Reading Assignments

There are going to be some reading assignments for this class. They are not graded but are useful for understanding concepts and works discussed in class.
Since access to the library is not available, some links are to Wikipedia pages (not the most "scholarly" source but they deliver useful information nevertheless).

• Reading 1: The tonal system as a hierarchy, due 8/26
• Reading 2: Impressionism and Expressionism, due 9/9
  • Impressionism
    • Impressionism in music
  • Expressionism
• Reading 3: Neoclassicism in music, due 9/23
  • Formalism
• Reading 4: Boulez - "Schoenberg Is Dead" and "Incipit", due 10/19
• Reading 5: Structuralism, due 10/28
• Reading 6: Existentialism, due 11/2

Honors

• Reading A: Stockhausen - "...how time passes...", due 10/30
• Reading B: Herbert Brün - "From Musical Ideas to Computers and Back", due 12/2

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