Assignments
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Listening and reading to the end of term
Reading 1: Meister, “Contemporary England and the U.S.A.,” 183-189 (from Benjamin Britten to Samuel Barber)
Reading 2: Rorem, “The American art song: dead or alive?” (Electronic Reserve)
Reading 3: Meister, “Contemporary England and the U.S.A.,” 189-195
Reading 4: Davis, “On wings of song” (Electronic Reserve): re song recitals
Reading 5: Rothstein, “Did a man or a woman write that?” (Electronic Reserve)
Reading 6: Rorem, “Ladies’ music” (Electronic Reserve)
Reading 7: Ross, "Listening to Ned Rorem" (Electronic Reserve)
Listening: Britten, Folksong Arrangements and Holy Sonnets of John Donne
Listening: Barber songs
Listening: Bolcom and Rorem songs
Listening: Art Songs by Black American Composers
Listening: The Aids Quilt Songbook, personal CD on reserve
Paper 2, outline due Tuesday, 11/15
Paper 2, first draft due Tuesday, 11/29
Paper 2, final version due Tuesday, 12/6
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Listening and reading for 11/1
Reading: Meister, selections re French composers (Electronic Reserve)
Listening: French song: Berlioz (La mort d'Ophélie, songs from Les Nuits d'Eté), Fauré (Après un Rêve, Claire de Lune), Duparc (L’invitation au voyage), Debussy (Claire de Lune)
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Listening and reading for 10/4 - 10/11
Reading 1: Ostwald, in Schumann: inner voices of a musical genius, pp156-164 (on reserve): re the Liederjahr of 1840
Reading 2: Rothenberg, “ ‘Thus far, but no farther’: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s unfinished journey” (Electronic Reserve).
Reading 3: an excerpt from Nancy Reich's book on Clara Schumann (Electronic Reserve, ready by Saturday, 10/8).
Listening: Schumann, Liederkreis and Dichterliebe, both in Sound files and texts. Review the texts and choose two poems from each which speak to you; listen to the corresponding songs and be prepared to discuss on Thursday, 10/6 and, for those of you who were absent on 10/6, on Tuesday, 10/11. This discussion will be graded.
Listening 2: Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, all five songs (in Sound files and texts, in the Schumann folder)
Paper 1, draft 1 due (10/7).
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Listening and reading for 9/27 - 9/29
Reading: Meister, “Robert Schumann,” 69-76 (Electronic Reserve).
Listening 1: Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben, M1621.4 S4 Op42 Bz11 CD (on reserve, and on the Blackboard site in the Schumann folder)
Websites: Please review several performer sites on http://www.listeningarts.com/music/art_song/art_song_links, paying special attention to the two Thomas Quasthoff sites.
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Readings for Thursday, 9/22
Please visit these three web pages: http://www.hampsong.com/blog/winterreise.php?id=C0_22_11, http://83.65.7.42/~Hampson/blog/winterreise.php?id=P767, and http://www.gopera.com/winterreise/ for some fascinating material about Schubert's song cycle Winterreise (Winter's Journey).
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Listening and reading for 9/15 and 9/20
Reading 1: Meister, “Franz Schubert,” 57-68 (Electronic Reserve).
Reading 2: Kennedy, “Circle of Friends” (Electronic Reserve): about Schubert and his artistic companions, his personal life, and the process of recording the complete collection of Schubert’s songs during the 1990’s.
Listening: Schubert, Die schoene Muellerin songs 1, 8, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 (in Sound files and texts)
For 9/20:
Reading: Youens, “Die Nebensonnen” and “Der Leiermann” (Electronic Reserve): analysis of the last two songs from Schubert’s Winterreise.
Listening: Schubert, Winterreise songs 1, 3, 5, 14, 15, 20, 23, and 24 and Schwanengesang Kriegers Ahnung, In der Ferne, Der Atlas, Der Doppelgänger, and Die Taubenpost (in Sound files and texts)
- Complete Electronic Reserve for Music 116:
This is the complete reserve list: readings, recordings, and
videos.
Electronic Reserve
- Thomas Hampson's essay on Bernstein's "To What You Said" (Whitman)