Readings for July 30, 2007
  • "The Twelve-Tone System: Schoenberg" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "The Twelve-Tone System: Webern" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "The Twelve-Tone System: Berg" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "New Discipline: The Twelve-Tone Method" from Modernism and Music by Daniel Albright (pdf)
Additional Readings (read what you can)
  • "The Last Year" from Alban Berg by Mosco Carner (pdf)
  • "Orchestral Music: The Violin Concerto" from Alban Berg by Mosco Carner (pdf)
  • "Schoenberg: World War I and after" from The New Grove Second Viennese School (pdf)
  • "Schoenberg: Serial and tonal works 1920–36" from The New Grove Second Viennese School (pdf)
  • "Webern" Serial works 1927–45" from The New Grove Second Viennese School (pdf)

Readings for July 25, 2007
  • "Neo-Classicism" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "The 'New Spirit' in France" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "Stravinsky and Neo-Classicism" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "Neo-Classicism: Bartók" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "Neoclassicism and the New Objectivity" from Modernism and Music by Daniel Albright (pdf)
  • "Dadaism and Surrealism" from Modernism and Music by Daniel Albright (pdf)
Special Bonus Readings (In case you haven't had enough…)
  • "The Historical Context: Europe after World War I" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "Satie Before and After Cocteau" [start at p. 227] by William Austin (pdf)
  • "'Les Six' and Jean Cocteau" by Vera Rašìn (pdf)
  • "Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Neo-Classicism: The Issues Reexamined" by Alan Lessem (pdf)
  • "Stravinsky and the Franco-Russian Style," Chapter 13, from 20th Century Music by Joan Peyser (pdf)

Readings for July 23, 2007
Stravinsky, 1914–1920
  • Chapter Three, "1914–20," from The New Grove Modern Masters (pdf)
  • "Stravinsky and the Franco-Russian Style," Chapter 12, from 20th Century Music by Joan Peyser (pdf)
Bartók, 1911–1924
  • "Béla Bartók" from Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music by John C. Crawford and Dorothy L. Crawford (pdf)
  • Chapter Eight, "Years of extension, 1911–24," from The New Grove Modern Masters (pdf)
Berg's Wozzeck (1914–1922)
  • "Expression and construction: the stage works of Schoenberg and Berg" by Alan Street [pp.93–96] (pdf)
  • "The Problem of Opera" by Alban Berg from Modernism and Music by Daniel Albright (pdf)
  • Berg/Wozzeck from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • Wozzeck synopsis from Grove Music Online (pdf)

Readings for July 18, 2007
Stravinsky
  • "Stravinsky, Igor" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Stravinsky" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "Diaghilev, Sergey" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Diaghilev and the Russian Exiles" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Bartók, Béla" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Bartók" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • Bluebeard's Castle synopsis (pdf)

Readings for July 16, 2007
Busoni
  • "Busoni, Ferruccio" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • Busoni: "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music" from Strunk's Source Readings in Music History (pdf)
Russolo and Futurism
  • "Russolo, Luigi" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Futurism" from The Vinton Dictionary of Contemporary Music (pdf)
  • "Noise" [Introduction to "The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto"] from Modernism and Music by Daniel Albright (pdf)
  • Russolo: "The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto" from Strunk's Source Readings in Music History (pdf)
Zemlinsky
  • "Zemlinsky, Alexander" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Alexander Zemilinsky" from the Alexander Zemlinsky Foundation web site (pdf)
  • "Arnold Schoenberg and Alexander Zemlinsky" from the Arnold Schoenberg Center web site (pdf)
Schreker
  • "Schreker, Franz" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Franz Schreker and The Pluralities of Modernism" by Christopher Hailey (pdf)
  • "Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schreker" from the Arnold Schoenberg Center web site (pdf)
Other items:
  • "The Noise Instruments of Luigi Russolo" by Barclay Brown [check out the photos!] (pdf)
  • Missing Berg page from last time (pdf)

Readings for July 11, 2007
Webern and Berg to World War I
  • "Berg and Webern" from Twentieth Century Music by Eric Salzman (pdf)
  • "Webern and Berg" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "Anton Webern" from Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music by John C. Crawford and Dorothy L. Crawford (pdf)
  • "Alban Berg" [to Wozzeck] from Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music by John C. Crawford and Dorothy L. Crawford (pdf)
Optional/Skim/Reference:
  • "Berg, Alban" [to Wozzeck] from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Webern, Anton" [to op. 15 ] from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • Berg Timeline (pdf)
  • Webern Timeline (pdf)
  • "Berg and Debussy" by Hans F. Redlich (pdf)
  • "Reflections upon the Gershwin-Berg Connection" by Allen Forte (pdf)
  • "Webern and Atonality: The Path from the Old Aesthetic" by Arnold Whittall (pdf)
  • "Alban Berg and Peter Altenberg: Intimate Art and the Aesthetics of Life" by David P. Schroeder (pdf)

Readings for July 5, 2007
Schoenberg to World War I
  • finish reading articles/excerpts from last assignment
  • "Convergences: Music and the Visual Arts" [excerpt] from German Modernism by Walter Frisch (pdf)
  • Expressionism from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Schoenberg and the Crisis of Expressionism" by Alan Lessem (pdf)
  • "Pablo Picasso: Seeing All Sides, 1906–1907" from The First Moderns by William Everdell (pdf)
  • "Vassily Kandinsky: Art with No Object, 1911–1912" from The First Moderns by William Everdell (pdf)

Readings for June 27, 2007
Schoenberg to 1908
  • "Schoenberg, Arnold" from Grove Music Online, article 1, 5, and 6 (pdf)
  • "The Emancipation of the Dissonance" from Twentieth Century Music by Peter Yates (pdf)
  • "An Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg" from Twentieth Century Music by Peter Yates (pdf)
  • "The Atonal Revolution: Schoenberg" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "Arnold Schoenberg: Music in No Key, 1908" from The First Moderns by William Everdell (pdf)
  • "Historical Contexts" from Arnold Schoenberg, The Second String Quartet in F-sharp minor, Opus 10, Norton Critical Scores (pdf)
  • Texts to the poems by Stefan George in movements III and IV: Litanei (pdf), Entrückung (pdf)
  • "Debussy and Schoenberg" from The Musical Times (pdf)
  • "Schoenberg and Mahler" from The Arnold Schönberg Center (pdf)

Readings for June 25, 2007
Strauss
  • "Strauss, Richard" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Some Transitional Figures—Germany: Strauss" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
Satie
  • "Satie, Erik" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Some Transitional Figures—France: Satie" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
Scriabin
  • "Scriabin, Aleksandr" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Some Transitional Figures—Russia: Scriabin" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)

Readings for June 20, 2007
Debussy
  • "Debussy, Claude" from Grove Music Online, articles 6, 7, 10, 11, and 12 (pdf)
  • "An Introduction to Claude Debussy" from Twentieth Century Music by Peter Yates (pdf)
  • "Some Transitional Figures—France: Debussy" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • Pélleas et Mélisande Synopsis (pdf)
  • "Claude Debussy" (1908) by M. D. Calvocoressi (pdf)
  • "Musical Impressionism: The Early History of the Term" by Ronald L. Byrnside (pdf)
  • "Impressionism" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Impressionism" from Grove Art Online (pdf)

Readings for June 18, 2007
Mahler
  • "Mahler, Gustav — 7. Vienna 1897–1907." from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Mahler, Gustav — 8. Vienna 1897–1907." from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Mahler, Gustav — 9. Vienna 1897–1907." from Grove Music Online (pdf)
  • "Some Transitional Figures—Austria: Mahler" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
  • "The Sensuality of Timbre: Responses to Mahler and Modernity at the 'Fin de siècle'" by Karen Painter (pdf)
  • "Mahler and Viennese Modernism" by Paul Banks (pdf; see links below)
  • Klimt's Beethoven Frieze [Mahler depicted as a knight in shining armor] (link) (qtvr)
  • Rodin's bust of Mahler (link)

Readings for June 13, 2007
"Modernism" from Grove Music Online, articles 1–5 (pdf)
"Avant garde" from Grove Music Online (pdf)
"Introduction: The Nineteenth Century Musical Background" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
"The Historical Context: Europe at the Turn of the Century" from Twentieth Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
"Secret Languages: The Roots of Musical Modernism" by Robert P. Morgan (pdf)
"Introduction" from Modernism and Music by Daniel Albright (pdf)

Optional/Skim:
"The Century Ends in Vienna" from The First Moderns by William Everdell (pdf)
"The Century Begins in France" from The First Moderns by William Everdell (pdf)
"The Assault on Modernism" (pdf)
"Conservatism and Modernism" (pdf)