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INART 55
History of Electroacoustic Music
Listening List
All listening selections may be heard online.
More information on configuring your computer for off-campus listening can be found here:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/artshumanities/mmc/vpnclient.htm
Once you are within the PSU system (either by working from on campus or from logoging on via the VPN client as described above), follow these steps:
Go to the PSU Libraries Home Page and click Course Reserves.
At the Lookup screen, type in the instructor's name ("Ballora") and click "By Instructor." Two list of reserves for the course will appear - the first contains multi-media, the second contains books. Click the first one. Scroll down to the selection "AUDIO E-RESERVE" to get to the online listening items.
If there are any problems playing the files, click the Library's technical support link.
Click here for a general listening guide for the pieces
Click on piece titles for notable characteristics of each piece.
| Title | Composer | PSU Library Call No. | Duration | |||||
| Test 1 | Ionisation (1931) | Edgard Varese (1885-1965) | MCD99-672 tk 6 | 5:27 | ||||
| Langsames Stuck und Rondo fur Trautonium (1935) | Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) | MCD02-49 tk. 1 | 5:24 | |||||
| Oraison (1937) | Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) | MCD02-185 tk 5 | 7:42 | |||||
| Valse sentimentale (recorded 1987) | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch (1840-1893) | MCD02-435 tk 1 | 2:06 | |||||
| Test 2 | Etude aux Chemins de Fer (Study in Trains) (1948) | Pierre Schaeffer (1910-95) | MCD02-83 CD1, tk 1 | 2:50 | ||||
| Sonic Contours (1952) | Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-90) | MCD92-2 tk 1 | 7:29 | |||||
| Low Speed (1952) | Otto Luening (1900-96) | MCD92-2 tk 2 | 3:48 | |||||
| Williams Mix (1953) | John Cage (1912-1992) | MCD02-435, tk 4 | 5:42 | |||||
| Gesang der Junglinge (Song of the Youths) (1955-56) | Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-) | MCD02-82 tk 4 | 13:14 | |||||
| Dripsody (1955) | Hugh LeCaine (1914-77) | MCD02-84 tk 1 | 1:28 | |||||
| Main Title from Forbidden Planet (1956) | Louis Barron (1920-1989), Bebe Barron (1927-) | MCD02-435, CD1, tk 8 | 2:19 | |||||
Thema: Omaggio a Joyce (1957) |
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) | MCD03-170 tk 1 | 6:27 | |||||
| Continuo (1958) | Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) | MCD02-347 tk. 3 | 8:15 | |||||
| Poeme Electronique (1958) | Edgard Varese (1885-1965) | MCD02-435, tk 10 | 8:00 | |||||
| Test 3 | ||||||||
| Vision and Prayer (1961) | Milton Babbitt (1916-) | MCD02-50 tk 13 | 14:31 | |||||
| Eonta (1964) | Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) | MCD02-188 tks 1, 2 | 13:17, 6:57 | |||||
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Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz (Remember What They Did to You in Auschwitz) (1965) |
Luigi Nono (1924-1990) | MCD02-85 tk 3 | 11:09 | |||||
| The Wild Bull (1968) | Morton Subotnick (1933-) | MCD02-88 tks 3, 4 | 28:10 | |||||
| Computer Suite from Little Boy (1968) | Jean-Claude Risset (1938-) | MCD02-54 tks 4-6 | 12:41 | |||||
| The Pygmy Taxi Corporation (1969) | Raymond Scott (1908-1994) | MCD02-68 CD2, tk 17 | 7:11 | |||||
| Synchronisms no. 6 (1970) | Mario Davidovsky (1934-) | MCD96-154 tk 1 | 6:59 | |||||
| Timesteps (1972) | Wendy Carlos (1939-) | MCD02-26 tk 1 | 13:50 | |||||
| Stria (1977) | John Chowning (1934-) | MCD02-53 tk 3 | 16:57 | |||||
| Seen And Not Seen (1980) | Talking Heads/Brian Eno | |||||||
| Idle Chatter (1985) | Paul Lansky (1944-) | MCD02-182 tk 1 | 9:26 | |||||
| Riverrun (1986) | Barry Truax (1947-) | MCD02-184 tk 5 | 19:42 | |||||
| Just Imaginings (1987) | Wendy Carlos (1939-) | MCD02-27 tk 4 | 12:07 | |||||
| Maritime (1991) | Robert Rowe |
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