MUSIC 321/521

Course Outline Spring 2008

Week	Topic	Reading in Simms
1	Intro to 20^th Century Late Romantics: Strauss and Mahler	pp. 3-20, 123-30
2	Late Romantics: Mahler and Schoenberg	pp. 155-58, 132-40
3	Second Viennese School: Atonality, Expressionism, Berg and Webern	pp. 138-45, 149, 151-54
4	Modality; Paris: Debussy and Ravel	pp. 53-56, 163-73, 177-80
5	Paris: Debussy and Ravel
6	Scriabin and Stravinsky	pp. 181-93
7	Stravinsky and Satie	pp. 173-76
8	Les Six	pp. 234-45
9	Charles Ives 12-tone Technique Interactive Matrix	pp. 296-304 pp. 61-74
10	Hindemith Nationalism Hungarians: Bartok, Kodaly	pp. 245-53 pp. 203-17
11	Americans: Gershwin, Harris, Copland	pp. 266-80
12	Russians: Shostakovich and Prokofiev	pp. 193-200
13	Futurism, Alternate Sound Resources Varese, Electronic Music, Babbitt, Serialism	pp. 306-7 pp. 311-15, 365-76
14	John Cage, Determinacy and Indeterminacy	pp. 343-53
15	The New Virtuosity Minimalism Post Modernism	pp. 403-04, 395-401 pp. 404-10, 391-94

Important Dates:

Mar. 17-21 Spring Break

Tues. Apr. 8 Research Paper Due

Thurs. May 1 Composition Project Due

Tues. May 13 All quizzes and online assignments expire at 11:59 p.m.

Wed. May 14 Final Exam 12:30 2:30 9.m.

Online Quizzes will be available upon completion of all topics on the quiz. The quiz content is as follows:

Quiz 1: Late Romantics through Second Viennese School

Quiz 2: Paris: Debussy and Ravel

Quiz 3: Russians, Satie, Les Six, Charles Ives

Quiz 4: 12-Tone, Hindemith, Nationalists (Hungarian, Russian, American)

Quiz 5: Alternate Sound Resources, Serialism, Postmodernism (all topics weeks 13-15)