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)