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MUSC109
Introduction to Experimental Music
MUSC109 FA
Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:40 EST 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 100 58 42
A survey of recent electronic and instrumental works, with
emphasis on the works of American composers. Starting with
early experimentalists John Cage and Henry Cowell, germinal
works of Earl Brown, Christian Wolff and Morton Feldman will
be studied, followed by more recent electronic and minimal
works of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, David Behrman, Gordon
Mumma, Robert Ashley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Meredith
Monk, and finishing with younger crossover composers,
including Laurie Anderson, Glenn Branca, John Zorn and
others. Lectures, demonstrations and performances,
occasionally by guest lecturers.
MAJOR READINGS
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC: CAGE AND BEYOND, Michael
Nyman, Schirmer Books
SILENCE, John Cage, Wesleyan Press
SOFTWARE FOR PEOPLE, Pauline Oliveros
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Five quizzes on specific
topics and composers. One research paper. One final exam.
Periodic listening tests.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless
preregistered students attend the first class meeting or
communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first
class, they will be dropped from the class list.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture Performance
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA MUSC
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Lucier, A
- Times: M.W.... 1:10PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1
- No Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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