Music 344—Encounter 8 Name:

Readings

John Cage Interview

All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis

Listening Report

Suggested Recordings

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Due Date: Friday, May 10, 2002

Readings—

K Marie Stolba, The Development of Western Music

Chapter 27: Music Since 1945, pp. 623-660

Musical Quarterly, Vol. LXXII, no. 2, 1986, pp. 216-227 (Library Periodical)

"John Cage and Richard Kostelanetz: A Conversation about Radio"

Morton Subotnick, Voyager CD Companion—All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis (IH202 Reserve)
Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz booklet (IH202 Reserve or CSTC Reserve)

“Jazz Music: A Brief History”

“`Free Jazz’—The `New Thing’”

"The Recordings"—notes on all SCCJ recordings from the Jazz & Rock List

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John Cage—A Conversation about Radio

Write a one-page report that answers the questions on Musical Quarterly and on Cage posed in the bullets below.

Musical Quarterly is a leading musicological journal. Search the periodical collection at Buehler Library to find Vol. LXXII (1986); it contains all four issues of Vol. LXXII bound in a single volume. Browse through the table of contents for each issue. Not surprisingly, it contains scholarly articles about all eras of music history.

Are there any articles you are surprised to see here? Comment.

Read the article on pp. 216-227 of issue no. 2: “John Cage and Richard Kostelanetz: A Conversation about Radio.” As you read, bear in mind that Cage is talking in the 1980s about works he created in the 1940s and 1950s.

What do you find most interesting in this article?
What is your reaction to Cage?

Finally, enter the Blackboard site for this course, click on Discussion, and find the Encounter 8 question. Once there, answer these questions—

Do Cage’s ideas fit within the definition of music? Why or why not?
Write a definition of music that includes Cage’s ideas?
What musical styles (classical or popular) of the past 40 years have used ideas or techniques Cage describes in this interview?

Respond to at least one other student’s reply to these questions.

If you are already in Blackboard, click here to go to the Discussion board.
If you are not in Blackboard, click here to enter Blackboard.

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Subotnick, All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis

Explore Subotnick’s Voyager CD Companion—All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis. (Click here for step-by-step instructions on using this CD-ROM.) Browse through the CD Companion and use the information you find to write a brief report that answers these questions:

How does Subotnick facilitate real-time interaction between live performers, computer, & MIDI instruments?
What inspired Subotnick to write this work?
What is he trying to express?

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Listening Report 8

Music of the 1950s, 1960s, and Beyond (3 hours)

For the listening portion of the final exam, I will play excerpts from the listening list below. For each work I play, you must:

Identify the work by title, composer, section, and style
List important features of:

the style
the composer’s music
the piece itself

To prepare, listen to each work on the list and identify characteristics of the style, composer, and piece in your listening report. If you choose to listen to a work more than once, count the extra playings as extra credit listening.

DOCUMENT ALL OF YOUR LISTENING ACCORDING TO GUIDELINES IN THE SYLLABUS!

20th Century III: Music of the 1950s—A Decade in Ferment

Classical & Avant garde List

*Serialism*
Messiaen, Méditations, No. VII	DWMA 185	C1
Boulez, Le marteau sans maître:iii “l’artisanat furieux”	DWMA 186 IH202—CD1/8	C2
Babbitt, Phonemena (version 2 for soprano & tape)	IH202 Reserve	C3
*John Cage: Percussion Movement & Chance Music*
Varèse, Ionisation	IH202—LP 143/8 CSTC—M12 V296	C4
Cage, Williams Mix	IH202—LP 142/8-10	C5
*Early Electronic Music*
Mimaroglu, Bowery Bum	IH202—LP 58/5	C6
Stockhausen, Gesang der Jünglinge	IH202—LP 65/1 CSTC—M12 S864g	C7
*Sound Mass*
Ligeti, Éjszaka	DWMA 189	C8
Penderecki, Threnody *	IH202—LP 110/1 CSTC—M12 N352s	C9

Jazz & Rock List

*Cool Jazz*
J1	Miles Davis, “Boplicity”	SCCJ
J2	Miles Davis, “Summertime”	SCCJ
*Hard Bop*
J3	Charles Mingus, “Hora Decubitus”	SCCJ LP Side 10
*1950’s Rock’n’roll*
J4	Willa Mae Thornton, “Hound Dog”	CSTC—M12 R682 IH202 Reserve
J5	Chuck Berry, “Maybellene”	CSTC—M12 R682 IH202 Reserve
J6	Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti”	CSTC—M12 R682 IH202 Reserve
J7	Elvis Presley, “That’s All Right”	CSTC—M12 R682 IH202 Reserve

20th Century IV: Music of the 1960s and Beyond

*The 60s Avant Garde*
Berio, Sinfonia, mvmt. ii	IH202—CD1/6	C10
Berio, Sinfonia, mvmt. iii	IH202—CD1/6	C11
Crumb, Apparitions: I “The night in silence under many a star . . .”	DWMA 188	C12
Riley, In C (the first five minutes—score in Burkhart)	IH202—LP 144/4	C13

*60s Jazz*
J8	Miles Davis, “So What” *	SCCJ
J9	Ornette Coleman, “Free Jazz”	SCCJ
J10	John Coltrane, “Alabama” *	SCCJ

*Moog Synthesis*
Subotnick, Silver Apples of the Moon: Part II *		IH202—CD4/33	C14

*60s Rock*
J11	Beatles, “Can’t Buy Me Love”	IH202 Reserve CSTC—MCD B3691962/66
J12	Beatles, “A Day in the Life” *	IH202 Reserve CSTC—MCD B3691967/70
J13	Beatles, “Here Comes the Sun”	IH202 Reserve CSTC—MCD B3691967/70

*Minimalism*
Reich, Tehillim: Part IV *	DWMA 190 CSTC—MCD R347T	C15
Reich, The Cave: “Who Is Ibrahim?”	IH202—CD4/31-32 CD2, track 1	C16
Reich, The Cave: “The Binding of Isaac”	IH202—CD4/31-32 CD2, track 10	C17

*Jazz Fusion*
J14	Miles Davis, Bitches Brew: “Bitches Brew”	IH202—CD3/5-6
J15	Weather Report, Heavy Weather: “Birdland”	CSTC—M12 W362H

*Digital Synthesis & the MIDI Revolution*
Haynes, Prisms	CSTC—M12 C738	C18
Subotnick, All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis *	Voyager CD Companion— All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis	C19

SCCJ = Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz IH202—LP 126/4-9; CSTC—MCD S661C
* drop-the-laser beam

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Suggested Recordings—

IH202 CDs

CD1/6—Berio, Sinfonia & Eindrücke (Boulez)
CD1/8—Boulez, Le marteau sans maître, Notations, Structures (Boulez)
CD3/5-6—Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
CD4/16—Adams, Harmonielehre, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, etc. (Rattle)
CD4/24—Cage, In a Landscape (prepared piano music)
CD4/29—Crumb, Black Angels & Lutoslawski, String Quartet (Cikada Quartet)
CD4/30—Lutoslawski, Concerto for Orchestra, Jeux vénitiens, Livre pour orchestre, Mi-parti
CD4/31-32—Reich, The Cave (Hillier)
CD4/33—Early Modulation/Vintage Volts (electronic music by Luening, Ussachevsky, Mathews, Schaeffer, Xenakis, Cage, Subotnick, etc.)

CSTC CDs

MCD B112P—Babbitt, Piano Music (Taub)
MCD R347T—Reich, Tehillim
MCD S661C—Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz
MCD B369 1962/66—The Beatles: 1962-1966
MCD B369 1967/70—The Beatles: 1967-1970

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Created 3/14/01 by Mark Harbold—last updated 4/16/02