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Sep. 17 Middle Ages
Sep. 19 Josquin: Ave Maria
Sep. 26 Monteverdi: Zefiro Torna Madrigal
Sep. 26 Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
Oct. 1 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Oct. 1 Bach: Fugues
Oct. 3 Bach: McClary, Brandenburg Concertos, Cantatas
* You can find all classical period files in the following links: haydn, moz-variations, moz-40th-sym, 5th-sym, 9th-sym, sonata8. *.aup files open with Audacity.
Oct. 8 Classicism
Oct. 8 Multi-Movement Genres, Rondo and Variation
Oct. 10 Sonata Form: Development vs. Variation
Oct. 15 Beethoven Symphony No. 5: Cells and Motifs
Oct. 17 Sonata Form: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8
Romanticism
Oct. 22 Schubert: Erkling
Oct. 22 Schumann: Dichterliebe
Oct. 23 Berlioz Concert @ NYPhil
Oct. 24 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (link will be up soon!)
Oct. 31 Chopin: Prelude No. 4
Oct. 31 Wagner
Nov. 7 Quiz: covers all Beethoven and Romanticism…
Modernism
Nov. 7 Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
Nov. 12 Debussy: La Cathédrale Engloutie
Nov. 12 Debussy: La Mer
Nov. 14 Stravinsky: Le Scare du Printemps
American Experimentalism
Nov. 19 Henry Cowell
Nov. 19 John Cage
Nov. 21 Harry Partch
Nov. 26 Quiz No. 4 + Jazz Live Demo
Nov. 28 Jazz
Europe Post-War
Dec. 3 Boulez, Nono, Messiaen
Electronic and Computer Music
Dec. 5 Theremin
Dec. 5 Electronic Music
Dec. 5 Computer Music (+ Live Performance)
OLD………:
La Traviata, and Opera today. Opera Visit
Pop Music & Closing Thoughts
Some tentative subjects:
Profesional/Virtuosic vs. Amateurs : Musical Ecologies/Communities
Creepy vs. Happy : Is all contemporary music creepy?
Biological vs. Cultural : How much of the way we listen to music is conditioned by biology and how much is cultural?
Context vs. Music : How much of the context is embedded in music?