University of South Carolina
School of Music

BAIN MUSC 725
Contemporary Styles II (1945-80)

Summer 2019

MUSC 725 | AS CSL | Grove/Oxford | Harvard Dictionary | JSTOR | Naxos2 | UofSC OPAC


C O U R S E   M O D U L E S
1. Origins
2.

Serialism

3. Texturalism & Timbralism
4. Tuning
5. Electronic Music
6. Indeterminacy & Experimentalism
7. Minimalism
Integration
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Course Description

Theory, analysis and aesthetics of compositional styles associated with
new directions in classical music for the period 1945-80.

Prerequisite

Undergraduate music theory sequence

Course Documents

  1. Syllabus (pdf)
  2. Bibliography
  3. Final Presentation
  4. Links for Students

Course Materials

  1. Listening/Analysis
  2. Reading
  3. Terms & Concepts
  4. Analytic Approaches
  5. Theory Resources
  6. Handouts
  7. Works for Exploration

Recommended Texts

Antokoletz, Elliott. 2014. A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context. New York: Routledge. {GB}

Cope, David. 2001. New Directions in Music, 7th ed. Long Grove, IL: Waveland. {GBd}

Gann, Kyle. 1997. American Music in the Twentieth Century. New York: Schirmer. {GBd}

Straus, Joseph. 2016. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, 4th ed. New York: Norton. {GB}

Taruskin, Richard. 2010b. Music in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}

Software for Computer-Aided Analysis

  1. PC Polygon Assistant, v2.00b
  2. Twelve-Tone Assistant, v2.4d
  3. Ratio to Cents, v2.03
  4. SLAPI, v1.1

Gateways to Contemporary Classical Music

  1. Categorizing Contemporary Classical Music
  2. Warner Classics, 100 Best 20th Century Classics {Naxos}
  3. Tom Service, 50 compoers you should know {Gaurdian}
  4. Awards/Prizes
  5. What's Going on Now?

Digital Resources

  1. Research Links
  2. Dictionaries
  3. Recordings
  4. Digital Scores and Score Followers (SF)

AS CSL- Alexander Street Classical Scores Library

GB - Google Books Preview; GBd - (description only)


Updated: September 30, 2021

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