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     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