Listening

This page presents the required listening for the course.

LEC # LISTENING
1 (no Listening assignment for this session)
Prelude: 1900-1960
2 Buy at Amazon Schoenberg, Arnold. "Pierrot lunaire." (1912). Jan de Gaetani, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21; The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15. Nonesuch, 1993.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Variations for Orchestra." (1928). Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta. Verklärte Nacht Op. 4; Pieces Op.16/1-5. Decca, 1997.

Buy at Amazon Berg, Alban. "Five Orchestral Songs (Altenberg-Lieder)." (1912). Margaret Price, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado. Lulu Suite, Alternberg-Lieder.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Wozzeck." (1922). Paris National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Pierre Boulez. Wozzek. Sony, 1997.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Lulu." (1935). Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Schirmer. Lulu. Chandos, 1997.

Buy at Amazon Webern, Anton. "Slow Movement for String Quartet" (1905), "Six Bagatelles for String Quartet." (1913), "Piano Variations" (1936). Various performers. Complete Webern. Deutsche Grammophon, 2000.
3 Buy at Amazon Stravinsky, Igor. "The Rite of Spring."(1913). Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ozawa. The Rite of Spring. RCA, 1999.

Buy at Amazon ———. "The Rake's Progress." (1951). Dawn Upshaw et al., Lyon Opera Orchestra. The Rake's Progress. Erato, 1996.

Buy at Amazon Ravel, Maurice. "Le tombeau de Couperin." (1917). Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa. Ravel: Orchestral Works. Deutsche Grammophon, 1995.

Buy at Amazon Bartók, Béla. "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta." (1936). Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez. The Miraculous Mandarin; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Deutsche Grammophon, 1996.

Buy at Amazon Messiaen, Olivier. "Quartet for the End of Time." (1940). Richard Stolzman et al. Quartet for the End of Time. RCA, 1985.

Buy at Amazon Varèse, Edgard. "Hyperprism." (1923). Asko Ensemble, Ricardo Chailly. Varèse - The Complete Works. Decca, 1998.
4 Buy at Amazon Boulez, Pierre. "Structures I." (1952). Alfons Kontarsky, Aloys Kontarsky. Structures pour deux pianos. Wergo, 1993.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Le marteau sans maître." (1954). Ensemble InterContemporain. Boulez Conducts Boulez. Deutsche Grammophon, 2005.

Stockhausen, Karlheinz. "Gesang der Jünglinge." (1956). Stockhausen-Verlag CD 3.

———. "Zyklus." (1959). Stockhausen-Verlag CD 6.

Buy at Amazon Varèse, Edgard. "Poème électronique." (1958). Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ricardo Chailly. Varèse - The Complete Works. Decca, 1998.

Buy at Amazon Xenakis, Iannis. "Metastasis." (1954). Ensemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Paris. Xenakis: Metastasis; Pithoprakta; Eonta. Le Chant du Monde, 1993.
Unit One: Order and Entropy
5 Buy at Amazon Boulez, Pierre. "Pli selon Pli." (1957-62). Ensemble Intercontemporain. Pli selon Pli. Deutsche Grammophon, 2002.

- Required: I. Don (du poème); III. Improv. sur Mallarmé II.
- Optional: II. Improv. sur Mallarmé I; IV. Improv. sur Mallarmé III; V. Tombeau.

Buy at Amazon Shapey, Ralph. "Incantations." (1961). London Sinfonietta. Covenant; Incantations. Composers Recordings, 1995.

Buy at Amazon Nono, Luigi. "Canti di vita e d'amore." (1962). Canti di vita e d'amor - Per Bastiana - Omaggio a Vedova. Wergo, 1995.

Buy at Amazon Stravinsky, Igor. "Requiem canticles." (1965-66). Craft, Orchestra of St. Luke's. Igor Stravinsky: The Composer, Volume One. Music Masters, 1991.
6 Buy at Amazon Martino, Donald. "Notturno." (1973). Speculum Musicae. Notturno: Music by Donald Martino. Albany Records, 1995.

Buy at Amazon Carter, Elliott. "A mirror on which to dwell." (1975). Speculum Musicae, Schadeberg. The Music of Elliott Carter, Vol. 1: Vocal Works. Bridge, 1993.

Buy at Amazon Xenakis, Iannis. "Pléiades." (1979). Les Percussions de Strasbourg. Pleiades. Harmonia Mundi, 1996.

Buy at Amazon Wuorinen, Charles. "Capriccio." (1981). Alan Fienberg. Wuorinen: Third Piano Sonata; Bagatelle; Capriccio / Feldman: Palais De Mari. Koch, 1996.
7 Stockhausen, Karlheinz. Selections from "Saturday from Light." (1981-83). Saturday from Light. Stockhausen-Verlag CD 34.
- Greeting
- Lucifer's Farewell: Exit

Buy at Amazon Ferneyhough, Brian. "Intermedio alla ciccona." (1986). Ferneyhough: La Chute d'Icare et al. Etcetera, 2000.

Buy at Amazon Boulez, Pierre. "Sur incises." (1996-98). Ensemble Intercontemorain. Sur Incises/Messagesquisse/Anthèms 2. Deutsche Grammophon, 2000.
Unit Two: Mavericks
8 Buy at Amazon Penderecki, Krzysztov. "Threnody." (1960). Katowice Polish Radio Orchestra & Chorus. Matrix 5. EMI Classics, 1994.

Buy at Amazon Ligeti, György. "Atmosphères." (1961). Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Ligeti Project II. Teldec, 2002.

Buy at Amazon Lutoslawski, Witold. "Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux." (1963). Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Krakow Radio Chorus. Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works; Songs; String Quartet. EMI Classics, 2004.

Buy at Amazon Partch, Harry. "And on the seventh day petals fell on Petaluma." (1964). Gate 5 Ensemble of the World. Danlee Mitchell. The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2. New World Records, 2004.

Buy at Amazon Husa, Karel. "Music for Prague." (1968). Eastman Wind Ensemble. Mark Kellogg, William Williams, et al. Eastman Wind Ensemble Plays Husa, Copland, Vaughan Williams, Hindemith. Sony, 1989.

Buy at Amazon Scelsi, Giacinto. "Khoom." (1962). Frank Lloyd, Arditti String Quartet, and Maurizio Ben Omar. Giacinto Scelsi: 5 String Quartets; String Trio; Khoom. Naive, 2002.

- Required: Episodes 1, 2, 5, and 7.
- Optional: Episodes 3, 4, and 6.
9 Buy at Amazon Crumb, George. "Ancient voices of children." (1970). Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Ancient Voices of Children. Nonesuch, 1990.

Buy at Amazon Kurtág, György. "Messages of the late Miss R. V. Troussova." (1980). InterContemporain Ensemble. Adrienne Csengery and Martha Fabian. Pierre Boulez: Schoenberg, Berio, Carter, Kurtág, Xenakis. Elektra/Wea, 1995.

Buy at Amazon Birtwistle, Harrison. "Secret theatre." (1984). London Sinfonietta. Birtwistle: Secret Theatre; Silbury Air. Etcetera, 1994.
10 Buy at Amazon Nancarrow, Conlon. "Studies for Player Piano: Studies no. 5, 15, 21, 27, 33, 36, 40A, 40B." Studies for Player Piano. Wergo, 2000.

Buy at Amazon Ligeti, György. "Etudes for piano solo, Book 1." (1985). Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano. Sony, 1997.
1. Désordre
2. Cordes à vide
3. Touches bloquées
6. Automne à Varsovie
"Etudes for piano solo, Book 2." (1988-94)
10. Der Zauberlehrling
11. En suspens

Buy at Amazon Dutilleux, Henri. "Mystère de l'instant." (1989). BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Edward Cervenka. Dutilleux: Metaboles; Concerto for Cello. Chandos, 1997.

Birtwistle, Harrison. "Harrison's clocks." (1997-98).

- Required: I, III, and IV.
- Optional: II and V.
Unit Three: New Sounds, New Technologies
11 Buy at Amazon Davidovsky, Mario. "Synchronisms no. 3 for cello and tape." (1965). Matt Haimovitz. The 20th Century Cello. Deutsche Grammophon, 2005.

Buy at Amazon Davidovsky, Mario. "Synchronisms no. 6 for piano and tape." (1970). Aleck Karis, et al. The Music of Mario Davidovsky, Vol. 3. Bridge, 2005.

Buy at Amazon Berio, Luciano. "Sequenza III." (1965-66). Cathy Berberian. Berio: Circles; Sequenzas 1, 3 & 5. Wergo, 1993.

Buy at Amazon Babbitt, Milton. "Phonemena." (1969-70; tape version 1975). Lynne Webber, and Jerry Kuderna. Milton Babbitt: Philomel. New World Records, 1995.

Background Selections, Not on Quiz

Stockhausen, Karlheinz. "Gesang der Jünglinge." (1956). Etude: Studie I and II, Gesang der Jünglinge, Kontakte. Stockhausen-Verlag CD 3.

Buy at Amazon Cage, John. "Aria." (1958). Leipzig String Quartet and the Avantgarde Ensemble. Salome Kammer. Cage: Music for Eight. MP&G Records, 1996.

Buy at Amazon Varèse, Edgard. "Poème électronique." (1958). Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Varèse - The Complete Works. Decca, 1998.
12 Buy at Amazon Lansky, Paul. "Six fantasies on a poem by Thomas Campion." (1978-79). Fantasies and Tableaux. Composers Recordings, 1995.

Buy at Amazon Boulez, Pierre. "Répons." (1981-84). Sections 1, 2, 5, and 6. InterContemporain Ensemble. Frederique Cambreling, Florent Boffard, Dimitri Vassilakis, Vincent Bauer, Michel Cerutti, and Daniel Ciampolini. Pierre Boulez: Répons. Deutsche Grammophon, 1999.

Buy at Amazon Benjamin, George. Antara (1985-87) London Sinfonietta. Richard Blake, Sebastian Bell, Ishiro Nodaira, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. A Mind of Winter. Nimbus Records, 2000.

Davidovsky, Mario. "Synchronisms no. 9." (1988). (RM)
13 Buy at Amazon Saariaho, Kaija. "Noa noa." (1992). Camilla Hoitenga. Saariaho: Private Gardens. Ondine, 1998.

Buy at Amazon Harvey, Jonathan. "Song offerings." (1985). London Sinfonietta. Penelope Walmsley-Clark. Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings; Madonna of Winter and Spring. Nimbus Records, 2000.

Buy at Amazon Murail, Tristan. "Allégories." (1989). Ensemble Fa. Dominique Vidal, Nicolas Piguet, Patrice Bocquillon, Francoise Pillie, Patrice Petitdidier, Veronique Marin, and Bruno Lhuissier. Tristan Murail: Allegories; Vues aeriennes; Territoires de l'oubli. Accord, 1995.

Buy at Amazon La Barbara, Joan. "Shamansong." (1992). Erika Duke Kirkpatrick, and Joan La Barbara. Shamansong. New World Records, 1998.

Buy at Amazon Oswald, John. "Ace Sob Unit: Pocket." (1987). "Dally Proton: Pretender." (1988). "Randall Hero: Rainbow." (1989). "Sushi Dart Scar: X24." (1993). "Data Gel Freud: Fold." (1995). Plunderphonics. Plunderphonics 69/96. Seeland Records, 2001.

Reference:Buy at Amazon Twin, Aphex, (Richard D. James). "Cock/Ver10." (2001). Drukgs. Sire/London/Rhino, 2001.

Buy at Amazon ———, arr. Stefan Freund. "Cock/Ver10." (2005). Alarm Will Sound. Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin. Cantaloupe, 2005.

Reference:Buy at Amazon ——— (Richard D. James). "Meltphace 6." (2001). Drukgs. Sire/London/Rhino, 2001.

Buy at Amazon ———, arr. Payton MacDonald. "Meltphace 6." (2005). Alarm Will Sound. Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin. Cantaloupe, 2005.
Unit Four: Quotation and Polystyle
14 Stockhausen, Karlheinz. "Hymnen." (1966-67). Region II. Aloys Kontarsky, Alfred Alings, Rolf Gehlhaar, Johannes G. Fritsch, Harald Bojé, and K. Stockhausen. Hymnen. Stockhausen-Verlag CD 10.

Buy at Amazon Berio, Luciano. "Sinfonia." (1968-69). Orchestre National de France, Swingle Singers, and Regis Pasquier. Berio: Sinfonia; Eindrücke. Erato, 1992.

Buy at Amazon Davies, Peter Maxwell. "Eight songs for a mad king." (1969). Julius Eastman, Alan Hacker, Jennifer Ward Clarke, Fires of London, Stephen Pruslin, Duncan Druce, and Judith Pearce. Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King for male voice & chamber; Miss Donnithorne's Maggot. Unicorn, 1993.
15 Buy at Amazon The Beatles. "Lucy in the sky with diamonds," "Fixing a hole," "She's leaving home," "Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite," "A day in the life." (1967). Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Capitol, 1990.

Buy at Amazon Bernstein, Leonard. "Mass." (1971). Alan Titus, Norman Scribner Choir, and Berkshire Boy Choir. Mass. Sony, 1997.
I. Devotions before Mass
IV. Confession
V. Meditation no. 1
XIV. Sanctus
XV. Agnus Dei

Buy at Amazon Gruber, H. K. "Frankenstein!!" (1971-78). London Mob Ensemble and Salzburg Camerata Academica. H. K. Gruber. HK Gruber: Frankenstein!!. Angel Records, 1998.

Buy at Amazon Bolcom, William. "Songs of experience." (1981-84). University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra. Christine Brewer, Ilana Davidson, et al. William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Naxos, 2004.
Part III:
The Clod And The Pebble
The Little Vagabond
Holy Thursday
A Poisin Tree
The Angel
The Sick Rose
To Tirzah
16 Buy at Amazon Schnittke, Alfred. "String quartet no. 3." (1983). Kronos Quartet. Schnittke: Complete String Quartets. Nonesuch, 1998.

Buy at Amazon Harbison, John. "November 19, 1828: Hallucination in Four Episodes for piano and string trio." (1988). Atlanta Chamber Players. Conversations: A 20th Anniversary Salute To American Composers. ACA Digital, 1996.

Buy at Amazon Zorn, John. "Cat-o'-nine-tails." (1988). Cartoon S&M. Tzadik, 1999.

Buy at Amazon Golijov, Osvaldo. "Ayre." (2004). The Andalucian Dogs. Dawn Upshaw. Golijov: Ayre. Deutsche Grammophon, 2005.
Unit Five: The Minimalist Impulse
17 Buy at Amazon Riley, Terry. "In C." (1964). In C: 25th Anniversary Concert. New Albion, 1995.

Buy at Amazon Reich, Steve. "Music for 18 Musicians." (1976). Pulses, Sections 1-IV Jeanne LeBlanc, Evan Ziporyn, et al. Music for 18 Musicians. Nonesuch, 1998.

Buy at Amazon Glass, Philip. "Einstein on the beach." (1976). Richard Peck, Milton Glaser, Jon Gibson, Iris Hiskey, and Richard Landry. Einstein on the Beach. Sony, 1990.
Act IV, Scene 1: Building, Train
Act IV, Scene 2: Bed
Act IV, Scene 3: Spaceship Philip Glass Ensemble.

Buy at Amazon Adams, John. "Shaker loops." (1978). Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. John Adams: Shaker Loops; The Wound-Dresser; Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Naxos, 2004.

Buy at Amazon King Crimson. "Frame by frame," "Discipline." Discipline. Caroline, 2001.

Buy at Amazon Anderson, Laurie. "From the air," "O Superman (for Massenet)." (1981). Big Science. Warner Bros / WEA, 1982.
18 Buy at Amazon Górecki, Henryk. "Symphony no. 3." (1976). London Sinfonietta. Dawn Upshaw. Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs". Nonesuch, 1992
I. Lento - Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile.

Buy at Amazon Andriessen, Louis. "De Staat." (1973-76). Arnold Schoenberg Choir. De Staat. Nonesuch, 1992.

Buy at Amazon Pärt, Arvo. "Berlin Mass." (1990). Christopher Bowers-Broadbent. I Am The True Vine: Arvo Part. Harmonia Mundi, 2000.

Buy at Amazon Adams, John. "Nixon in China." (1985-87). St Luke's Chorus, St Luke's Orchestra. Sanford Sylvan, James Maddalena, et al. Nixon in China. Nonesuch, 1999.
Act I, Scene 1: "Landing of the Spirit of '76," "Your flight was smooth, I hope?," and "News has a kind of mystery."
Act III: "You won at poker," and "I am old and cannot sleep."
19 Buy at Amazon Monk, Meredith. "Atlas." (1987-91). Atlas. ECM, 2000.

Buy at Amazon Torke, Michael. "Adjustable wrench." (1987). London Sinfonietta. Javelin: The Music of Michael Torke. Polygram Records, 1996.

Buy at Amazon Ruehr, Elena. "Shimmer." (1994). Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra. Metamorphosen Performs Chamber Orchestral Works. Albany Records, 1996.

Buy at Amazon Wolfe, Julia. "Lick." (1994). Classics. Cantaloupe, 2002.

Buy at Amazon Ziporyn, Evan. "Partial truths." (1997). This is not a Clarinet. Cantaloupe, 2001.

Buy at Amazon Adams, John. "On the transmigration of souls." (2002). New York Philharmonic. Sam Adams, Philip Smith, Deborah L. O'Grady, Morgan Staples, Ditsa Pines, Preben Antonson, and Emily Adam. On the Transmigration of Souls. Nonesuch, 2004.

Buy at Amazon Robison, Brian. "The Congress of the Insomniacs." (2003). MIT Wind Ensemble. Waking Winds. Innova Records, 2004.
Unit Six: The Persistence of Tonality
20 Buy at Amazon Shostakovich, Dmitry. "String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110." Manhattan String Quartet. Judith Glyde. Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, 8. Essay, 1994.

Buy at Amazon Britten, Benjamin. "War requiem." (1961). II. Dies irae London Symphony Orchestra and Melos Ensemble of London. Simon Preston, Peter Pears, Galina Vishnievskaya, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Britten - War Requiem. Decca, 1990.

Buy at Amazon Rochberg, George. "String quartet no. 3." (1972). Part C: IV. March; V. Finale Concord String Quartet. Rochberg: String Quartets Nos. 3-6. New World Records, 1999.

Buy at Amazon Tower, Joan. "Petroushskates." (1980). The Composer-Performer. Anthology of Recorded Music, 2010.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Fanfare for the uncommon woman no. 1." (1986). "Fanfare for the uncommon woman no. 4." (1992). Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Tower: Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman. Koch Int'l Classics, 1999.

Del Tredici, David. "Final Alice." (1976). Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Sir Georg Solti, and Barbara Hendricks. Final Alice. 33 rpm LP. London, 1981.
21 Buy at Amazon Harbison, John. "Mirabai songs." (1982). Orchestra of St. Luke's. Dawn Upshaw. Knoxville Summer. Nonesuch, 1990.

Buy at Amazon Albert, Steven. "Symphony: RiverRun." (1983). 20th Century Consort. Lucy Shelton. Albert: Symphony RiverRun/To Wake the Dead. Delos Records, 1992.
III. Beside the rivering water
IV. RiversEnd

Buy at Amazon Piazzolla, Astor. "Hora cero [Zero hour]." (1965). Sexteto European. The Lausanne Concert. Milan Records, 2006.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Sex-tet." (1989). Sexteto European. The Lausanne Concert. Milan Records, 2006.

Buy at Amazon Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe. "Quintet for clarinet and string quartet." (1990). Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, Ida Kavafian, Fred Sherry, and Paul Neubauer. Five American Clarinet Quintets. Delos Records, 1998.

Buy at Amazon Corigliano, John. Symphony no. 1. (1990). Stephen Hough, and John Sharp. John Corigliano: Symphony No. 1. Erato, 1991.
I. Apologue: Of rage and remembrance Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
22 Buy at Amazon Larsen, Libby. "Marimba concerto." (1992). Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Marin Alsop. Larsen: Solo Symphony; Marimba Concerto: After Hampton. Koch Int'l Classics, 2001.

Buy at Amazon Kernis, Aaron Jay. "Still movement with hymn." (1993). San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Carter Brey, Christopher O'Riley, Paul Neubauer, and Pamela Frank. Aaron Jay Kernis: Colored Field/Still Movement With Hymn. Decca, 1996.

Buy at Amazon Tan, Dun. "Ghost opera." (1994). Kronos Quartet. Donald Hamilton, Wu Man. Ghost Opera. Nonesuch, 1997.

Buy at Amazon Higdon, Jennifer. "running the edgE." (1996). Lesbian American Composers. Composers Recordings, 1998.

Buy at Amazon Child, Peter. "Fantasia." (2003) Mark Kroll. The Contemporary Harpsichord. Albany Records, 2004. A longer 2 minute sample is also available at Peter Child's Compositions page.

Shadle, Charles. "The penny ballad of Elvious Ricks." (2005). No recording available.
Unit Seven: Agora
23-26

Buy at Amazon Klein, Guillermo. "Con Brasil adentro - Fuga X," and "La última." Los Guachos III. Sunny Side, 2002.

———. "Intercambio moral." Live in Barcelona. FS New Talent, 2005.