ch 1 (Liturgie), Ch 3 (Abme)
Malcom Troup in The Messiaen Companion, p. 392-447
See especially parts on Chronochromie, Sept haka, and Coleurs de la Cit celeste
Jonathan Cross. The Stravinsky Legacy. (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Chapter on Block Forms, especially p. 46-63 (Turangalla, Momente)
Tim Koozin. Spiritual-Temporal Imagery in Music of Olivier Messiaen and Toru Takemitsu. Contemporary Music Review 7/2 (1993).
________. Toru Takemitsu and the Unity of Opposites. College Music Symposium 30 (1990).
________. Traversing Distances: Pitch Organization, Gesture, and Imagery in the Late Works of Toru Takemitsu. Contemporary Music Review 21/4 (2003).
Stravinsky and his influence on recent music
Jonathan Cross. The Stravinsky Legacy. (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Joseph Straus. Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition. (Harvard University Press, 1990.)
________. Stravinsky's Construction of Twelve Verticals: An Aspect of Harmony in the Serial Music, Music Theory Spectrum 21/1 (1999).
Edward T. Cone, "Stravinsky: The Progress of a Method," Perspectives of New Music 1/1 (Fall 1962): 18-26.
Studies in popular music and jazz
I. Gender and Meaning
1. Kruse, Holly. 1999. Gender in Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Edited by Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss. Blackwell, pp 85-95. eReserve
2. Burns, Lori and M. Lafrance. 2002. Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity, and Popular Music. Routledge Press. eReserve
3. Frith, Simon. 1996. Performing Rites. Oxford University Press. Chapter 9, pp. 183-202. eReserve
4. Middleton, Richard. 2001. Pop, Rock, and Improvisation. Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 9, pp. 213-25. eReserve
5. Dibben, Nicola. 1999. Representations of Femininity in Popular Music. Popular Music 18: 331-355. eReserve
6. Clarke, Eric. 2005. Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Making. Oxford University Press, Chapter 5 excerpts. eReserve
7. Allan F. Moore. 2005. The Persona-Environment Relation in Recorded Song. Music Theory Online, Volume 11/4. http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.05.11.4/toc.11.4.html
8. Timothy Koozin. 2007. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: Voice Leading, Tonal Structure, and the Theme of Self-Realization in the Music of Sarah McLachlan in Expression in Pop-Rock Music: A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays, ed. Walter Everett. Garland, 2nd ed. eReserve
II. Harmony and Form in Rock
1. Everett, Walter. Making Sense of Rock's Tonal Systems. Music Theory Online, Volume 10/4 (December 2004). http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.04.10.4/toc.10.4.html Listening search list Study Questions
2. Spicer, Mark. (Ac)cumulative Form in Pop-Rock Music. 20th-Century Music 1/1 (2004): 29-64. eReserve Listening search list Study Questions
III. Jazz Studies A web page of listening examples for these articles is available through eReserve
1. Folio, Cynthia. 1995. An Analysis of Polyrhythm in Selected Improvised Jazz Solos. Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth West Marvin and Richard Hermann. University of Rochester Press, 103–34. eReserve Study questions
2. Larson, Steve. 2006. Rhythmic Displacement in the Music of Bill Evans. Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music: A Festschrift for Carl Schachter, ed. Poundie Burstein and David Gagne. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 103–122. eReserve
3. Waters, Keith. 1996. Blurring the Barline: Metric Displacement in the Piano Solos of Herbie Hancock Annual Review of Jazz Studies 8, pp. 19-37.
4. Progler, J.A. 1995. Searching for Swing: Participatory Discrepancies in the Jazz Rhythm Section. Ethnomusicology 39/1: 21–54 eReserve
5. Larson, Steve. 1999. "Swing and Motive in Three Performances by Oscar Peterson." Journal of Music Theory 43/2: 283–313. eReserve
7. Huang, Hao and Huang, Rachel V.. 1994–5. Billie Holiday and Tempo Rubato: Understanding Rhythmic Expressivity. Annual Review of Jazz Studies 7: 181–199.
7. Burns, Lori. 2005. Feeling the Style: Vocal Gesture and Musical Expression in Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong. Music Theory Online 11/3: http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.05.11.3/mto.05.11.3.burns.html
8. Folio, Cynthia and Robert W. Weisberg. 2006. Billie Holiday's Art of Paraphrase: A Study in Consistency, co-authored with Robert W. Weisberg, T, in New Musicology (Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology) Poznan, Poland: Poznan Press, 247–75. eReserve
IV. Performer Interaction and the Groove
1. Matthew W. Butterfield. The Power of Anacrusis: Engendered Feeling in Groove-Based Musics. Music Theory Online 12/4 (December 2006). http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.06.12.4/mto.06.12.4.butterfield.html Study Questions
2. Fernando Benadon. A Circular Plot for Rhythm Visualization and Analysis, Music Theory Online 13/3 (September 2007). http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.07.13.3/toc.13.3.html
3. Luis-Manuel Garcia. On and On: Repetition as Process and Pleasure in Electronic Dance Music. Music Theory Online, Volume 11/4 (October 2005). http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.05.11.4/toc.11.4.html Study Questions
Recent Music and Recent Scholarship
Susan McClary. Conventional Wisdom (University of California Press, 2000), Chapter 5.
Timothy A. Johnson, "Minimalism: Aesthetic, Style, or Technique?," Musical Quarterly 78 (Winter 1994): 742-73.
Michael L. Klein. Intertextuality in Western Art Music (Indiana University Press, 2005), Chapter 5.
Rebecca Leydon. Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes. Music Theory Online 8/4 (2002).
Charles Wilson. Gyrgy Ligeti and the Rhetoric of Autonomy. Twentieth-Century Music 1/1 (2004), 5-28.
Listening
Claude Debussy
Preludes, Selections from Book 1 (CD535)
Jeux (CD1008)
Nocturnes, Sirnes (CD 1008)
La Mer (CD 1008, 1930) score: M1002.D28M4 1970
Olivier Messiaen
piano
Preludes (CD 3521) (score: M25.M58P73 1930)
Mode des valeurs et d' intensite (CD 3521)
Catalogue d'oiseaux, book 1, Le loriot (CD 3538)
Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jsus (CD 2578) (score: M24.M56V5 1947)
organ
Les corps glorieux, L'Ange aux parfums, (CD 3430)
piano, clarinet, violin, and cello
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, mvts. 1 & 3, (CD 901), (CD 4848) (score: M422.M48Q3 1942x)
orchestra
Turangalla-symphonie (CD 2751)
Coleurs de la Cit celeste (CD 3522)
Chronochromie (CD 5009) score: M1045.M58C5 1963x
Sept hakai for piano and orchestra (CD 3522) score: M1010.M608H3
Toru Takemitsu
Quatrain II for piano, clarinet, violin, and cello (CD 5999)
Le yeux clos II for piano (CD 2080)
In an Autumn Garden for Gagaku ensemble (personal CD)
For Away, Rain Tree Sketch (CD 2230)
Riverrun for piano and orchestra (CD 6522)
Quotation of Dream for two pianos and orchestra (CD 5257)
Fantasma/Cantos for clarinet and orchestra (CD 5999)
Archipelago S for 21 players (CD 7093)
Discussed in the Jonathan Cross reading
Stravinsky. Petrushka (CD 8223)
Stravinsky. Le sacre du printemps (CD 8223)
Varse. Dserts, Poeme lectronique, Amriques (CD 4371)
George Antheil . Ballet mchanique (CD 4618)
Messiaen. Coleurs de la Cit celeste (CD 3522)
Stockhausen. Klavierstsck IX (CD 2579)
Stockausen. Momente (CD 5982)
Tippett. King Priam (CD 3511), (video 1660)
Birtwistle. Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum (CD 849)
Discussed in the Edward T. Cone reading
Stravinsky. Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Symphony of Psalms (CD 7825)
Minimalism
Reading: Timothy A. Johnson, "Minimalism: Aesthetic, Style, or Technique?
CD-853 Reich, Come Out
CD-3779 Reich, Drumming Music
CD-4556 Reich, Eight Lines
CD-3909 Reich, Violin Phase
CD-893 Reich, Tehillim
CD-5043 Reich, Different Trains
CD-5265 Reich, The Cave
CD-892 Riley, In C
CD-5013 Riley, Cadenza on the Night Plain
CD-5008 Glass, Einstein on the Beach
CD-5010 Glass, Songs from Liquid Days
CD-2553 Glass, Satyagraha
CD-2541 Adams, Grand Pianola Music
CD-3518 Adams, Phrygian Gates
CD-1835 Adams, Nixon in China
CD-3571 Torke, The Yellow Pages
CD-6767 Zorn, Spillane
Video: Four American Composers: Philip Glass (video 1595)
Web site: http://www.philipglass.com/
Watkins. Chapters 29 and 30
CD-3703 Luciano Berio: Circles, Sequenza 1 for flute
CD-239 Luciano Berio, Sinfonia
CD-341 Peter Maxwell Davies, Eight Songs for a Mad King
CD-4773 George Crumb, Ancient Voices of Children
CD-779 Rochberg, Music for the Magic Theatre
CD-4515 Rochberg, String Quartet No. 3
Timothy Koozin. "Spiritual-Temporal Imagery in Music of Olivier Messiaen and Toru Takemitsu." Contemporary Music Review 7/2 (1993).
CD 4848 Messiaen. Quartet for the End of Time, mvts 1 & 6
CD 3521 Messiaen. Prludes, "La Colombe"
CD-2080Takemitsu. For Away, Les yeux clos II
CD-5999Takemitsu. Quatrain II
More recommended works, some discussed in our readings:
CD-7093 Takemitsu, Archipelago S for 21 players
CD-5999 Takemitsu, Fantasma/Cantos for clarinet and orchestra
CD-852 Arvo Prt: Misere, Festina Lente
CD-5045 Frederic Rzewski, Four North American Ballads
CD-4785 Frederic Rzewski, The People United will Never Be Defeated!
CD-656 John Corigliano, Sonata for Violin and Piano
CD-4511 David Del Tredici, Acrostic Song from Final Alice
CD-327 David Del Tredici, Steps
CD-3538 Olivier Messiaen, Catalogue d Oiseaux (Books 1-3)
CD-5009 Olivier Messiaen, Chronochromie
CD-2751 Olivier Messiaen, Turangalila Symphony
CD-5012 Harry Partch, The Bewitched
CD-1449 Ben Johnston, Fourth String Quartet: Amazing Grace
LP-2943 Yannis Xenakis, Pithoprakta
CD-859 Krzysztof Penderecki, Threnody
CD-855 Krzysztof Penderecki, Cello Concerto
CD-1031 Witold Lutoslawski, Concerto for Orchestra
CD-3679 Witold Lutoslawski, String Quartet
CD-851 Gyorgy Ligeti: Atmospheres, Lontano
CD-4823 Luciano Berio, Linea
CD-3438 Luciano Berio, Points on the curve to find
CD-851 Luigi Nono, Liebeslied
CD-2554 George Crumb, Macrocosmos 1