Th-3 Fall 2013
Listening Test #1 (Sept. 19) Listening Test #4 (Nov. 12) Debussy “La cathédrale engloutie” Witold Lutoslawski Jeux vénitiens (Venetian Games) Debussy “Canope” György Ligeti Ramifications Debussy “Voiles” George Rochberg Sixth String Quartet movement III Stravinsky Introduction to The Rite of Spring Luciano Berio Sinfonia movement III Bartók “Song of the Harvest” George Crumb “Dream Images (Love-Death Music)” from Makrokosmos Bartók “Whole-Tone Scale” from Mikrokosmos
Bartók “Diminished Fifth” from Mikrokosmos Steve Reich Violin Phase Bartók “From the Island of Bali” from Mikrokosmos Louis Andriessen De Staat Webern Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 Arvo Pärt Cantus !mvmt. II Augusta Read Thomas Scat for Oboe, String Trio and Webern Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 !Piano !mvmt. III Shulamit Ran Mirage
Listening Test #2 (Oct. 3) Thomas Adès Asyla Schoenberg “O alter Duft” from Pierrot lunaire Kaija Saariaho Lonh Berg “Schlafend trägt man mich” Stravinsky Overture from Pulcinella Hindemith Interlude in G from Ludus tonalis Listening Test #5 (during Final Charles Ives “The Things Our Fathers Loved” Exam) Charles Ives “The Cage” This will be cumulative and my contain any piece from Ruth Crawford Seeger String Quartet (1931) any earlier listening test. !mvmt. III There will also be a style recognition section. In this Dallapiccola “Contrapunctus secundus” section, I will play pieces that you will likely have never heard before. You will need to assign it to an aesthetic Dallapiccola “Quartina” style and guess as to the composer and approximate Webern “Wie bin ich froh” date.
Listening Test #3 (Oct. 29) Webern Piano Variations movement II Schoenberg Klavierstück Op 33a Stravinsky “Lacrimosa” from Requiem Canticles Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony Elliott Carter String Quartet No. 2, mvmt. I Stockhausen Stimmung Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge John Cage Sonata No. 5 from Sonatas and Interludes Milton Babbitt Philomel