MUS 420 Caltabiano
Recommended Listening List Part I (by technique)
Modal
Claude Debussy: String Quartet Lou Harrison: Threnody for Carlos Chavez (gamelan and viola) Charles Ives: The Cage (voice and piano) Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
Polytonal
Charles Ives: The Bridge at Housatonic (voice and piano) Darius Milhaud: Saudados da Brazil (Souvenirs from Brazil) (piano) Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (23 winds)
Free atonal/pitch-class
Gyrgy Ligeti: Chamber Concerto (13 instruments) Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (flute, clarinet, violin/viola, cello, piano, reciter) Edgard Varse: Octandre (mixed octet) Anton Webern: Five Pieces for String Quartet
Serialism
Alban Berg: Violin Concerto, Lyric Suite (string quartet) Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale (piano) Peter Maxwell Davies: Ave Maris Stella (mixed sextet) Igor Stravinsky: Septet Anton Webern: Symphony, Op. 21 (chamber orchestra)
Minimalism
John Adams: Harmonielehre (orchestra) Steve Reich: Drumming (percussion quartet)
Impressionism
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes (orchestra) Gyrgy Ligeti: Atmospheres (string orchestra) Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit (piano)
Interval-based
Elliott Carter: Brass Quintet Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi La Nuit (string quartet) Witold Lutoslawski: Venetian Games (orchestra)
Texture
Bla Bartk: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (orchestra) Gyrgy Ligeti: Atmosphres (string orchestra) Anton Webern: Symphony, Op. 21 (chamber orchestra) Iannis Xenakis: Metastaseis (string orchestra)
Electronic/Computer Music
Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer (soprano and tape) Harrison Birtwistle: Chronometer Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 5 (percussion quintet and tape) Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon Charles Wuorinen: Time's Encomium
Expressionism
Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King (mixed sextet and reciter) Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (flute, clarinet, violin/viola, cello, piano, reciter)
Nationalism
Bla Bartk: Improvisation, op. 20, no. 7 (piano) Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor Ralph Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (orchestra)
Neoclassicism
Paul Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis (piano) [neo Baroque] Francis Poulenc: Gloria (chorus and orchestra) Igor Stravinsky: Octet
Indeterminacy
Luciano Berio: Sequenza No. 6 (solo viola) Earle Brown: Available Forms II (0rchestra) John Cage: Concerto for Piano Witold Lutoslawski: Chain One (15 instruments)
Rhythmic Concepts
Beatless
Gyrgy Ligeti: 10 Pieces for Woodwind Quintet Iannis Xenakis: Metastaseis (string orchestra)
Mixed meter
Bla Bartk: Divertimento for Strings Dave Brubeck: Blue Rondo a la Turk (jazz quartet) Igor Stravinsky: Rite of Spring (orchestra)
Pulses vs. beat
Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 1 Charles Ives: Unanswered Question (orchestra) Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano
Vernacular Influence
Folk
Bla Bartk: Improvisations, op. 20, no. 7 (piano) Luciano Berio: Folk Songs (soprano and seven players)
Jazz
Aaron Copland: Piano Concerto Darius Milhaud: La creation du monde (The Creation of the World) (orchestra) Gunther Schuller: Concertino (jazz ensemble and orchestra) Igor Stravinsky: Ragtime (11 instruments)
Rock
Steven Mackey: Lost and Found (acoustic and electric guitar quartet) Adams: Chamber Symphony (chamber orchestra)
Part II (by instrument/ensemble)
Band
Karel Husa: Music for Prague 1968 Vincent Persichetti: Masquerade Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Woodwinds
Flute
Edgard Varse: Density 21.5
Oboe
Walter Piston: Suite for Oboe and Piano
Clarinet
Pierre Boulez: Quartet for the End of Time, 3rd movement
Bassoon
Joseph Schwantner: Chronicon for bassoon and piano
Saxophone
Vincent Persichetti: Parable for alto saxophone
Brass
Horn
Peter Maxwell Davies: Sea Eagles
Trumpet
Igor Stravinsky: Fanfare for a New Theater for two trumpets
Trombone
Luciano Berio: Sequenza for trombone
Tuba
Krzysztof Penderecki: Capriccio for tuba solo
Percussion
Elliott Carter: Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Chamber Music
Samuel Adler: Line Drawings after Mark Tobey (saxophone quartet) Jacob Druckman: Other Voices (brass quintet) Gyrgi Ligeti: Six Bagatelles (woodwind quintet) Edgard Varse: Ionisation (percussion ensemble)
String Orchestra
Bla Bartk: Divertimento Aaron Copland: Quiet City (with solo trumpet and English horn) Iannis Xenakis: Metastaseis
Violin
George Rochberg: Caprice Variations for solo violin
Viola
Gyrgy Ligeti: Sonata for solo viola
Cello
Benjamin Britten: Cello Suite No. 2
Bass
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for double bass
String Chamber Music
Bla Bartk: String Quartet 5 Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio Anton Webern: Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5
Full Orchestra
Bla Bartk: Concerto for Orchestra Witotld Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3 Igor Stravinsky: Rite of Spring William Schuman: Symphony No. 3
Chorus
Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols Gyorgy Liget: Lux Aeterna Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Solo Voice
Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Benjamin Britten: Serenade for tenor, strings, and horn Charles Ives: Songs: The Cage, Shall We Gather at the River (voice and piano)
Opera
Alban Berg: Wozzeck Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes Claude Debussy: Plleas et Mlisande Richard Strauss: Salome
Oratorio
Benjamin Britten: War Requiem
Other Instruments
Piano
Bla Bartk: Sonata Elliott Carter: Night Fantasies Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera Mario Davidovsky: Synchronism No. 6 (piano and tape) Claude Debussy: Preludes from Book I: La Cathdrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral), Voiles (Sails), La Fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7
Harp
Benjamin Britten: Suite Paul Hindemith: Sonata Carlos Salzedo: Scintillation
Guitar
Benjamin Britten: Nocturnal Toru Takamitsu: Toward the Sea Hans Werner Henze: Carillon, Rcitatif, Masque
Electric Guitar
Steve Mackey: Grungy
