Transcript DAT 335: Music Perception and Cognition

Contemporary Composition Seminar
Fall 2012
Instructor: Prof. SIGMAN
Thursday 14:00-16:00
Lecture I
0. Administrata
Required Textbooks
1) Paul Griffiths, Modern Music and After
1) Michael Nyman, Experimental Music
[available @ Amazon, Kyobo, etc.]
Additional articles/excerpts/book chapters supplied
and assigned by instructor.
Assessment
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Weekly assignments
Midterm Exam
Final Exam
Final Paper (ca. 5 pages)
Attendance/Participation/Attitude
Office Hours
• Wednesday (수요일) 14:00-15:00, or by
appointment
• Room 376
• Feel free to email me at any time!
Course Language
• [English and limited Korean]
• If *anything* is unclear, please let me know!!
Lecture slides…
• …will be emailed to you after each class
I. Course Content
A. Topics
• Music since ca. 1950
• “Style” and “Structure” : aesthetics,
techniques, how they influence each other
and change over time
• Experimental Music Movements and
Tendencies
B. Activities
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Readings
Music analysis
Critical listening
Writing
D. Course Structure
• 1) by chronology
• 2) by geography
E. Composer Survey
• See COMPOSER LIST document
• Some pieces/composers analysed in depth
• Others discussed superficially
• * = pieces to be discussed in class
F. Caveats
• 1) Syllabus subject to change!
• 2) Not ALL subtopics and pieces will be
covered!!
• Don’t worry! You will survive!
Composer Collage
II. Review of Repertoire, 1900-1950
A. Game: “Name That Tune”
• This is not a test!!
• Listen to the following pieces
• If you know of the name of the composer (and
piece?), write it down. If not, guess!!
B. Important (early) 20th Century
Composers
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Schönberg
Stravinsky
Debussy
Ravel
Berg
Webern
Cage
Satie
Bartok
Ives
Varèse
Messiaen
Cowell
Carl Ruggles
Percy Grainger
Harry Partch
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C. Important
Movements/Aesthetics/Approaches,
1900-1950
• Impressionism
• Expressionism
• Serialism and Post-Serialism (European and
North American)
• Neo-Classicism
• American Experimentalism
• Nationalism
Assignment for 13 September
• 1) Choose 3 of your favourite pieces
composed between 1900-1950
• 2) Tell me why they are your favourite pieces
(1-2 sentences each)