Class Schedule

(this may change, depending on your input)
Week 1: The post-war period, 1949-59
July 9, Monday
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Mode de valeurs et d'intensités (1949)
Pierre Boulez (1925-), Structures 1a (1951-52)
Introduction to set theory

July 10, Tuesday
Boulez, Le Marteau sans maître (1954, rev. 1957)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-), Kreuzspiel (1951)
Milton Babbitt (1916-), Three Compositions for Piano (1947)

July 11, Wednesdsay
John Cage (1912-1992), String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-48)
Music of Changes (1952)
4'33" (1952)

July 12, Thursday - Electronic Music
Pierre Shaeffer (1910-1995), Etude aux chemins de fer (1948)
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), Poème Electronique (1957-58)
Stockhausen, Gesang der Junglinge (1955-56)
Studie II (1953; version realized with Max/MSP, 2003)

Week 2, 1960-1979
July 16, Monday - radical aleatoric music, performance art
Terry Riley (1935-), In C (1964)
Lamont Young (1935-), Compositions 1960
Stockhausen, Aus den sieben Tagen (1968)
George Crumb (1929-), Black Angels (1970)

July 17, Tuesday
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Requiem Canticles (1966)
Messiaen, Chronochromie (1959-60)
Boulez, Eclat/Multiples (1965/70)
Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Sinfonia (1968-69)

July 18, Wednesday
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Atmosphères, Requiem, Le Grand Macabre
Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995), Underworld (1965)
Elliott Carter (1908-), A Mirror on which to Dwell (1976)

July 19, Thursday
Steve Reich, Clapping Music, Tehillim
Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach
Laurie Anderson (1947-), O Superman (1981), from Big Science (1982)

Week 3, 1980-1995
July 23, Monday - New Complexity
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), Herma
Brian Ferneyhough (1943-), Intermedio alla ciaccona for violin; Bone Alphabet for percussion; Etudes transcendentales for chamber ensemble

July 24, Tuesday - Spectralism
Tristan Murail (1947-), Gondwana (1983); L'esprit des dunes (1994)
Gérard Grisey (1946-1998), Vortex Temporum (1996)

July 25, Wednesday - mixing genres
John Adams (1947-), Nixon in China (1987)
Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997), Etudes for Player Piano; Piece no. 2 for chamber orchestra
Frederic Rzewsky (1938-), Les Moutons de Panurge; Antigone-Legende
Louis Andriessen (1935-) De Stijl (1984-85)

July 26, Thursday
Jonathan Harvey (1939), Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980)
Ligeti, Horn Trio (1982); Piano Etudes (1985-2001); Violin Concerto (1992)
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Triadic Memories; For Samuel Beckett

Week 4, 1996-2005
July 30, Monday
Thomas Adès (1971-), Asyla (1997)
Kaija Saariaho (1952-), Du Cristal (1989), L'amour de loin (2002)
Chen Yi (1953-), Si Ji (2005)

July 31, Tuesday
Helmut Lachenmann (1935-), Gran Torso for string quartet (1971)
special guest Jimmy Bunch on the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
two pieces by Stephen Taylor

August 1, Wednesday
student presentations

August 2, Thursday
final exam