LISTENING SELECTIONS PLAYED:

• Demonstration of harmonics, timbre, and additive synthesis
• Prokofief's Peter and the Wolf MCD04-331
  also in Penn State Electronic Holdings
• Leonard Bernstein Young People's Concerts - What Makes Music Symphonic?" MLR ML3930.A2 B48 1993 v. 2

LISTENING SELECTIONS PLAYED:

• J.S. Bach - Mass in B Minor - Crucifixus (from Credo section) - MCD03-128 (among other call nos.)
  
• Leonard Bernstein Young People's Concerts - What Makes Music Symphonic?" MLR ML3930.A2 B48 1993 v. 2

LISTENING SELECTIONS PLAYED:

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in c minor, mvmt. 1
  Library electronic resources
• Franz Liszt: Après une lecture de Dante, Fantasia quasi Sonata - MCD02-922
• Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Library electronic resources
• Claude Debussy: La Mer no. 2 - Jeux de vagues - Library electronic resources
• Leonard Bernstein Young People's Concerts - What Makes Music Symphonic?" MLR ML3930.A2 B48 1993 v. 2

LISTENING SELECTIONS PLAYED:

• Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring MMC MCD04-371
• Arnold Schoenberg - Opus 25, Opus 33a
• Futurism - MTSS 21360
• Entr'acte - MTSS 21873

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Howard Goodall's Big Bangs - MediaTech 1.52462,DV
• Edgard Varèse - Integrales, Ionisation - MMC MCD04-1099
• Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey - MMC ML1380.T54 1996 DVD
• Olivier Messiaen - Oraison - MCD02-185
• Demonstration of formants and subtractive synthesis
• Paul Hindemith - Langsames Stuck und Rondo fur Trautonium - MCD02-49

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Sound of theremin from The Green Hornet
• Electric guitar heard in Benny Goodman's "Solo Flight"
• Hammond organ blues example
• Robert Crumb NPR interview on his collection of early recordings
• John Cage - "Two Pieces," "Root of an Unfocus," "A Valentine Out of Season" - Disc M79-220
• John Cage - "Imaginary Landscape 1" - Naxos Music Library (online) HCD31844
• John Cage - "In a Landscape" - Classical Music Library (online)
• Demonstration of formants and vocal synthesis
• Examples of the voder and vocoder
• Examples of the Sonovox (or Talkbox)
  • Radio commercials for Lifebuoy Soap and BromoSeltzer
  • Sparky's Magic Piano and Sparky and the Talking Train
  • Walt Disney's Dumbo - PN1997.D83 1990
  • Peter Frampton "Do You Feel Like I Do?" - MMC MCD01-310

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• NPR History of Recorded Sound, pt. 3
• Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry - MCD02-83
  • Etude aux Chemins de Fer
  • Etude Pathetique
  • Etude Noire
  • Etude Violette
  • Etude aux Tourniquets
  • Symphonie pour un Homme Seul
• Olivier Messiaen - Modes de Valeurs et Intensités (Modes of Values and Intensities) - MCD95-275
• Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie I, Studie II - MCD02-82
• Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound - PN1997.S642 2002
• The Lost Weekend - PN1997.L748 2000
• Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey - ML1380.T54 1996

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Vladimir Ussachevsky - Sonic Contours - MCD92-2
• Otto Luening - Low Speed - MCD92-2
• Otto Luening - Fantasy in Space - MCD92-2
• John Cage - Williams Mix - MCD02-435
• Hugh Le Caine (MCD02-84)
• Dripsody
• Rhapsody in Blue
• Sugar Blues
• Sackbut String Quartet
• The Sackbut Blues
• NPR: The Barrons: Forgotten Pioneers of Electronic Music
• Children of Atlantis
• Forbidden Planet
- PN1995.9.S26F67 1999
• Alchemists of Sound

• Columbia University, Masterpieces of 20th-Century Multi-channel Tape Music: Stockhausen

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Edgard Varese - Déserts - MCD02-1181
• J.S. Bach - Chorale Prelude "Wachet Auf" - MCD89-34
• Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge - MCD98-1207
• Luciano Berio - Thema - Omaggio a Joyce - MCD03-170
• Bruno Maderna - Continuo - MDC02-347
• Henri Pousseur - Scambi - MCD02-675
• The Music of CSIRAC - ML74.4.C757D66 2005
• Lejaren Hiller - The Illiac Suite - MCD91-200

Listening Journal #4 due

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Erik Satie - Sonneries de la Rose + Croix I - MCD02-768
• Bela Bartok - Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta - MCD02-563
• Iannis Xenakis - Metastaseis, Pithoprakta - MCD02-188
• Iannis Xenakis - Concrète PH - MCD02-76
• Edgard Varèse - Poème Electronique - MCD02-435

Paper Part 1 due

Crossword Puzzle #4 due
Extra Credit Listening Journal due

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Milton Babbitt - Ensembles for Synthesizer - Disc M89-137
• Bülent Arel - Postlude from "Music for a Sacred Service"
• NPR on Oskar Sala and the Trautonium
• The Birds - PN1997.B54 2001 DVD
• Selections from The historical CD of digital sound synthesis - MCD02-80:
  • Newman Guttman - In a Silver Scale
  • Newman Guttman - Pitch Variations
  • Max Mathews - Numerology
  • Max Mathews, arr. - Bicycle Built for Two
• Jean Claude Risset - Sud - MCD05-41

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• John Cage - Music for Piano No. 52-56 - MCD99-676
• John Cage - Concert for Piano and Orchestra - MCD04-70
• John Cage - Indeterminacy 4
• David Tudor - Rainforest - MCD02-435
• David Tudor - Anima Pepsi
• Fluxfilm Anthology - PN1997.A1F48 1997
• Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly - MCD02-435
• La Monte Young - 31 | 69 C. 12:17:33-12:25:33 PM NYC - MCD02-435
• Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach - MCD90-201
• Terry Riley - In C - MCD91-252
• Steve Reich - Come Out - MCD99-681
• Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room - MCD91-435
• John Cage performs "Water Walk" on television

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Milton Babbitt:
  • Vision and Prayer - MCD02-50
  • Philomel - MCD96-221
• Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 6 - MCD96-154
• Pierre Henry - Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir - MCD02-192
• Iannis Xenakis - Eonta - MCD02-188
• Gyorgi Ligeti - Atmospheres - MCD02-983
• Gyorgi Ligeti - Lux Aeterna - MCD04-1016
• Demonstration of auditory gestalt principles
• James Tenney - M1473.T35S3 1992
  • Analog #1 (Noise Study)
  • Dialog
  • Phases
  • Ergodos II

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Luigi Nono:
  • Liebeslied - MCD91-138
  • Omaggio a Vedova - MCD02-86
  • La Barrica Illuminata - MCD02-85
  • Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz - MCD02-85
  • Per Bastiana - MCD02-86
  • La fabbrica illuminata - MCD02-85
• Amplitude and Ring Modulation demos
• Karlheinz Stockhausen:
  • Kontakte - MCD02-82
  • Telemusik - MCD02-81
  • Hymnen - MCD02-165

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• The Beatles:
  • Tomorrow Never Knows
  • Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
  • Revolution 9
  • I Want You (She's So Heavy)
  • Here Comes the Sun
• Charles Wuorinen - Time's Encomium - MCD99-554
• Charles Wuorinen New York Times interview
• Music Meets the Computer - Max Mathews and John Chowning (Google Video)
• Jean-Claude Risset - Fall from Little Boy - MCD02-54
• FM synthesis demonstrations
• John Chowning - MCD02-53:
  • Sabelithe
  • Turenas
  • Stria

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Jean-Claude Risset - Mutations - MCD05-410
• John Chowning - Stria - MCD02-53
• Emmanuel Ghent - Phosphones - MCD02-654
• Laurie Spiegel - Appalachian Groove - MCD02-435
• Iannis Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha - MCD02-186
• Barry Truax - Riverrun - MCD02-184
• Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman
• Steve Miller Band - Threshold, Jet Airliner
• Donna Summer - I Feel Love
• Kraftwerk - The Robots
• Brian Eno - Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
• David Bowie - Heroes
• Mean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe

Paper Parts 1 and 2 due

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Salvatore Martirano - Look at the Back of My Head for a While - MCD02-48
• Joel Chadabe
  • Follow Me Softly - MCD02-342
  • Modalities - MCD98-1217
• Morton Subotnick
  • Liquid Strata - MCD99-673
  • Trembling - MCD98-1215
• Pierre Boulez - Repons - MCD99-795
• Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivo Voco - MCD02-343
• John Chowning
  • Vocal synthesis demonstration
  • Phone - MCD02-53
• Charles Dodge - Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental - MCD98-1281
• Paul Lansky - Idle Chatter - MCD02-182
• Apple Computer's 1984 ad
• Stevie Wonder on The Cosby Show
• Chick Corea Electrik Band:
  • No Zone
  • King Cockroach
• Michael Jackson - Liberian Girl

Listening Journal #8 due

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Gustav Mahler - Second Symphony, movement 3
- MCD04-996
• Luciano Berio - Sinfonia, movement 3
- MCD86-13
• Talking Heads/Brian Eno - MCD04-208:
  • Seen and Not Seen
  • Once in a Lifetime
• John Zorn - MCD98-460:
  • Hemachatus Haemachatus
  • Hydrophiidae
  • Ngu Sam Liem
  • Laticauda Laticauda
• Wendy Carlos - Just Imaginings - MCD02-27
• Gary Lee Nelson - Fractal Mountains - MCD02-55
• Robert Rowe - Maritime - MCD00-371

Crossword Puzzle #8 due
 

LISTENING SELECTIONS:

• Modulations - M1473.M63 1998 DVD

Listening Journal #9 due