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Syllabus Orientalism/Exoticism I: Bach 1 V55.0730.010 – Expressive Cultures: Sound -Spring 2011; TR 2.00-3.15; 320 Silver Rena Charnin Mueller SYLLABUS ORIENTALISM/EXOTICISM I: BACH 25 - 27 January Introduction: Musical Terminology and Chronology 1 – 3 February Historical Considerations / “Wachet auf,” BWV 140 8 – 10 - 15 February Kaffee-Kantate [Coffee Cantata ], “Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht,” BWV 211 17 February Exam / First Paper Due ORIENTALISM/EXOTICISM II: MOZART 22 - 24 February Historical Considerations / Opera and the Enlightenment 1 – 3, 8 - 10 March Die Entführung aus dem Serail 14 – 20 MARCH: SPRING BREAK 22 March Die Entführung aus dem Serail 24 March Exam / Second Paper Due ORIENTALISM/AESTHETICISM: GILBERT & SULLIVAN 29 - 31 March Historical Considerations: Aesthetics and Imperialism 5 – 7, 12 April The Mikado 14 April Exam / Third Paper Due ORIENTALISM/IMPERIALISM: WRIGHT & FORREST, BORODIN 19 – 21 April Historical Considerations: The Empire • Edward Knoblock: Kismet (the play) • Otis Skinner: Kismet - the Movie(s) 26 – 28 April, 3 May Wright & Forrest: • Kismet, the Musical • Alexander Borodin: Kismet - the musical sources 5 May Exam / Fourth Paper due * * * 2 REQUIRED MUSIC (ALL ON CD AND/OR DVD IN THE AVERY FISHER LISTENING CENTER) • Bach, Johann Sebastian: o “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme,” Cantata BWV 140 o “Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht” (Kaffee-Kantate), BWV 211 • Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (complete) • Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (complete) • Wright & Forrest: Kismet (complete – original cast recording) • Borodin, Alexander o Symphony I in Eb Major o Symphony II in B Minor o In the Steppes of Central Asia o Prince Igor: listen to the 4-act version, concentrating on the Overture Act II and the music of the Polovetsian Dances o String Quartet No. 2 in D Major o Serenade chetïryokh kavalerov yednoy dame [Serenade of Four Cavaliers to One Lady] • Rachmaninoff: o “Ne me chant plus, ma belle devant moi” (“O sing me no more the songs of’ Georgia”, Pushkin), Op. 4/4 You are responsible for reading all the respective libretti. If you intend to purchase either a set of CDs or DVDs, please check with me first: there are many different versions available, not all of them worth the hefty price they command. REQUIRED TEXTS AND AUDIO-VISUAL ELEMENTS 1. Said, Edward, Orientalism. 25th Anniversary Edition. Vintage Books: New York, 2003. 2. ……. Culture and Imperialism. Vintage Books: New York, 1994. 3. Mozart, The Abduction from the Seraglio. G. Schirmer libretto. New York 4. Gilbert, William Schwenck. The Mikado (online at http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/mikado/html/index.html) 5. Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, paperback edition. You are required to have read the following materials, listened to the CDs, and looked at the appropriate videos or DVDs BEFORE we discuss the compositions and 3 individuals they concern in class. Copies of all will be on reserve in Bobst Library on the 2nd floor. FOR THE PART OF THE SYLLABUS DEALING WITH BACH: • Libretto for both Cantata 140 and the Kaffee-Kantate (handouts; also on Blackboard) • Wolff, Christoph, The New Bach Reader – A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1998 (revision of the earlier Hans David/Arthur Mendel Bach Reader [1966]). o Chronology o Part I: “Johann Sebastian Bach: A Portrait in Outline” o Part II: pp. 113/14 – “Order of the Divine Service in Leipzig for November 28, 1723” pp. 145-51: “Bach’s Short But Most Necessary Draft for a Well- Appointed Church Music, with certain Modest Reflections on the Decline of the Same: Memorandum to the Leipzig Town Council” o Part VII: “Bach in the Romantic Era” FOR THE PART OF THE SYLLABUS DEALING WITH MOZART: • Synopsis and Libretto for Die Entführung aus dem Serail (handouts, Schirmer paperback, required) • Said, Orientalism: o Prefaces and Introduction o Chapter 1: “The Scope of Orientalism” o Chapter 2: “Orientalist Structures and Restructures,” concentrating on IV: “Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French” • Said, Culture and Imperialism o Introduction o Chapter 1: “Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories” o Chapter 2: “Consolidated Vision,” concentrating on sections I through IV • Strunk, Oliver, Source Readings in Music History, rev. ed. Leo Treitler, ed. (1998) o Chapter 134: Francesco Algarotti, “From ‘An Essay on the Opera’” (1755), 909-22 o Chapter 136: Christoph Willibald Gluck, “Dedication for Alceste” (1769), 933-34 o Chapter 140: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Letters to His Father,” 965- 69 • Farinelli, Il Castrato (1994), dir. Gérard Corbiau (DVD, on reserve) • Amadeus (1984), dir. Peter Shaffer (DVD, on reserve) 4 FOR THE PART OF THE SYLLABUS DEALING WITH GILBERT & SULLIVAN: • William S. Gilbert, The Mikado o The Mikado, complete libretto – online at http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/mikado/html/index.html o Michael Beckerman, “The Sword on the Wall: Japanese Elements and their Significance in The Mikado.” The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 3 (1989), pp. 303-19 (accessible through JSTOR) – also on Blackboard o “The Mikado,” in Gilbert & Sullivan: A History and a Comment, by H. M. Walbrook (1922), with a Foreword by Sir Henry Wood. This book is on-line at http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/books/walbrook/index.html o Topsy-Turvy (1999), dir. Mike Leigh (DVD) FOR THE PART OF THE SYLLABUS DEALING WITH WRIGHT & FORREST / BORODIN: • Edward Knoblock, Kismet (play; on reserve) • Wright & Forrest, Kismet (libretto of the musical; on reserve) • Lawrence of Arabia (1962, dir. David Lean; DVD) • A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990 TV, dir. Christopher Menaul; DVD) • The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968, dir. Tony Richardson; DVD) • Kismet (1944, with Marlene Dietrich; VHS) • Kismet (1955, with Howard Keel; DVD) OTHER SUGGESTED READING (chapters from these books will be assigned as appropriate because, sadly, the Prentice-Hall books are out of print): Rosen, The Romantic Generation (Harvard University Press; on reserve) Ringer, Early Romantic Music (Prentice-Hall; on reserve) Samson, Late Romantic Music (Prentice-Hall; on reserve) * * * You are required to attend one preceptorial section per week, as follows: M 09:30am - 10:45am WS SILV 218 SWEETMAN, LAUREN M 11:00am - 12:15pm WS SILV 218 SWEETMAN, LAUREN R 09:30am - 10:45am WS WAVE 365 REIDY, ANNA R 11:00am - 12:15pm WS SILV 218 REIDY, ANNA In these sections, the Preceptors (Lauren Sweetman [[email protected]] and Anna Reidy 5 [[email protected]]) will cover aspects of music fundamentals (terminology, visuals symbols, listening strategies), and they will also be available to answer questions related to all assignments, listening, reading, and viewing. Each preceptorial section will have its own papers and examinations, and these results will be factored into your final grade. Clearly, ATTENDANCE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. All the reserve materials, as well as the tapes and CDs for listening and the movies we will view, will be in the Music Library (Avery Fisher Music and Media Center [AFLC], Bobst, 2nd floor). If you cannot find a particular item on reserve (it may be in use for another class, for instance), then just look up the work in the general collection catalogue and ask for another performance: there are multiple CDs and DVDs in the AFLC. If you choose to purchase any of the scores, many are available in Dover reprints and can be had for discounted prices from Amazon.com, or directly from Dover on-line. Since the Patelson Music House closed, the only other discount retail establishment in NY that carries scores is Frank Music [244-250 West 54th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10019; telephone: (212)582-1999; store hours: Monday-Friday 11-5; E-mail: [email protected]], which also has an excellent web-site [http://www.frankmusiccompany.com/catalog/]. It will be worth your while to become familiar with the great on-line dictionary for music, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) (www.grovemusic.com), which can be accessed free of charge from any NYU computer. There is a fine search engine, and the 29-volume hard copy is also available in the Music Library as well as in the office of the Music Department (24 Waverly Place, Room 268). There are earlier editions of Grove on the shelves in Bobst, and it is sometimes interesting to compare articles (it appeared approximately every 20 years, but only the last one is on line and is being updated continuously). Apart from the Gilbert & Sullivan Archive web-site (www.math.boisestate.edu/GaS), OTHER ON-LINE REFERENCE TOOLS ARE USED AT YOUR OWN PERIL, save such as The Catholic Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and a very few others. WIKIPEDIA is off-limits, and I suggest that you check with your Preceptor or with me concerning on-line references for any of the papers. I am a firm believer in BOOKS and use of the Library as your primary reference location, not on- line sources. COURSE REQUIREMENTS The requirements for the course include a series of four (4) papers and examinations at the end of each section of the syllabus (Bach, Mozart, Gilbert & Sullivan, Kismet), and a grade in the Preceptorial. No late papers will be accepted. There is no Final Examination. Please note the manner of bibliographic citation for music titles, book titles, articles, etc. used in this syllabus. If you like, you can use it as a model for your written work. You can also use other systems AS LONG AS YOU ARE CONSISTENT. 6 Office hours: Wednesday, 2.00-5.00 p.m., BY APPOINTMENT. 24 Waverly Place, Room 268D; call Pauline Lum (212/998-8301) to schedule. Telephone: 212/998-8309; email: <[email protected]>. I would like to hear in advance from ANYONE who anticipates missing class. .
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