TH-4 Schedule Spring 2011 11 Composition #1 Performance (this schedule is subject to change) 13 Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony Feb: Elliott Carter String Quartet No. 2 2 Scale Theory ======18 Stockhausen Stimmung 7 Scale Theory (cont.) Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge John Cage Sonata No. 5 9 Scale Theory (cont.) from Sonatas and Interludes Pitch-Class Set Theory ======20 Listening Test #4 14 Pitch-Class Set Theory Listening Journal Due (up to this date) Witold Lutoslawski Jeux vénitiens 16 Pitch-Class Set Theory György Ligeti Ramifications ======George Rochberg Sixth String Quartet mvmt. 3 21 Scale/Pitch-Class Set Test (no score) ======23 Listening Test #1 25 Luciano Berio Sinfonia movement III Debussy “La cathédrale engloutie” George Crumb “Dream Images (Love-Death Music)” Debussy “Canope” from Makrokosmos Debussy “Sarabande” ======27 Steve Reich Violin Phase 28 Stravinsky Introduction to The Rite of Spring Louis Andriessen De Staat Arvo Pärt Cantus March: ======2 Bartók “Song of the Harvest” May: Bartók “Whole-Tone Scale” from Mikrokosmos 2 Augusta Read Thomas Spring Song Bartók “Diminished Fifth” from Mikrokosmos Thomas Adès Asyla Bartók “From the Island of Bali” from Mikrokosmos Kaija Saariaho Lonh (no score) ======7 Webern Five Movements for String Quartet, II 4 Composition Lessons Webern Five Movements for String Quartet, III ======9 History/Biography Test 9 Listening Test #2 Completed Listening Journal Due Listening Journal Due (up to this date) Schoenberg “Angst und Hoffen” from Book of the Hanging Gardens FINAL EXAM: May 13th at 9:00 AM Berg “Schlafend trägt man mich” COMP #2 Performances ======14 Stravinsky Agnus Dei from Mass Hindemith Interlude in G from Ludus tonalis Hindemith “Vom Tode Mariä I” from Das Marienleben
16 Charles Ives “The Things Our Fathers Loved” Charles Ives “The Cage” Ruth Crawford Seeger (no sound file) Introduction to 12-Tone Music ======21 Dallapiccola “Contrapunctus secundus” Dallapiccola “Quartina” Webern “Wie bin ich froh”
23 Listening Test #3 Listening Journal Due (up to this date) Webern Piano Variations movement II Schoenberg Klavierstück Op 33a ======28 Stravinsky “Lacrimosa” from Requiem Canticles Pierre Boulez Structures Ia Milton Babbitt Philomel
30 Composition Lessons ======April: 4 Spring Break
6 Spring Break ======