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Music & Society

MUSI 3322 Fall, 2010
Syllabus

1. Tues. Aug. 24 – Overview/Terminology

Points of Attack for Verbalization in the Arts:

reporter, theorist, analyst, historian, judge, companion, independent creator

The Elements of Music:

Location: antiphonal music, performance spaces, environmental music

Intensity: dynamics, crescendo/diminuendo, ppp/fff/balance
Duration: rhythm (regular, irregular), meter (simple/compound, duple/triple), tempo,
accent/stress, syncopation, accelerando/ritardando, beat/pulse, measures,
prestissimo/larghissimo, rubato, articulation, legato/staccato
Timbre: voice types, families of musical instruments, score order, pizzicato, solo, tutti,
electronics
Pitch: note/tone, register (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), voices/texture, pitch class,
interval/unison, harmony, melody, ratios, overtone series, dissonance/consonance,
tension/resolution, musical gravity, common practice, keys/scales, chords, sequences,
parallel/contrary motion, diatonic circle of 5ths, modulating circle of 5ths, pandiatonic,
polytonality, atonality, 12-tone (serial), microtones, clusters, sound mass

The Organization of Music:

Elements of Form: unity/variety, motif, theme/melody, phrase, period, movement, variation,

counterpoint, imitation, texture

Musical Forms: ABA, variations, ground bass (chaconne/passacaglia), ritornello, binary,

ternary, rondo (ABACABA), canon, fugue, sonata-allegro, concerto, cadenza, serial techniques,
open form (aleatoric), improvisation

Dramatic Structure: exposition, conflict, crisis, climax, dénouement

Emotion and Meaning in Music:

Absolute vs. Program Music; Absolute vs. Inherent vs. Referential; Imitation, Symbol, System

Music in Society (Historical Context):

Dates, Periods, Style Characteristics, Schools of Thought (isms), Major Figures and their Musical
Personalities, Representative Masterworks, Political/Economic/Social Climate (Power
Structure and Market), Corollaries in Literature/Theater/Visual Art
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2. Tues., Aug. 31 – Writing About Music/Greeks/Medieval/Early Renaissance

Reading/Listening: Wingell – entire book; Bonds – pp. 1-85 + CD examples;
Weiss/Taruskin – pp. 1-168

3. Tues., Sept. 7 – Late Renaissance/Early Baroque

Reading/Listening: Bonds – pp. 86-275 + CD examples; Weiss/Taruskin – pp. 169-254

4. Tues., Sept. 14 – Late Baroque/Roccoco

Reading/Listening: see above + Weiss/Taruskin – pp. 255-286

Friday, Sept. 17 – American Music for Cello and Piano – 8:00 p.m. Jonsson Performance Hall

5. Tues., Sept. 21 – The Classical Style

Reading/Listening: Bonds – 276-347 + CD examples; Weiss/Taruskin – pp. 287-334
Written Assignment I (Comparative Analysis) Due

6. Tues., Sept. 28 – Mozart and Haydn

Reading/Listening: see above

7. Tues., Oct. 5 – Mozart and Beethoven

Reading/Listening: see above

8. Tues., Oct. 12 – Guest Lecture: Enric Madriguera – Music in the Hispanic World

9. Tues., Oct. 19 – Guest Lecture: Winston Stone – The Instrumentalist as Theatrical Performer

10. Tues., Oct. 26 – 19thCentury I – Classical Forms (Schubert, Schumann, Brahms)

Reading/Listening: Bonds – pp. 348-471 + CD examples; Weiss/Taruskin pp. 335-416
Written Assignment II (Comparative Analysis) Due

11. Tues., Nov. 2 – 19th Century II - Freer Forms (Liszt, Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler, Strauss,
Debussy)
Reading/Listening: see above

12. Tues., Nov. 9 – 20th Century I – Exploding the System (Schönberg and his Legacy)
Reading/Listening: Bonds – pp. 472-602 + CD examples; Weiss/Taruskin – pp. 417-538

13. Tues., Nov. 16 – 20th Century – Expanding Within the System (Stravinsky and his Legacy)
Reading/Listening: see above

14. Tues., Nov. 23 – Modern vs. Post-Modern

Reading/Listening: see above

15. Tues., Nov. 30 – Music Today/Summary

Reading/Listening: see above

Friday, Dec. 3 – Musica Nova Concert – 8:00 Jonsson Performance Hall

Written Assignment III (Comparative Analysis) Due
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Bibliography
* = special recommendation

I. General Reference

Apel, Willi, ed. Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970

Crabtree, Phillip D. and Foster, Donald H. Sourcebook for Research in Music: A Bibliography of
Bibliographies. Indiana Univ. Press, 1999

Dorian, Frederick. The History of Music in Performance: The Art of Musical Interpretation from the
Renaissance to Our Day. New York: Norton, 1966

Duckles, Vincent H. and Reed, Ida. Music Reference and Research Materials. Wadsworth
Publishing, 1997

Hitchcock, H. Wiley and Sadie, Stanley, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music.
London: McMillan, 1986 (4 volumes)

Grout, Donald J. A History of Western Music. New York: Norton, 1980

Grout, Donald J. A Short History of Opera. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1965

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music. London: McMillan, 1980 (20 volumes)

*Strunk, William and White, E.B. The Elements of Style. New York: McMillan, 1979

II. Source Documents

Chip, Herschel B. Theories of Modern Art, A Source Book by Artists and Critics. Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1971

Davison, Archibald T. and Apel, Willi, eds. Historical Anthology of Music. Cambridge: Harvard
Univ. Press, 1949 (2 volumes)

Kolodin, Irving, ed. The Composer as Listener. New York: Horizon Press, 1958

Morgenstern, Sam, ed. Composers on Music: An Anthology of Composers’ Writings from Palestrina
to Copland. New York: Pantheon Books, 1956

Parrish, Carl and Ohl, John F., eds. Masterpieces of Music Before 1750. New York: Norton

Strunk, Oliver, ed. Source Readings in Music History. New York: Norton, 1965 (5 volumes)

*Weiss, Piero and Taruskin, Richard, eds. Music in the Western World, A History in Documents.
New York: Schirmer Books, 1984
Bibliography, p. 2

III. Humanities/Interdisciplinary/Arts in Society

*Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1977

Blaukopf, Kurt. Musical Life in A Changing Society. Portland: Amadeus Press, 1992

Cantor, Norman. The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times. New York:
HarperCollins, 1997

Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture. Boston: Beacon Press,
1955

Huizinga, Johan. The Waning of the Middle Ages. New York: Anchor, 1954

*Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Parody. New York: Mathuen, 1985

Lebrecht, Norman. Discord: Conflict and the Making of Music. New York: Universe Books, 1983

Lebrecht, Norman. The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power. New York: Birch
Lane Press, 1991

Leppert, Richard and McClary, Susan, eds. Music and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1987

Meyer, Leonard B. Music, the Arts and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in 20th-Century Culture.
Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1967

Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I.
New York: Random House, 1968

Shepherd, John. Music as Social Text. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991

Treitler, Leo. Music and the Historical Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1989

Watkins, Glenn. Pyramids at the Louvre: Music, Culture and Collage from Stravinsky to the
Postmodernists. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1994

Winternitz, Emanuel. Musical Instruments and their Symbolism in Western Art. Newhaven: Yale
Univ. Press, 1979
Bibliography, p. 3

IV. Musical Period/Composer Studies

Medieval/Renaissance

Brown, Howard M. Music in the Renaissance. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1976

Reese, Gustave. Music in Middle Ages. New York: Norton

Reese, Gustave. Music in the Renaissance. New York: Norton

Seay, Albert. Music in the Medieval World. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965

Baroque

Arnold, Dennis and Fortune, Nigel, eds. The Monteverdi Companion. New York: Norton, 1968

Bukofzer, Manfred F. Music in the Baroque Era. New York: Norton, 1947

David, Hans T and Mendel, Arthur, eds. The Bach Reader. New York: Norton

Hogwood, Christopher. Handel. London: Thames and Hudson, 1984

Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968

Classical

Dent, Edward J. Mozart’s Operas. : London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970

Einstein, Alfred. Mozart. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979

Geiringer, Karl and Geiringer, Irene. Haydn: A Creative Life in Music. Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1983

Pauly, Reinhard G. Music in the Classic Period. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965

*Rosen, Charles. The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.,
1972

19th Century

Berlioz, Hector. Evenings with the Orchestra. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1973

Einstein, Alfred. Music in the Romantic Era. New York: Norton

Geiringer, Karl. Brahms. London; Da Capo Press, 1982

Rosen, Charles. The Romantic Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1995
MWC Bibliography, p. 4
20th Century

*Austin, William W. Music in the 20th Century. New York: Norton

Copland, Aaron. The New Music. New York: Norton

*Kowalke, Kim H., ed. A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press,
1986

Griffiths, Paul. Modern Music: The Avant-Garde Since 1945. New York: George Braziller, 1981

Sanders, Ronald. The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill. New York: Limelight
Editions, 1985

Schebera, Jürgen. Kurt Weill: An Illustrated Life. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995

*Smith-Brindle, Reginald. The New Music. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977

White, Eric Walter. Stravinsky. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1979

V. Music Criticism

Graf, Max. Composer and Critic: Two Hundred Years of Music Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton
& Co., 1946

Pleasants, Henry. The Agony of Modern Music. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955

Rosen, Charles. The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music. New York: Hill and
Wang, 1994

Shaw, Bernard. The Great Composers. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1978

Shaw, Bernard. Music in London. New York: Horizon Press, 1973 (4 volumes)

Slonimsky, Nicolas. Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers since Beethoven’s
Time. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1984

Stravinsky, Igor. Poetics of Music. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970

Dr. Robert Xavier Rodríguez

Music & Society

Listening/Discussion Worksheet

For each example, please provide as much information as you can in the following categories,
giving reasons for your answers:

Musical Style Period (list characteristics of more than one style, if necessary)

Country and Approximate Date of Composition

Composer (may list more than one possibility)

Genre

Form (cite interesting features of organization)

Intended Audience and Performance Venue

Observations Re: Social and Political History and Corollaries in Other Art Forms