Reading Assignments in the Library
All these essays will be on reserve in the Library. Feel free to make a copy of them at the copy machines. The longest essay is the first Music and Society, about 30 pages. All the rest are considerably shorter (but also much denser).


Week 1: Elie Siegmeister: Music and Society

Week 2: Theodor Adorno: Music and Language

Week 3: Herbert Brün: The Function of Time in Art

Week 4: Mark Sullivan: Questions to Ask a Piece of Music
Mark Enslin: When is Audience?
Karl Kraus: The Public, the Artist, and the Fool

Week 5: Hanns Eisler/Theodor Adorno: Aesthetic Problems

Week 6: Pierre Boulez: Technology and the Composer

Week 7: Susan Parenti: Touchy

Week 8: Arnold Schoenberg: New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea
Gertrude Stein: What is Composition?

Week 9: Karlheinz Stockhausen: ``How time passes ...''

Week 10:John Cage: Experimental Music


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