Syllabus,
Spring 2007 Music
History & Literature MUSC 3132 Twentieth
Century Music
STUDY
GUIDE: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
(& BEYOND)
The
last Unit test will cover these readings in WEISS/TARUSKIN:
146: Music
and Ideology
149:
New Developments in Serialism (pp. 507-512) - Boulez and Babbitt.
Read carefully the section by Milton Babbitt (pp. 509-512) on "integral
serialism" and
relate it to Bonds (pp. 620-623)
153: The Music
of Chance (John Cage) pp. 522-525 -- relate to pp. 623-4 in Bonds
155:
The Contemporary Composer and Society(You are already
reading these two for your final research essay)
MILTON
BABBITT's "The Composer as Specialist" (pp. 529-534)
GEORGE
ROCHBERG's response to Babbitt (pp. 534-538)