Classical
Music in
America
M3115
CLASS
SCHEDULE
*Class lectures often differ from the
text readings.
There is a
great deal of very interesting material in the text that I do not ask
you to read. Much of it is covered in the Jazz section of Music in
America (M3116, taught in the Spring Semester) and some is not
covered at all (particularly the folk and ethnic styles which, in my
opinion, require much more than a cursory glance). Perhaps a special
studies class in these subjects is in order for those of you who may
be interested.
Please feel free to read the unassigned chapters and listen to the
additional listening guides.
From
Plymouth to Boston
"The First 3 Centuries"
Read Chapters 1-9
Listening Guides 1-12
Connecting to the 20th century
Chapter 28: "The Birthright of All of Us"
William Schuman - pp. 423, 425, 435
Aaron Copland - pp. 358, 361, 423, 435, 361, 355, 359, 360-362, 364, 425, 350
Listen to: CD2 Track 14 Copland "El Salon Mexico"
Listen to Copland "Appalachian Spring"
Listen to William Schuman "New England Triptych"
William Schuman - Ives "Variations on America"
The
Coming of Age
"The Early 19th Century"
Here is a practice test for the mid-term*
*NOTE: This test is NOT the mid-term and is only intended to illustrate the form of the exam and style of questions
The MID-TERM will be
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
After the Civil War
Readings and Listening assignments
from
An Introduction
to America's Music
Chapter 14
Of Yankee Doodle and
Ophicleides
pages
169-180
Please listen to the
Helene
Schottische (CD 1
#20)
Chapter
15
From Church to Concert
Hall
pages
181-192
Chapter
18
Two Classic
Bostonians
pages
214-226
Please listen to the
Symphonic
Sketches, first movement
(CD 1 #22)
and Beach's
Gaelic
Symphony, second movement (CD 1 #23)
Chapter
19
Edward MacDowell and Musical
Nationalism
pages
227-235
Please listen to MacDowell's
To a Wild Rose
(CD 1
#24)
Chapter
23
Stars, Stripes, and
Cylinders
pages
281-291
Please listen to
Sousa's Stars and Stripes
Forever (CD 2
#2)
Chapter
25
"To Stretch Our
Ears"
pages
309-324
Please listen
to The Circus Band
(CD 2
#4),
Serenity
(CD 2
#5),
and The
Housatonic at Stockbridge (CD 2 #6)
Chapter
27
Blues, Jazz, and a
Rhapsody
Rhapsody in
Blue
pages
351-355
Please listen to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (CD 2 #13)
Chapter
28
"The Birthright of All of
Us"
pages
356-368
Please listen
to El salon Mexico
(CD 2 #14), Cowell's
The
Banshee (CD 2
#15)
Chapter
33
Classical Music in the Postwar
Years
pages
421-435
Please listen to Carter's String
Quartet No. 1 (CD 3 #6), Babbitt's Philomel (CD 3
#7),
and Cage's
Williams
Mix (CD 3
#8)
Chapter
39
Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and
The Gap
pages
496-509
Please listen to Bolcom's Violin
Concerto in D Major (CD 3 #17) and
Glass' Einstein on the
Beach (CD3 #18)
Thanksgiving Break
November 19 - 27, 2011
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Last Day of Class
December 7 , 2011
Final Exam
Friday, December 9, 2011
1:05 - 3:05 P.M.
Squires Recital Salon
Practice Test for the final exam*
*NOTE: This test is NOT the final exam and is only intended to illustrate the form of the exam and style of questions
The final is not cumulative and covers only the material discussed since the mid-term
Class Notes
Billings and the Tunesmiths
The Dawn of Composition
The American Pipe Organ
Songs of the Civil War
The Band in America
Steven Foster and the American Song
Charles Ives
Barber
The 2nd New England School
The Boston Symphony
The Piano in America
Gottschalk
Nationalism
African-American Composers
Edward
MacDowell
Copland and Boulanger
Gershwin
ElliottCarter
Bernstein
The
Experimenters