I500 Listening List

*Fall 2006   Spring 2007

The following pieces represent the Fall 2006/Spring 2007 Listening List for I500. If you are at a computer workstation in the Cook Music Library, click on the link below each selection to access the Variations2 playback. Variations2 is also available for installation on your own computer. For instructions on downloading and installing Variations2, visit http://variations2.indiana.edu/use/where.html.

*Please Note: The exam will cover works in the "Reaction", "Art to Music", and "Stand Alone" categories. "Seminal Works" will not be included on the exam.

Fall Semester

Connecting the Dots...

SEMINAL WORK (20th century small mixed ensemble):

Schoenberg:  Pierrot Lunaire (1912) http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AGA9171

REACTIONS:

Stravinsky: Three Japanese Lyrics (1913)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ADF5451

Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat (1918)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AFW1615

Ravel:  Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé (1913)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AHM3449

Boulez:  Le Marteau sans maitre (1954; rev. 1957)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/BGP3121

SEMINAL WORK (polyrythm, polymeter, 20th century Minimalism):

12th Century Notre-Dame Organa: 

Leonin: Viderunt Omnes
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ACR2394

Perotin: Benedicamus Domino
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AHP5887

REACTION:

Reich:  Variations for Winds, Strings & Keyboards (1980)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA3029

SEMINAL WORKS (piano interior, prepared piano):

Cowell:  Aeolian Harp   (1925)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ALM3133

Cowell:  The Banshee  (1923)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ALM3133

Cage:  Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1943)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AKJ3482

REACTIONS:

Crumb:  Makrokosmos I-II (1946-48)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA1563

Ward-Steinman: Intersections II: 'Borobudur' for Percussion and Fortified Piano (1989)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA3734

FROM ART TO MUSIC (Ut pictora musice...):

Rands:  Le Tambourin, Suites and 1 and 2 [after Van Gogh] (1984)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA3732

STAND ALONES, HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT:

Harris:  3rd Symphony (1939)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/ALD5441

Subotnick:  Silver Apples of the Moon (1967)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/ALR6612

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Spring Semester (in progress)

Shankar:  Concerto No. 1 for Sitar and Orchestra http://server1.variations2.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/access?VAA4636

Heisinger:  EKTA http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA4637

Ligeti:  Atmosphères (1961)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA0572

Adams:  Shaker Loops (1978)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA0077

Penderecki:  Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AFG2051

Lutoslawski:  Concerto for Orchestra (1981)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA1686

Sandstrom:  The High Mass (1993)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ALQ7633

Partch:  Revelation in the Courthouse Park (1960)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/VAA3733

Harrison:  Pacifika Rondo (1963)
http://server1.variations2.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/access?baj1496

Copland:  3rd Symphony (1944-46)
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/variations/sound/ADM5328