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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