Course Description
Modern trends in music from Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Hindemith, and Bartok to the present.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will be expected to write a paper on topics of wider scope than undergraduates and will present oral reports.
Athena Title
MODERN MUSIC
Prerequisite
MUSI 3210 and MUSI 3220
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Upon completion the successful student should be able to associate aesthetic and analytical knowledge with the sound, style, genre, and performance idiom of individual works.
Topical Outline
Major units of study will include: the styles of Late Romanticism; Debussy; the New Viennese School; Stravinsky; 1920s eclecticism; the return to large forms and national styles; varieties of serialism and indeterminacy; electronic resources; the new virtuosity; the broadening of the canon; late 20th-c American music. Students will learn of the historical, national, and aesthetic contexts for 20th-c art music.
Syllabus