• Chapters 1-8
    • The thousand anonymous sounds made when leaves are caressed by the moon winds light.
    • Arnold Schoenberg's harmony, Stravinsky's rhythm, Debussy's form
    • Paris - picasso/stravinsky
    • Vienna - Schoenberg/ Oskar Kokoschka ( painter ) & Adolf Loos ( architect)
    • Ives - Concord Sonata ( town with Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, Thoreau )
    • Constructivist sound ( belief system )
    • Serialism
    • Maurice Maeterlinck | writer
    • Strindberg | metaphysics
    • German symbolists
    • Carl Ruggles - most Schoenberg American composer
    • Bela Bartok ( hungary folk )
    • Leos Janacek ( czech)
    • Smetana ( czech romantic befor janacek )
    • Dvorak ( czech romantics before janacek )
    • Luigi Russolo / futurist composer ( noises )
  • Max Reger
  • Ferruccio Busoni
  • Edward Elgar
  • Carl Nielsen
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • William Walton
  • Samuel Barber
  • Alban Berg
  • Anton Webern
  • Edgard Varèse
  • Charles Ives
  • Henry Cowell
  • Nikolai Roslavets
  • Darius Milhaud
  • Alois Hába
  • Julián Carrillo
  • Ivan Wyschnegradsky
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Aaron Copland
  • Roy Harris
  • Michael Tippett
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Elliott Carter
  • Francis Poulenc
  • Arthur Honegger
  • Guillaume de Machaut
  • Ernst Krenek
  • Hanns Eisler
  • Claude Debussy - prelude a l'apres-midi du faun
  • Arnold Schoenberg - Gurrelieder (1900-11
  • Alexander Scriabin- Prometheus
  • Claude Debussy - Jeux
  • Claude Debussy - En blanc et noir
  • Claude Debussy - the twelve studies
  • Anton Webern - five orchestral pieces
  • Bela Bartok - the Miraculous Mandarin ( response to rites of spring)
  • Manuel de Falla - nights in the gardens of Spain
  • Igor Stravinsky - concierto for piano and winds
  • Paul Hindemith - kammermusik
  • Olivier Messiaen - anti anti romntc
  • Maurice Ravel - g major piano concerto '31
  • Edward Elgar - cello concerto (last)
  • Jean Sibelius- Tapiola ( last )
  • Paul Dukas - la peri ( last )
  • Igor Stravinsky - violin concerto in d '31
  • Igor Stravinsky - symphony in three movements
  • Bela Bartok - second piano concerto
  • Arnold Schoenberg - Erwartung
  • Arnold Schoenberg - die jakobsleiter
  • Alban Berg - wozzeck
  • Alban Berg - altenberglieder
  • Alban Berg - chamber concerto
  • Anton Webern - symphony 1928
  • Arnold Schoenberg - piano suite 1923
  • Anton Webern - six trakl songs
  • George Antheil - ballet mecanique
  • Arthur Honegger - pacific 231
  • Alexander Mosolov - steel ( factory ballet )
  • Sergei Prokofiev - le pas d'acier
  • Edgard Varèse - Ameriques
  • Edgard Varèse - Ionisation ( percussion only)
  • Ferruccio Busoni - sketch for a new music aesthetic
  • Henry Cowell - the tides of manaunaun
  • Henry Cowell - aeolian harp
  • Henry Cowell - banshee
  • Henry Cowell - mosaic quartet
  • Carl Ruggles - suntreader
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger - String Quartet
  • Amadeo Roldán - ritmicas
  • Harry Partch - 43 notes to the octave!!
  • John Cage - first construction in metal
  • Igor Stravinsky - rag time
  • Darius Milhaud - la creation du monde
  • Maurice Ravel - violin sonata
  • Nikolai Roslavets- serialist Russian
  • Alexander Mosolov - subFuturist
  • Ch9 eastern influence
    • Pupils of Messiaen: Pierre Boulez, Jean Barraqué, Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Colin McPhee
  • Giacinto Scelsi
  • Steve Reich
  • Jean Barraqué
  • Claude Debussy - pagodes
  • John Cage - music of changes
  • Olivier Messiaen - l'ascension
  • Olivier Messiaen - poemes pour mi
  • Olivier Messiaen - catalogue d'oiseaux
  • Pierre Boulez - le marteau sans
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - mantra
  • Ch10 serialism continued
  • Roberto Gerhard
  • Nikos Skalkottas
  • Ernst Krenek - later works
  • Frank Martin
  • Luigi Dallapiccola
  • Pierre Boulez - Structures
  • Pierre Boulez - Structures Ia
  • Pierre Boulez - poesie pour pouvoir
  • Milton Babbitt - 3 comps for piano
  • Milton Babbitt - 2nd string quartet
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kreuzspiel
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Punkte
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - gruppen
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - carré
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - momente
  • Jean Barraqué - romantic of the post war era
  • Jean Barraqué - Sequence
  • Jean Barraqué - piano sonata
  • Jean Barraqué - la mort de virgile
  • Ch11 electronics
    • Predecessor Varèse
    • Radiodiffusion Française (Paris) musique concrete [ Schaeffer, Henry ]
    • Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk ( Cologne ) electronic music [ Stockhausen ]
    • Live electronic music: Sonic Arts Union ( US ), Stockhausen's ensemble, Musica Elettronica Viva (Rome),
    • Computer Music: Max Matthews ( Bell Labs ) - developed Music IV software, Boulez, Hiller, Xenakis
  • Edgard Varèse - desert
  • Edgard Varèse - poeme electrinique*
  • Pierre Schaeffer
  • Pierre Henry - symphonie pour un homme seul
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie I
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Junglinge
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
  • Milton Babbitt - Ensembles for Synthesizer (62) ( electronic rhythmic serialism )
  • Milton Babbitt - Philomel (63 tape )
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mikeophonie 1 ( 1st live electro )
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mixtur ( mod imprv orch )
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Prozession ( new unity* )
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kurzwellen ( process .. )
  • Terry Riley - In C (64)
  • PIERRE BOULEZ - repons
  • PIERRE BOULEZ - 6 percussion soloists
  • Lejaren Hiller - iliac suite
  • Iannis Xenakis - eonta
  • Chapter 12 Chance
    • like minded colleagues of Cage - David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff
    • Steve Reich ( false perceptions similar to the paintings of Bridget Riley )
  • John Cage - music of changes (1951)
  • John Cage - imaginary landscapes
  • John Cage - 4' 33" (1952)
  • Pierre Boulez - le marteau sans maitre
  • David Tudor
  • Morton Feldman - Projections
  • Earle Brown - Twenty Five Pages ( Dec 1952 )
  • Christian Wolff
  • György Ligeti - Atmospheres
  • György Ligeti - Requiem
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Aus den sieben tagen ( goldstaub)
  • Chapter 13 - theater and politics
    • Opera / Britten, Tippett, Hans Werner Henze ( not avant guarde)
    • Luigi Nono ( Italian communist intense )
    • Mauricio Kagel (music of poverty and error)
    • Collective Creative work:
    • Musica Elettronica Viva (Italian) [ Sound Pool ]
    • Scratch Orchestra ( British )[ formed by Cornelius Cardew]
  • Luigi Nono - il canto sospeso
  • Luigi Nono - Intolleranza
  • Luciano Berio - allelujah ii ( for 5 orchestral groups )
  • Luciano Berio - Epifanie ( 1960 )
  • Luciano Berio - Circles
  • Luciano Berio - Traces ( about race)
  • Luciano Berio - Opera ( 1969)
  • Luciano Berio - Laborintus ii ( capitalism )
  • Luciano Berio - Sequenze!
  • Peter Maxwell Davies - 8 songs for a mad King
  • Harrison Birtwistle - Down by the greenwood side
  • Harrison Birtwistle - Punch and Judy
  • Mauricio Kagel - Sur scène
  • Mauricio Kagel - Pas de cinq
  • Mauricio Kagel - Match
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Sternklang (1971)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Trans
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Licht* (7 days!)
  • Witold Lutosławski
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Babiy Yar
  • Alfred Schnittke
  • Henri Pousseur - Couleurs croisees
  • Hans Werner Henze - El cimarron
  • Hans Werner Henze - Das langwierig Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
  • Hans Werner Henze - We Come to the River
  • Chapter 14 - minimalism and multiplicity
    • Dmitri Shostakovich 5th Symphony was Soviet Artists reply to just criticism ( secretly reactionary 1937 )
    • Louis Andriessen (dutch )heavy amplified, irregular venues, strongly pulsed, repetitive
    • Arvo Pärt ( Estonia ) simple repetitive stasis
  • Louis Andriessen
  • Arvo Pärt
  • Terry Riley - In C
  • Steve Reich - Four Organs
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen- Stimmung
  • La Monte Young - (NY) repetitive
  • Steve Reich - Drumming
  • Phillip Glass - amplified - music in 12 parts ( 1971 - 4)
  • Phillip Glass - Einstein on the beach ( 1976 collar with Robert Wilson. Foray into opera )
  • John Adams - Nixon in China(1987)
  • Steve Reich - Telihim ( 1981 voices )
  • Steve Reich - Desert Music (84 chr/orch)
  • Steve Reich - the Four Sections (87 orch)
  • Steve Reich - Different Trains (88 strings)
  • Morton Feldman - Second String Quartet (83)
  • Luigi Nono - late works
  • György Kurtág - minimalism of daring
  • György Kurtág - Kafka-Fragmente (85)
  • Wolfgang Rihm
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky
  • Conlon Nancarrow - studies for player piano
  • Charles Koechlin
  • Lou Harrison
  • Toru Takemitsu
  • Elliott Carter - First String Quartet (1951)
  • Elliott Carter - Double Concerto (1961)
  • Elliott Carter - Concerto for Orchestra (1969)
  • Harrison Birtwistle - Triumph of Time (1972)
  • Harrison Birtwistle - Earth Dances (1986)
  • Iannis Xenakis - Jonchaies (1977)
  • Brian Ferneyhough - Etudes Transcendentales (84
  • Luciano Berio - Formazioni (1987)
  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Die Soldaten (58 to 64)
  • George Rochberg - Contra mortem et tempus (65)
  • George Rochberg - Third Quartet ( return to Mahler
  • György Ligeti - Melodien (71)
  • György Ligeti - Horn Trio (82)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - 5th Symphony
Modern Music
by Paul Griffiths

RANDO COMPOSITION