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- Week 1:
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Jan 6 FoPA: Group Performance project #1
Tuesday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing I : Introduction to Solfege
Listening: Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in Eb Reading: Elie Siegmeister:
Music and Society
Thursday: FoPA Group Performance project #1
- Week 2:
- Jan 13 FoPA: Play proposal due
Tuesday: video of opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg (to go
with the play reading)
Thursday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 2 Listening: Lyric
Suite for string quartet by Alban Berg Reading: Music and
Language Theodor Adorno
- Week 3:
- Jan 20 [Monday: Martin Luther King Holiday]
Tuesday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 3 Listening: Herbert Brün:
String Quartet #2 Reading: Herbert Brün: The Function of
Time in Art
Thursday: Music project #1 due (performances)
- Week 4:
- Jan 27 FoPA: 1st Draft of play due FoPA: Performance Project #2
Tuesday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 4 Listening: Claude Debussy:
The Sea
Reading: Questions to Ask a Piece of Music Mark Sullivan
When is Audience? Mark Enslin The Public, the Artist,
and the Fool Karl Kraus
Thursday: FoPA Performance project #2
- Week 5:
- Feb 3 [Thursday: Day of Presence/Friday: Day of Absence] FoPA: Mon:
Lecture on Belioz: Symphony Fantastique
Tuesday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 5 Listening: 2nd movment
from Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony Reading: Hanns Eisler/Theodor
Adorno: Aesthetic Problems
Thursday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 6 Listening: 3rd movement
from Mahler's 3rd Symphony
Performance: Thursday 7:30pm Benaroya Hall Seattle, Seattle Symphony
Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
- Week 6:
- Feb 10 Tuesday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 7 Listening: Carla
Scaletti: SunSurgeAutomata Ann Warde: Circus Paul
Koonce: Pins Reading: Pierre Boulez: Technology and the
Composer
Thursday: Music project #2 due
- Week 7:
- Feb 17 [Mon: Presidents' Day Holiday] FoPA: 2nd draft of play due
FoPA: Performance project #3
Tuesday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 8 Listening: Charles Ives:
Piano Sonata #1 Reading: Susan Parenti: Touchy
Thursday: FoPA performance Project #3
- Week 8:
- Feb 24 FoPA: Mon: Lecture on Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
Tuesday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 9 Listening: Schoenberg:
String Quartet #2 in F#m Reading: Arnold Schoenberg: New Music,
Outmoded Music, Style and Idea
Thursday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 10 Listening: Hanns Eisler:
Fourteen ways to describe ``Rain'' Reading: What is
Composition? (entire essay) (Gertrude Stein)
Sunday: Performance: Seattle Chamber Players, Sunday, March 2
7pm Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire Hanns Eisler: Fourteen
ways to describe ``Rain''
- Week 9:
- Mar 3
Tuesday: Music project #3 due
Thursday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 11 Listening: Groups
for three orchestras: Karheinz Stockhausen Reading: How Time
Passes... Karheinz Stockhausen
Sunday: Performance: Sunday March 9 8pm, The Olympia Chamber Orchestra
Schumann: Piano Concerto Mozart: Symphony #39 Margaret Helmuth:
The Origins of the Fantastic Dream for Orchestra and computer
- Week 10:
- Mar 10 FoPA: Final version of play due FoPA: Performance project
#4
Tuesday: Ear Training and Sight-Singing 12 Reading: Experimental
Music by John Cage Listening: Lejaren Hiller: String Quartet
#4
Thursday: FoPA performance project #4
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