UNIT 1:
Music of Yesterday and Today
class meetings 2/1, 2/6 - Listening Response 1
due 2/13
In class, we have watched a video on the role of Composition and
Improvisation in making music and have discussed various types of
music making going on now. In your listening this week, you are
to explore the world of your own music and its most immediate roots.
Your listening for this week should be a mixture of what you typically
listen to and selctions from this material.
I could not presume to characterize your music of today. I have
her provided listening resources of yesterday's popular music. I
include no more recent recordings here--you wil have plenty of access
to that music in your own collections or on the Internet.
THE FIRST 25 YEARS OF ROCK MUSIC
COMPILATIONS
PHONO 10636 Rock Music: Opus Musicum (excellent compilation
of first 15 years)
CD 1380, 1-5 Supernatural fairy tales: the progressive rock era
(a huge collection)
CD 991-995 In yo' face! 5 volume history of funk
50's ROCK
PHONO 10077 Double Portrait: Bill Haley and Buddy Holly
PHONO 10023 The Great 28 (Chuck Berry)
CD 554 Little Richard: Rip it up
PHONO 636-38 Elvis' Golden Records
PHONO 9147 Elvis: The Sun Sessions
PHONO 11355 Jerry Lee Lewis: Original Golden Hits
PHONO 6299 Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers
PHONO 11331 Young Blood (Coasters)
PHONO 11724 The Early Years (1958-61) (Produced by Phil Spector)
PHONO 7132 Surfin' Safari (Beach Boys)
60's ROCK
PHONO 6794 Meet the Beatles (first album)
PHONO 6224 Beatles 1962-65
PHONO 4384 Revolver (Beatles)
PHONO 2068 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles)
PHONO 4383 Rubber Soul (Beatles)
CD 1766 Let It Be (Beatles)
CD 1767 Abbey Road (Beatles)
PHONO 6389 The Rolling Stones (first album)
PHONO 7076 Rolling Stones Early Hits volume 1
PHONO 4653 Beggars Banquet (Rolling Stones)
PHONO 4652 Let It Bleed (Rolling Stones)
PHONO 7078 Their Satanic Masters Request
PHONO 1364 Bringing it All Back Home (first Dylan rock album)
PHONO 3374 John Wesley Harding (first Dylan country-rock album)
PHONO 4348 Sounds of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel - folk/rock)
PHONO 5130 Songs of Leonard Cohen (folk/rock)
PHONO 1091 Diana Ross and the Supremes (Motown)
PHONO 11813 The Jackson 5 (Motown)
PHONO 10932 Moods of Marvin Gaye (Motown)
PHONO 7001 Gladys Knight and the Pips Greates Hits (Motown)
PHONO 9802 The Temptations's Anthology 10th anniversary special
(Motown)
PHONO 9797 Four Tops Anthology (Motown)
PHONO 6438 What love has joined together (Smokey Robinson and
the Miracles (Motown)
PHONO 6309 Where I'm Coming From (Steview Wonder (Motown)
PHONO 6095 "We're Only In It for the Money" (Frank Zappa and
the Mothers of Invention)
PHONO 6096 Mothermania the best of the Mothers (Frank Zappa)
PHONO 6044 The Worst of the Mothers (Frank Zappa)
PHONO 5131 The Byrds Greatest Hits
CD 1226 Creedence Clearwater Revival
PHONO 6435 Blood, Sweat and Tears (jazz rock)
PHONO 7200 The Incredible String Band (Indian influences)
70's ROCK
CD 1267 Talkin' Blues: Bob Marley and the Wailers (reggae)
PHONO 10078 The Sex Pistols (punk)
PHONO 7121 Steppenwolf Gold (toward hevay metal)
PHONO 7115 Apocolypse (Mahavishnu orchestra, John McLaughin)
PHONO 8152 Tyranny and Mutation (Blue Oyster Cult) (heavey metal)
PHONO 10220 A Night At Studio 54 (1979) (disco)\
PHONO 9153 Trick Bag (the Meters) (disco)
CD 1540 Dig Your Own Hole (contemporary disco)
CD 1267 Talkin' Blues: Bob Marley and the Wailers (reggae)
CD 1202 D C Jazzy Jeff. He's the DJ I'm the Rapper (hip hop)
CD 1506 Entroducing--D. J. Shadow (rap)
CD 1540 Dig Your Own Hole (contemporary disco)
VIDEO
*VHS 143 Rock and roll the early days
*VHS 2212 Rock and Roll (5 parts--from origins to early 1990's)
VHS 141 That was rock: video of two 1965 shows that featured
major artists and groups of the first 15 years
VHS 2538 Woodstock 3 days of Peace and Music: the director's
cut (2 parts)
VHS 3290 Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones, Altamont)
VHS 1077 Tommy: the movie
VHS 41 Girl Groups: the story of a sound
VHS 162 The Complete Beatles - a "rockumentary"
VHS 177 Dead Ahead (Grateful Dead concert filmed live 1980)
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UNIT 2:
Music of Indonesia: Another World
class meetings 2/8, 2/13 - Listening Response
2 due 2/27
Recordings:
CD1586 Gamelan Music of Bali
CD 1595 Kecak: men's chorus in imitation of Gamelan
CD 1681 Balinese Gamelan
CD 1944 Balinese Gamelan
CD 1596 Bamboo Gamelan Music (Bali)
CD 1786 Music of Lou Harrison (US composer--but using gamelan)
PHONO 9731-33 Javanese Court Gamelan
PHONO 4460 The Jasmine Isle
PHONO 4459 Golden Rain
PHONO 6127 Gamelan Semar Pegulanga
PHONO 3765 Music from the Morning of the World
Videos:
VHS 609 Bali: Mask of Rangda
VHS 957 parts 4 & 5 Music and Dance of Bali and Java
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UNIT 3: European Concert
Hall
class meetings 2/15, 2/20 - Listening Response
3 due 3/6
RECORDINGS
ORCHESTRA
CD 139 Schubert Unfinished Symphony
PHONO 392 Berlioz Symphony Fantastique
CD 391 Mendelssohn Orchestral Music (Italian Symphony)
CD 32 Schumann Symphony #3
CD 581 Liszt Les Preludes
CD 160 Brahms Symphony #1
CD 44 Brahms Symphony #3
CD 102 Bruckner Symphony #8
CD 1106 Mahler Symphony #2
CD 21 Mahler Symphony #6
CD 19 Mahler Symphony #9
CD 586 Tchaikovsky Symphony #6
CD 587 Strauss Three Tone Poems
CD 253 Strauss A Heroe's Life
CONCERTOS
CD 578 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
CD 32 Schumann Piano Concerto
CD 1592 Liszt Piano Concertos
CD 1594 Grieg Piano Concerto
CD 516 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
PHONO 9546 Brahms Piano Concerto #1
PIANO
CD 257 Chopin Ballades
CD 590 Liszt Transcendental Etudes
SONGS
CD 36 Schubert Lieder
OPERAS (all videos)
VHS 371 Verdi Aida
Wagner RING OF THE NIEBULUNGEN
VHS 1457 The Rheingold
VHS 1460 Siegfried
VHS 1458 The Valkyre
VHS 1459 The Twilight of the Gods
VIDEOS
VHS 3153 part 6 Schubert: the Young Romantic
VHS 3150 part 4 Liszt at Weimar
VHS 3154 part 1 Vienna: The Waltz City
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UNIT 4: US Roots Music: Anglo-American,
Afro-American
class meetings 2/22, 2/24 - Listening Response 4 due 3/13
IMPORTANT NOTE: CASS (cassette) call numbers have a phono number
following them. The PHONO numbers are for New World Long playing
records, which include extensive documentation; the cassettes are
library-made copies, without any documentation. Gradually, the entire
collection of over 200 records is being reissued on CD's; but there
are many valuable recordings not yet reissued. If you see a CASS
number followed by a PHONO number, be sure you ask for both the
cassette and the record, so you can read the documentation on the
recordings. That documentation will be very valuable for writing
your Listening Response.
RECORDINGS
CD 2040 Vol 1, 2, 3 (Vol 4 also good) American Root
Music Listen to one of these
PHONO 1091, 1092, 1093 Try to listen to at least one album of
this one. This is the collection that was most important to folk
musicians in the 1950's.
CASS 2621/PHONO 13009 Vocal Styles and Resoures in Folk Music
CD1147 Roots of the Blues
CASS 2642/ PHONO 13012 That's My Rabbit; My Dog Caught It .
CASS 2588/ PHONO 13025 New England Traditions in Folk Music
CASS 2570/ PHONO 13031 Folk Song Types .
CASS 2621/ PHONO 13009 I'm On My Journey Home
CASS 2585/ PHONO 13022 Southern Folk Vocal & Instrumental
Styles
CD1141 Georgia Sea Island Songs
CASS 2643/PHONO 13074Ý Rural & Urban Children's Songs
CD 1180 White Spirituals from the Sacred Harp
CD 1179 The Gospel Ship
PHONO 11275-11276 Stephen Foster Songs
VIDEOS:
DVD 187 Parts 1, 2 & 3 (4 is good too...) - American
Roots Music BEST CHOICE
VHS 1416 Discovering American Folk Music
VHS 2789 parts 1 & 2 History of the Blues
VHS 1620 The Land Where Blues Began
VHS 1415 Discovering Country and Western Music
VHS 2843 Early and Rural Popular Music 1928-35
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UNIT 5: Music of West Africa
class meetings 3/1, 3/6 - Listening Response 5
due 3/20
Recordings:
CD 1467 A musical journey through East and West Africa
CD 1469 Central Africa
CD 1111 Drums of Africa (last cut is Cuban)
PHONO 9693 The Soul of Mbira
PHONO 11119 Music of the Rain Forest
PHONO 4325 Anthology of African Music
PHONO 7981 Master Drummer of Ghana
Videos:
VHS 2559 parts 1-3 Music and Dance of Africa
VHS 1408 Discovering the Music of Africa
VHS 959 parts 2-4 Music and Dance of Africa
PRESENTATIONS 3/8, 3/13, 3/15, 3/20 - JOURNAL
I due 3/27
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UNIT 6: Jazz: America's Classical
Music?
class meetings 3/22, 3/27 - Listening Response
6 due 4/3
Ken Burns PBS Special on Jazz (DVD 18, vol. 1 - 10) is an exceptional
exploration of Jazz in Society. Each video except volume 1 is 2
hours in itself.
Older especially valuable resources are PHONO 7152--there are two
copies available--or PHONO 10076. These are also surveys, and will
give you a perspective on the evolution of jazz. Each of the CASS/PHONO
pairs are New World Record surveys of their topic, with superb documentation
provided with the PHONO; be sure to check both out--listen to the
CASSette, read the documentation on the PHONO.
RECORDINGS
OVERVIEWS
PHONO 7152 The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz
PHONO 10076 Jazz: Opus Musicum
CASS 4049 Pts. 1-3 Big Band Jazz: from the beginning to the
50's (Smithsonian)
CD 551 Pts. 1-4 Jazz Piano: a Smithsonian Collection
CASS 2558/PHONO 13059 The Style-makers of Jazz 1920's-1940's
CASS 2574/PHONO 13042 Big Bands and Territory Bands of the
1920's
CASS 2565/PHONO 13003 Big Bands and Territory Bands of the
1930's
CASS 2555/PHONO 13036 Small Jazz Groups in the 1930's
CASS 2566/PHONO 13068 Big Bands in the 1940's
CASS 2614/PHONO 13028 Small Jazz Groups of the 50's and early
60's
CASS 2567/PHONO 13002 Avant-garde and Third Stream Jazz
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS (there are many more)
PHONO 1113-16 The Louis Armstrong Story
PHONO 8802 Fletcher Henderson: 1924-1937
CD 232 The Ellington-Blanton Band
PHONO 10164 Duke Ellington (Time-Life 1978)
CD 1187 Duke Ellington Orchestra
CD 1603 Ella Fitzgerald
PHONO 1988 The Genius of Charlie Parker
CD 1516 Miles Davis Plays Ballads
CD 1434 Jimmy Rushing All Stars
CD 1421 Thelonius Monk Quartet Live at 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival
CD 1618 The Best of John Coltrane
VIDEOS
OVERVIEWS
DVD 18 (10 volumes) Ken Burns PBS Special on Jazz
VHS 462 The EAV History of Jazz with Billy Taylor (in class)
VHS 470 Jazz Piano Legends
VHS 949 Trumpet Kings with Wynton Marsalis
VHS 2555 Sousa to Satchmo: Marsalis on the Jazz Band
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
VHS 828 Celebrating Bird (Charlie Parker)
VHS 461 The Coltrane Legacy
VHS 2914 The Ladies Sing the Blues
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UNIT 7: Music of India: The
Classical Tradition
class meetings 3/29, 4/3 - Listening Response
7 due 4/19
Recordings:
CD 1505 Laxmi Tewari: Rainbow of Devotional Songs
CD 2138: Laxmi Tewari: Svaranjali
CD 1264 Laxmi Tewari: Indian Classical Vocal music
CD 2009 The Ravi Shankar Collection
CD 3320 Garden of Dreams (Ali Akbar Kahn)
PHONO 1259 Traditional and Classical Music of India
PHONO 3035 Morning and Evening Ragas
PHONO 4030 Ravi Shankar Festival From India
PHONO 5604 Predawn to Sunrise Ragas
PHONO 3366 Classical Music of India
PHONO 8470 The Music of India: North Indian Tabla Drumming
Videos:
VHS 561 Raga (Shown in class)
VHS 958 parts 1-3 Folk Music and Dance of India
VHS 4737 Indian Classical Music
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UNIT 8: European Classical
Music: It's Changing Role in Society
class meetings 4/5, 4/17, 4/19, 4/24, 4/26 - Listening
Response 8 due 5/1
Listen to five different examples: one from Medieval,
one from Renaissance, one from Bach or Handel, one from Haydn or
Mozart, and one from Beethoven.
Roots: 1000-1600
RECORDINGS
Medieval (600-1450)
CD 1358 Norton Anthology Volume I CD 1
CD 773 Perotin
CD 875 French and English Medieval Music
CD 877 Gothic Voices
CD 1358 t. 3-43 various Medieval
CD 788 Guilliame de Machaut Mass
Renaissance (1450-1600)
CD 1359 Norton Anthology: Volume 1 CD 2
CD 1360 Norton Anthology: Volume 1 CD 3
CD 905 Josquin des Prez Mass
CD 591 Palestrina Mass
CD 770 John Dowland (English songs)
CD 1154 Renaissance Recorder Music
CD 340 Medieval and Renaissance Dances
CD 100 The Glory of the Italian Madrigal (no translations)
PHONO 6636-37 Madrigals (with translations)
VIDEOS
VHS 3151 pt. 1 Rome: Out of the Darknes
Bach, Handel: early 18 century
RECORDINGS
ORCHESTRA
CD 87 Bach Brandenburg Concertos (choose 1)
PHONO 11511 Handel Water Music
CHORAL MUSIC
CD 89 Bach Bm Mass
PHONO 11539 Bach Wachet Auf cantata
CD 3 Handel Messiah
CD 929 Handel The Power of Music
KEYBOARD
CD 120 Bach Goldberg Variations
CD 247 Bach Well Tempered Clavier (piano)
PHONO 10555 Bach Well Tempered Clavier (harpsichord)
CD 296 Bach Organ music
VIDEOS
VHS 3151 part 2 Rome: the Golden Age
VHS 3151 part 3 Rome: The Age of Reason
VHS 3152 part 1 Georgian London: the Italian connection
VHS 3152 part 2 Georgian London: the voice of Britannia
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: late 18th, early
19th century
RECORDINGS
SYPHONIES(listen to one complete, sample others)
CD 32 Haydn Symphonies 88 and 92
CD 202 Haydn Symphonies 94 and 96
CD 106 Haydn Symponies 100 and 104
CD 633 Mozart Symphonies 40 and 41
PHONO 10557 Beethoven The 9 Symphonies (esp. #3, #5, #6)
CONCERTOS
CD 81 Mozart piano concerto: Cm, K. 491 or Bb K.595
CD 136 Beethoven 5 Piano Concertos
CHORAL MUSIC
CD 508 Mozart Requiem Mass
CD 241 Beethoven Missa Solemnis
CHAMBER MUSIC
CD 233 Mozart and Haydn String Quartets
CD 1667 Beethoven The Late String Quartets
VIDEOS
VHS 3152 pt. 3 Georgian London: The Musical Capital
VHS 836 pt. 1 & 2 Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (listen
to 1st act)
VHS 3150 part 3 Haydn and the Esterhazys
VHS 3152 part 2 Mozart: Dropping the Patron
VHS 3153 part 5 Beethoven: the composer as hero
UNIT 9: Modernism Europe
class meeting 5/1 - Listening Response 9 due 5/10
Listen to examples from both before and after
World War II
RECORDINGS
BEFORE WORLD WAR II
CD 249 Debussy La Mer (The Sea) & Afternoon of
a Faun
CD 144 Ravel Piano Concertos
CD 641 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
CD 580 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (ballet)
CD 339, CD 1631 Stravinsky, L'histoire du Soldat
CD 577 Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
CD 1640 Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
CD 28. CD 1631 Berg Violin Concerto
AFTER WORLD WAR II
CD 1624 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
PHONO 11916 Boulez Le Marteau sans Maitre
PHONO 11471 Stockhausen Gesang der Junglingende
CD 98 Berio Sinfonia
PHONO 3911 copy 2 Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
CD 1123 Ligeti Lux Aeterna
VIDEOS
VHS 3024 Threads: Music of the 20th Century
VHS 39 Music in Time: Today and Tomorrow
VHS 2870 Bartok, Shostakovich, Lutoslavski
VHS 2871 Post-war Music After the Wake
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UNIT 10: American Modernism;
Beyond Modernism: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
class meetings 5/3, 5/88 - Listening Response
10 due 5/17
Listen to examples from both before and after
World War II and to at least one example of minimalism.
RECORDINGS
BEFORE WORLD WAR II
CD 168 Ives Songs
PHONO 1785 Ives Orchestral Music, especially The Unanswered Question
PHONO 7263 Ives Symphony #4
CD 39 Copland Billy the Kid
CD 944 Copland's Greatest Hits
CD 1795 Barber Adagio for Strings (with other Barber pieces)
AFTER WORLD II (1945-1965)
CD 455 Harrison Concerto for Violin and Percussion
CD 1102 The Music of Harry Partch
CD 1178 Babbitt: Pilomel
CD 46 Cage: Sonatas and Interludes
PHONO 945 Cage: Aria with Fontana Mix
VIDEOS
VHS 460 Charles Ives
VHS 3026 Aaron Copland
VHS 1952 Harry Partch
VHS 1950 John Cage
CHALLENGE TO MODERNISM: MINIMALISM AND BEYOND (1965-1990)
RECORDINGS
PHONO 4885 Riley: In C
CD 393 Reich: Early Works
PHONO 9808 Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
CD 1019 Glass: Early pieces
VIDEOS
VHS 1949 Phillip Glass
VHS 3025 John Adams, Minimalism and Beyond
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