MUSIC AND TIME:
Structure and Temporality in Post-Tonal Music
List of topics / pieces:
Content Dictates Form (Traditional Introductions):
Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76, Nos. 3 & 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major Op. 109
Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade
New Visions of Old Forms:
Berg: Wozzeck — Acts I and III
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Sibelius: Tapiola
Stasis:
La Monte Young: Composition 1960 Number 7
Debussy: Jeux; Selected Preludes
Webern: Symphony Op. 21
Tyshawn Sorey: For George Lewis
The Balinese Gamelan: Music from the Morning of the World (Nonesuch Explorer Series)
Non-linearity:
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles
Stockhausen: Kontakte
Alex Mincek: Chamber Concerto
Circular Forms:
Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time
Boulez: Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Continuous Variation:
Carter: String Quartet No. 2, A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
George Benjamin: Sudden Time; Upon Silence
Andrew Norman: Sustain
Andrew Norman: Play
SELECTED READINGS:
Kramer, Jonathan: The Time of Music - New Meanings, New Temporalities, New Listening Strategies
Allen, Thomas: Time and Literature
Griffiths, Paul: Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time
Edwards, Allen: Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds: A Conversation with Elliott Carter
Stockhausen, Karlheinz: Momentform
Rosen, Charles: Sonata Forms
Boulez, Pierre: ‘Form’ from Orientations