Assignment for Thursday, July 26

Apologies for the late posting - here is some listening for tomorrow (sorry, no online Adams yet, & for some reason the Andriessen links aren't working on my machine - but apparently they work on Windows).

• Jonathan Harvey, Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
• Ligeti, Violin Concerto, movements I, III, and IV
• Ligeti, Piano Etudes 1 "Désordre"; 6 "Automne à Varsovie"; 7 "Galam Borong"; 16 "Pour Irina"

Please read the following articles:

• Patricia Lynn Durks, "An analysis of Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco." Originally published in eContact! 9.2 Canadian Regions: The Prairies. Montréal: Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community, March 2007. Many interesting computer screenshots in this article.
• (There is also some good material about this work in Joshua Fineberg's Appendix II, "Music Examples," pp. 118-19.)

On Ligeti's later music, see the following:

• Stephen Taylor, Chopin, Pygmies, and Tempo Fugue: Ligeti's "Automne à Varsovie," in Music Theory Online, Volume 3 Number 3 (May 1997).
• Taylor, Passacaglia and Lament in Ligeti's Recent Music, (pdf) in the Dutch Journal of Music Theory, Volume 9 Number 1 (February 2004).

On Nancarrow, there is a terrific book by Kyle Gann, The Music of Conlon Nancarrow, published in 1995 and still the most authoritative source I know of. Here also is a very interesting website describing midi realizations of Study 37, a piece I had not known before - excellent graphic examples here as well:

• Robert Willey, Electronic Realizations of Conlon Nancarrow's Study No. 37 for Player Piano