TWENTIETH CENTURY
Readings: 
(MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD-A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS)
MALLARME - A Faun’s Afternoon
CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Musical Impressionism p. 417-18, 420
CHARLES IVES - Essays and Memos p. 423-26
CHARLES IVES - The Unanswered Question
IGOR STRAVINSKY - The Rite of Spring p. 438-43
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG - on composing
ALBAN BERG - The Making of Wozzeck p. 477-78
WILLIAM GRANT STILL - Afro-American Symphony
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony #5
AARON COPLAND - on composing
AARON COPLAND - The Composer in Industrial America p. 492-95
OLIVER MESSIAEN - Quartet for the end of time
JOHN CAGE - The Music of Chance p. 522-25
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI - To This We've Come
MILTON BABBITT - The Contemporary Composer and Society p. 529-34
BENJAMIN BRITTEN - Agnus Dei
GEORGE CRUMB - Vox Balaenae
PHILIP GLASS - Einstein on the Beach
LEONARD BERNSTEIN – Mass
MEREDITH MONK - Turtle Dreams

1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990

1900
Painting: Munch - The Scream
Van Gogh - The Starry Night
Experimentalist
Charles Ives
"The Unanswered Question" CD1212 #7 or 5
CHARLES IVES - The Unanswered Question
Musical Theatre
Scott Joplin – "Treemonisha" VHS
www.io.com/~cortese/joplin/libretto.html
www.best.com/~chapka/opera/joplin/treemonisha
Popular
Sophie Tucker CD694 #1
Al Jolson CD694 #5, CD879 #1

1920
Painting: Picasso - Three Musicians
Chagall - The Fallen Angel
Douglas – Charleston
                  God’s Trombones
Serialism, Expressionism, and Sprechstimme
Arnold Schoenberg
"Pierrot Lunaire" CD64 #1
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG - on composing
Alban Berg
"Wozzeck" LVD, CD1073
Dixieland
Louis Armstrong CD699 #5
Musical Theatre
" Showboat " LVD
Popular
Bing Crosby
Country
Carter Family CD759 #9

1930
Painting: Dali - The Persistence of Memory
               Blume - The Eternal City
Nationalism
William Grant Still
"Afro-American Symphony" CD1232 #3
WILLIAM GRANT STILL - Afro-American Symphony
Dmitri Shostakovich
"Symphony No. 5" CD510 #4
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony #5
Swing
Duke Ellington LVD
Count Basie LVD
Benny Goodman LVD
Ella Fitzgerald LVD
Musical Theatre
"Porgy and Bess" LVD
Popular
George Gershwin
"Embraceable You" CD879 #5
"Someone To Watch Over You" CD879 #21
"Rhapsody in Blue" CD
Western
Gene Autry
Folk
Woody Guthrie CD1217 #7
Movies
Judy Garland LVD

1940
Painting: Pollack - Number 1, 1948
Nationalism
Aaron Copland
"Fanfare for the Common Man" CD1215 #1
"Appalachian Spring" CD1215 #6
AARON COPLAND - on composing
Chamber
Oliver Messiaen
"Quatuor pour la fin du temps" CD637 #1 &2
OLIVER MESSIAEN - Quartet for the end of time
Big Band
Glenn Miller LVD
Be Bop
Charlie Parker LVD
Dizzy Gillespie CD968 #9
Musical Theatre
"Oklahoma" LVD
Folk
Pete Seeger/Weavers LVD
Popular
Nat King Cole LVD

1950
Painting: Lawrence – Migration
                                    Parade
                                    Vaudeville
Rothko – Yellow Band
                Brown on Blue

Prepared Piano
John Cage CD1301 #5 & 9
Indeterminacy
John Cage
"4'33" CD1301 #3
Opera
Gian Carlo Menotti
"The Consul" CD 1708
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI - To This We've Come
"Cool"
Miles Davis CD1237 #1
John Coltrane
Musical Theatre
"West Side Story" LVD
Rhythm and Blues
Chuck Berry LVD
Rock and Roll
Bill Haley LVD
Elvis Presley LVD
Television
Frank Sinatra
Folk
Kingston Trio

1960
Painting: Warhol – Soup Can
                                Green Coca-Cola Bottles
                                Marilyn Diptych
Rauschenberg – Quote
Lichtenstein – Drowning Girl
Electronic-Musique Concrete
Edgar Varese
"Poeme electronique" CD1234 #1
Electronic-Synthesizer
Milton Babbitt
"Phonemena" CD1234 #2
Choral-Requiem
Benjamin Britten
"War Requiem" CD778 2#2
BENJAMIN BRITTEN - Agnus Dei
West Coast
Dave Brubeck CD1003 #3
Musical Theatre
"Charlie Brown"
"Fantasticks" CD 723 #8
Folk Protest
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
Peter,Paul & Mary CD1218 #1
British Invasion
Beatles LVD
Folk/Rock
Simon & Garfunkel LVD
Motown
Diana Ross & the Supremes LVD
Stevie Wonder LVD
Soul
Aretha Franklin LVD
James Brown LVD

1970
Wall Mural: Walker - Wall of Understanding
Computor Generated Em – Nora
Instrument and Voice Exploration
George Crumb
"Vox Balaenae" CD325
GEORGE CRUMB - Vox Balaenae
Minimalism
Phillip Glass
"Einstein on the Beach" CD201
PHILIP GLASS - Einstein on the Beach
Mass
Leonard Bernstein
"Mass" CD556
LEONARD BERNSTEIN – Mass
Jazz
"Alive"
Chuck Mangione
Rock Opera
"Hair"
"Tommy"
Musical Theatre
"A Chorus Line" LVD
Popular/Films
Barbra Streisand
Disco
Donna Summer
BeeGees
Country
Willie Nelson

1980
Painting: Valerio - Differing Views
Leonard – Julia and the Window of Vulnerability
Women Composers
Joan Tower
"Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman" CD1216 #
Meredith Monk "
"Turtle Dreams" CD1214 #
MEREDITH MONK - Turtle Dreams
Ellen Taafe Zwilich
"Concerto Grosso 1985" CD534 #
Jazz
Wynton Marsalis
Musical Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber
"Cats" VHS
"Evita"
"Phantom of the Opera"
"Aspects of Love"
Popular
Michael Jackson
Madonna

1990
Shulamit Ran
"Mirage" CD 1707 #8
Wynton Marsalis
"Blood on the Fields" CD 1705
Melinda Wagner
"Concerto for Flute" CD 1706 #1

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