Listening/Reading list

Listening to the twentieth century and beyond

(MUS 2501/4501)

 

Course leader: Tanja Orning

 

 

Listening:

 

Cathy Berberian: Stripsody (1966).

Biosphere/Deathprod: Nordheim transformed (1995).

Pierre Boulez: Pli selon pli – portrait de Mallarmé: 4th mvt.: "A la nue accablante tu" (1983)

James Brown: “The Payback” (1973), “Sex Machine” (1970), “I got the feelin'” (1968).

Deadmaus5: “Raise your weapon” (2011).

Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'une faune (1894).

Lars Petter Hagen: The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins (2011).

Gy?rgy Ligeti: Atmosphères (1961).

Helmut Lachenmann: Kontrakadenz (1970/71)

Gustav Mahler, excerpts from

Symphonies no 1, 1st movement (beginning) (1886), no 3, last mvt. (excerpt) (1898),

Das Lied von der Erde, last mvt.: "Der Abschied" (excerpt) (1908)

Arne Nordheim, The Tempest (excerpt) (1979). Evening Land (excerpt) (1957).

Pink Floyd: “Wish you were here” (1975).

Radiohead: “Paranoid Android” (1997).

Maja Ratkje: Dance Macabre (excerpt) (2009)

Reich, Steve: Music for pieces of wood (1973), Clapping Music (1972).

Salvatore Sciarrino: Lo spazio inverso (1985)

Simon Steen-Andersen: Rerendered (2003)

Franz Schubert: ”Erlk?nig”  (1815) feat. Charles Pantera, Dieter Fischer Diskau, Barbara Sukowa.

Arnold Sch?nberg: “Der kranke Mond” from Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21 (1912).

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-6).

Kraftwerk: “Mensch-Maschine” (1978).

Kurt Schwitters: Ursonata (excerpt) (1922-32).

The Beatles: “Happiness is a warm gun” (1968).

David Toop: Buried Dreams (excerpt) (1994).

Richard Wagner Lohengrin Prelude to Act I (1846-48).

Kurt Weill: “Lost in the stars” feat. Lotte Lenya, Todd Duncan, Radka Toneff

Hauk Buen (Hardanger fiddle):

http://open.spotify.com/track/57oiwyLIqUfm3T57q5bxvn

http://open.spotify.com/track/5OcfLN27gkDlwVLTqz2V3h

Per Gudmundson (fiddle):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuNogMqxNyc&feature=youtu.be

Irish:

Two versions of the reel Farewell to Ireland:

Cathal Hayden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcqGJBxxSg (first tune in set)

Frankie Gavin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBNlvkZS2mU (first tune in set)

http://open.spotify.com/track/4yc5i6cQyc78XRIYCQlF4v (from 00:35 to 01:40)

Tommie Potts:

http://open.spotify.com/track/3OByfSB5kLSRR9ZGGcuhPS

Séamus Egan (flute):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwfrbuobEw8&feature=youtu.be

 

Reading:

Books to be bought (available at Akademika): 

Barthes, Roland: “The Death of the Author,” pp. 142–48, “From Work to Text” pp. 155–64, “The grain of the voice”, pp. 179-189, in Image, Music, Text. (Transl. S. Heath.) London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1977.

Cook Nicholas: Music, A Very Short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Griffiths, Paul: Modern Music and After. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Ross, Alex: The Rest is Noise. Listening to the Twentieth Century. New York: Picador, 2007.

 

Texts available in the compendium (available at Akademika): 

Clarke, Eric: ‘Listening to Performance’, in John Rink (ed.), Musical Performance: A Guide to Undes?standing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 185-196.

Clarke, Eric: Ways of Listening. An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 3–48.

Danielsen, Anne: "Presence and Pleasure. The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament." Chapter 8, pp. 150-171.

Demers, Joanna: ‘Part III Situation. 5 Site in Ambient, Soundscape, and Field Recordings. 6 Genre, Experimentalism, and the Musical Frame’, in Listening through the Noise: TheAesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music, Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 113-154

Elliot, Martha: “Working with living composers” (ch. 9) from Singing in style. A guide to vocal performance practices, p. 286-306.

Heathcote, Abigail. “Sound Structures, Transformations, and Broken Magic : An Interview with Helmut Lachenmann.” In Contemporary Music: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by Irène Deliège and Max Paddison, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. pp. 331–48.

W?rner, Karl H.: ‘New Music and Society’, in Stockhausen. Life and Work. University of California Press, 1977, p. 172-222   

 

Supplementary literature for Master candidates (in the compendium):

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music (eds. N Cook and A Pople). Cambridge 2004, the following four chapters:

Chapter 13: “New Beginnings: the international avant-garde, 1945–62.” (David Osmond-Smith), pp. 336–363.

Chapter 17: “Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962–75.” (Richard Toop), pp. 453–477. 

Chapter 18: “To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity.” (Andrew Blake), pp. 478–505.

Chapter 19: “Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism.” (Alastair Williams), pp. 506–538.

Dibben, Nicola: “Musical Materials, Perception, and Listening.” The Cultural Study of Music. (Eds. M Clayton et al.) New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 193–203.

Finnegan, Ruth: “Music, Experience, and the Anthropology of Emotion.” The Cultural Study of Music. (Eds. M Clayton et al.) New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 181–192.

 

Supplementary Norwegian reading

Borchgrevink, Hild: 'Diamanter i en r?d Volvo - Samtale med Arne Nordheim, i H?vikodden Live 1968-2007, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 2007, p. 166-68

Buene, Eivind: Dobbeltliv, Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2014.

 

Texts available online or in UIO database:

Blonk, Jaap, van Peer, René: “Sounding the outer limits”, Leonardo Music Journal vol 15. 2005, p. 62-68.

Johansson, Mats: Chapter 2.2, “Identifying the core of performance style – the individual-expressive level of the generic framework.” pp. 36-49. Chapter 7, Conclusions and implications, pp. 237-270. https://teora.hit.no/bitstream/handle/2282/959/Avhandling%20-%20Mats%20Johansson.pdf?sequence=2 

Leppert, Richard: “Music ‘Pushed to the Edge of Existence’ (Adorno, Listening, and the Question of Hope”, in Cultural Critique 60, Spring 2005, pp. 110-124.

https://wiki.umn.edu/pub/MethodologySeminar8902/WebHome/Leppert.pdf

Mogharabi, Amir: “On Henri Bergson and Improvisation. Interview with Maja Ratkje”, at www.ratkje.com (5 p.)

Tinker, Benjamin Ethan: "Kineticism and Inclusiveness in the Music of Maja Ratkje", at www.ratkje.com (3 p.)

Toop, David: “Sound Body: ‘The Ghost of a Program’”, Leonardo Music Journal vol 15. 2005, p. 28-35 (8 p.)

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