MUSI 4397 (section 29417) / 6397 (section 30590) Fall 2016 TuTh 10:00 - 11:30
Dr. Tim Koozin MSM 112 (713)743-3318 tkoozin@.uh.edu http://www.uh.edu/~tkoozin/
Course Description: Analytical and historical studies in music of our time and of the past century. Class meetings will take the form of a seminar, without formal lectures. Preparation and readiness to contribute in each class discussion is the student’s responsibility.
A music theory elective for undergraduate and graduate students.
Selected readings on UH Blackboard:
Glen Watkins. Soundings: Music in the Twentieth-Century (Schirmer Books, 1988)
Jonathan Cross. The Stravinsky Legacy (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Elliot Antokoletz. Twentieth-Century Music (Prentice Hall, 1992)
Joseph Straus. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory (Prentice Hall, 1990)
E-books:
Antokoletz, Elliott. Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok (Oxford University Press, 2004). e-book 10103537
Linda K. Cummins. Debussy and the Fragment (2006) ebook 10380241
Burton Fisher. Berg's Wozzeck, Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series (2005) e-book 10188422
Danielle Fosler-Lussier. Music Divided: Bartók's Legacy in Cold War Culture (University of California Press, 2007). e-book 10190624
Steve Reich and Paul Hillier. Writings on Music, 1965-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2002) e-book 10084785
Robert Fink. Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice (University of California Press, 2005). e-book 10088445
(Subject to change; All items are available on UH Blackboard unless otherwise noted.)
Debussy, Impressionism and Symbolism; Bartok
Watkins. Ch 5: Debussy: Impressionism and Symbolism (list of selected Debussy works)
Preludes, book 1, nos. 2, 3, and 10
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Danse sacre for harp and orchestra
Antokoletz. The Music of Bela Bartok, Ch 1
Bartok: Fourth String Quartet
Antokoletz e-book on operas by Debussy and Bartok e-book 10103537
Chapters 1 and 2
Pelléas et Mélisand, Act 1 (download score)
Pelléas et Mélisande: Chapters 3-4
Bluebeard's Castle: Chapter 9
Jann Passler article on Jeux
Jeux
Debussy's Legacy: Messiaen, Takemitsu, and others
Messiaen: Prelude, La Colombe; Quartet for the End of Time, mvt 1 and mvt 6 excerpt
Takemitsu: Koozin CMR articles
Saariaho and others
Techniques and Materials of Music Study Guide 11 (chord symbols, modes, scales and other basics)
Preview music for AURA contemporary ensemble concert, Monday, September 26, 7:30
Music by Clint Needham, Nick Omiccioli, Eamon Carmody, Ned Rorem, Rob Smith
TBA: assignments and guest presentation
FIRST PAPER due: Tuesday October 4
Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg
Rahn. Basic Atonal Theory, Analysis 1 on Webern, Symphonie, Op. 21
Antokoletz, Twentieth-Century Music, ch 3
Joseph Straus. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory (Prentice-Hall, 1990). Chapter 1 and Analysis 1 & 2
Various scores by Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg
Techniques and Materials of Music Study Guide 12 (some basics of set theory)
Stravinsky; Developments in the United States
Edward T. Cone, PNM article, "Progress of a Method"
Antokoletz, Twentieth-Century Music, ch 16
Jazz Excursion
Henry Martin. Charlie Parker and "Honeysuckle Rose": Voice Leading, Formula, and Motive. MTO 18.3 (2012) (See here for listening links and a study question.)
Stravinsky’s Legacy; Approaches to Musical Form
Straus, Remaking the Past, Ch 5 on Sonata form
Cross, Ch 1, 2, and 5: Block forms, Minimalism
Works by Stravinsky, Varese, Messiaen, Stockhausen, and others
Score for study: Petrushka excerpts
Jonathan D. Kramer. “Postmodern Concepts of Musical Time” Indiana Theory Review 17/2 (1996): 21-62.
Joseph Straus. Stravinsky's "Construction of Twelve Verticals": An Aspect of Harmony in the Serial Music
Preview music for AURA contemporary ensemble concert, Monday, November 14, 7:30. Guest composer: Kamran Ince. (Link for scores and audio in UH Blackboard)
SECOND PAPER due Thursday, November 10
Minimalism, Opera, Recent Music
Sean Atkinson. "Aspects of Otherness in John Adam's Nixon in China" (Blackboard)
Tim Johnson. "Minimalism: Aesthetic, Style or Technique?" (Blackboard)
Rebecca Leydon. "Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes," Music Theory Online 8/4 (2002). http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.02.8.4/toc.8.4.html
Class discussion on seleced pieces by John Adams (China Gates, El Nino, Death of Klinghoffer)
Cross, Ch 5, "Minimal Developments"
Rob Smith. EP (2013) YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJnx-5ikC3A
Recommended, but not required: Mervyn Cooke. Minimalist Opera - The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
Works by Cage, Reich, Glass, Adams, Torke, Andriessen, Zorn, and others
THIRD PAPER due Thursday, December 1
Possible items for discussion (as time allows):
Pop-Rock Excursion (study questions)
Allen F. Moore. The Persona-Environment Relation in Recorded Song. MTO 11.4 (2005)
Walter Everett. Making Sense of Rock's Tonal Systems. MTO 10.4 (2004)
Timothy Koozin. Guitar Voicing in Pop-Rock Music: A Performance-Based Analytical Approach. MTO 17.3 (2011)
Experimentation and New Music
Watkins, Ch 22, "The New Virtuosity."
Antokoletz, Modern Music, Ch 16, "Varied approaches to the twelve-tone principle and rhythmic formulization in the United States."
Readings on Carter by Schiff and Watkins
Works by Ives, Cage, Carter, Varèse, Ligeti, Penderecki, Berio, Stockhausen, Crumb
More music TBAAntokoletz, Modern Music, Ch 19: Chance, Improvisation, Open Form, and Minimalism
Readings and works by Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, and others
Julia Wolfe. Lick (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7nLfVQ2c0I
Thomas Ades. Asyla, Op. 17 (1997): III. Ecstasio. Naxos:
http://uh.naxosmusiclibrary.com.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/catalogue/item.asp?cid=0724355681850
David Lang. Sweet Air, mvt 2 (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9pDIfEUtc
Missy Mazzoli. Magic with Everyday Objects (2007)
Kaija Saariaho. Lumière et Pesanteur (2009)
audio
Grading:
Papers (3 x 25%) 75%
Class participation, short assignments, and quizzes 25%
A short analytical paper, about 5 pages in length (accounts for 25% of the grade).
Your analysis should focus on a specific analytical topic that could illuminate the performance of a selected musical work. Begin by choosing a single movement for detailed study. As you study the piece, hone in on a particular analytical issue that you believe has bearing on interpretation of the work.
Incorporate elements of the assigned readings and class discussion into your study. Plan to include a photocopied score with your analytical markings added. Other analytical charts or musical examples are also possible.
A piece composed by Debussy or another composer we’ve discussed in class is recommended. You might also wish to consider a more recent composition that displays the influence of Debussy's musical techniques and/or a relationship to symbolist and impressionist approaches.
You may consult other readings to develop your approach to the piece, but this is not required. Do include a bibliography of sources consulted.
Be prepared each day to informally discuss your work in progress.
Paper due at class time, Tuesday, October 4.
Second Paper
Same format as paper 1, but choose a topic focusing on a work by Stravinsky, Carter, or another composer from our readings (or another topic by approval). Due Thursday, November 10.
Final Paper
Again, same format. Select a piece for analysis composed after 1950. Your essay should explain the most siginificant findings of your detailed analysis of the score. Also in the essay, position your analyis in an interpretive context that relates your selected piece to our class readings and other compositions we have studied. Due Thursday, December 1.
Music and the Postmodern
Jonathan D. Kramer. “Postmodern Concepts of Musical Time” Indiana Theory Review 17/2 (1996): 21-62.
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 (Abîme)
Malcom Troup in The Messiaen Companion, p. 392-447( See especially parts on Chronochromie, Sept haïkaï, and Coleurs de la Cité celeste)
Jonathan Cross. The Stravinsky Legacy. (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Chapter on “Block Forms,” especially p. 46-63 (Turangalîla, 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.
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. “György Ligeti and the Rhetoric of Autonomy.” Twentieth-Century Music 1/1 (2004), 5-28.
Sean Atkinson. "Canons, Augmentations, and Their Meaning in Two Works by Steve Reich" Music Theory Online 17/1 (2011)
Claude Debussy
Preludes, Selections from Book 1 (CD535)
Jeux (CD1008)
Nocturnes, “Sirènes” (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 Jésus (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
Turangalîla-symphonie (CD 2751)
Coleurs de la Cité celeste (CD 3522)
Chronochromie (CD 5009) score: M1045.M58C5 1963x
Sept haïkai 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)
Varése. Déserts, Poeme électronique, Amériques (CD 4371)
George Antheil . Ballet méchanique (CD 4618)
Messiaen. Coleurs de la Cité celeste (CD 3522)
Stockhausen. Klavierstsück 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
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 Pärt: 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 dí 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
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