Useful information for students:
Classtimes
12:30-1:45 Tuesday and Friday (Contemporary Music II) [click for syllabus]
Office hours
TBA
Useful links to composer organizations:
Society of Composers Incorporated
Asian Composers League
International Society of Contemporary Music
Finding Scores Online:
Issuu
Scribd (need membership, but worth it)
ScorSer (available in other languages too)
Boosey & Hawkes (need to create free account to view online--but legal!)
Schirmer OnDemand (actually just an extension of Issuu)
YouTube (contains many scrolling scores)
Advanced Orchestration: (guest lecture)
From Eclectic Maximalist to Spectral-Minimal Fusionist
My techniques of orchestration
Michael Sidney Timpson
get all materials by clicking here
Orchestration and Extended Techniques Websites: (click on title for the link)
The Orchestra: A User's Manual
Modern Cello Techniques
Extended Techniques for the flute
Level 1 composition examples:
Variations--
Stravinsky, "Octet" mvt. II
Stravinsky, "Sonata for Two Pianos" mvt. II
Copland, "Piano Variations"
Hindemith, "Turandot" mvt. II of Symphonic Metamorphosis
Webern, "Symphony", mvt. II
Crumb, "Vox Balaenae" , mvt. II
[note that variations also refer to other movements too.)
Lutoslawski, Paganini variations
Albright, "Clarinet Quintet", mvt. II
[note that first movement provides material for second movement]
Schnittke, Variations on a Chord
Miniatures--
Bartok, Bagatelles (1908)
Schoenberg, Six Little Piano Pieces (1911)
Schoenberg, Suite for piano
Prokofiev, Sarcasms (1912-14)
Scriabin, Five Preludes (1914)
Debussy, Etudes (1915)
Cowell, Four Encores to Dynamic Motion (1917)
Shostakovich, Aphorisms (1927)
Ruggles, Evocations (1937-43)
Dallapiccola, Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952)
Ligeti, Etudes: Book 1 (1985)
Ligeti, Musica Ricercata
Webern, Bagatelles for String Quartet
Gershwin, Three Preludes
12:30-1:45 Tuesday and Friday (Contemporary Music II) [click for syllabus]
Office hours
TBA
Useful links to composer organizations:
Society of Composers Incorporated
Asian Composers League
International Society of Contemporary Music
Finding Scores Online:
Issuu
Scribd (need membership, but worth it)
ScorSer (available in other languages too)
Boosey & Hawkes (need to create free account to view online--but legal!)
Schirmer OnDemand (actually just an extension of Issuu)
YouTube (contains many scrolling scores)
Advanced Orchestration: (guest lecture)
From Eclectic Maximalist to Spectral-Minimal Fusionist
My techniques of orchestration
Michael Sidney Timpson
get all materials by clicking here
Orchestration and Extended Techniques Websites: (click on title for the link)
The Orchestra: A User's Manual
Modern Cello Techniques
Extended Techniques for the flute
Level 1 composition examples:
Variations--
Stravinsky, "Octet" mvt. II
Stravinsky, "Sonata for Two Pianos" mvt. II
Copland, "Piano Variations"
Hindemith, "Turandot" mvt. II of Symphonic Metamorphosis
Webern, "Symphony", mvt. II
Crumb, "Vox Balaenae" , mvt. II
[note that variations also refer to other movements too.)
Lutoslawski, Paganini variations
Albright, "Clarinet Quintet", mvt. II
[note that first movement provides material for second movement]
Schnittke, Variations on a Chord
Miniatures--
Bartok, Bagatelles (1908)
Schoenberg, Six Little Piano Pieces (1911)
Schoenberg, Suite for piano
Prokofiev, Sarcasms (1912-14)
Scriabin, Five Preludes (1914)
Debussy, Etudes (1915)
Cowell, Four Encores to Dynamic Motion (1917)
Shostakovich, Aphorisms (1927)
Ruggles, Evocations (1937-43)
Dallapiccola, Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952)
Ligeti, Etudes: Book 1 (1985)
Ligeti, Musica Ricercata
Webern, Bagatelles for String Quartet
Gershwin, Three Preludes