TRANSFORMATION

 

Messiaen - Class Notes

Biography 

R AH R R R      R MESSIAEN 

Olivier MessiaenThe Technique of  my Musical Language, 14-15 

Claude Samuel.  Conversations with Olivier Messiaen:  91-94 

Others:   Peter Franklin, "Modernism...," 143-162 

MUSIC:  Quartet for the End of Time

MUSIC:  Sept Haiku

Indian Influences

Ravi Shankar

R. D. Morris: "Aspects of Confluence between Western Art Music and Ethnomusicology," in E. W. Marvin and R. Hermann. eds.. Concert .Music, Rock, and Jazz since 1941:  Essays and. Analytical Studies (Rochester. NY. 1995). 53‑64 .

Beatles - Class Notes

Exotic:  Mervyn Cooke, “’The East in the West’:  Evocations of the Gamelan in Western Music,” 292-306 

Charles Bower Price.  “Sources of American Styles in the Music of the Beatles.”  American Music 15:2 (Summer 1997), 208-232

P. Hayward, ed.: Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post‑War Popular Music (Sydney, 1999)

MUSIC:  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "Within you, without you" 

East Asia...

Locating East Asia in Western Art Music.  Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau, eds.  Middletown, CN:  Wesleyan University Press, ©2004.

Yayoi Uno Everett in Locating East Asia in Western Art Music, Introduction, xviii

David Pacun.  “’Thus we cultivate our own world, and thus we share it with others’:  Kósçak Yamada’s Visit to the United States in 1918-1919.”  American Music 24:1 (Spring 2006), 67-94. 

Tan Dun  Biography Composer Essay

East Asia...

Zorn

... Forms, Finding the Orient

East Asia...

Henry Cowell Biography 

East Asia...

Chou

East Asia...

Takemitsu

Steven Nuss.  Hearing ‘Japanese”, Hearing Takemitsu.”  Contemporary Music Review,  21:4 (December 2002),  35-71.

East Asia...

Gamelan

Neil Sorrel.  “Gamelan:  Occident or Accident.”  Musical Times 133:1788 (February 1992), 66-68.

Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman.  “Lou Harrison and the American Gamelan.”  American Music, 17:2 (Summer 1999), 146-78.

Japan

W. Anthony Shepherd.  “Representing the Authentic:  Tak Shindo’s ‘Exotic Sound’ and Japanese American History.”  Echo:  A Music-Centered Journal  6:2 (Fall 2004), http://www.echo.uncla.edu/volume6-issue2/shepherd/shepherd1.html 

Liane Hansen and William Wong. “Commentary:  How Asians Have Become Members of American Society.”  NPR.  4/1/2001.  http://nl.newsband.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=0F56F92AA760F455&p_docn...  See link in Blackboard

Cage - Class Notes Class Notes  WebPage, AH

East Asia...

Others:  John Corbett, “Experimental Oriental,” 163-83 

Exotic:  Mervyn Cooke, “’The East in the West’:  Evocations of the Gamelan in Western Music,”  268-80 

Stretch,  101.    John Cage:  The Perpetual Process of Artistic Discovery, 429-33;  John Cage,  “The Future of Music:  Credo” (1937, PUB. 1961), 430;  John Cage, from “Composition”  (1952), 431 

Wilfrid Mellers.  “Percussion in the New-Old World.  There Was a Mid-century Percussive Revolution in Western Music, American Composers Had Much to Do with It.”  The Musical Times, 133:1795 (Sep. 1992), 445-447.

MUSIC:  Sonatas and Interludes, Sonata V

Minimalism - Class Notes

REICH:  Biography,WebPage

  

MUSIC:  Reich, Clapping Music

Reich.  Writings on Music , 28-37

Karen Rochelle Liu.  The Influence of Ewe Music on Steve Reich’s Drumming.”  MA Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2002.

Pyramids,   "Primitivism Revisited,"  208-212. 

Stretch,  110.   

Minimalism and Beyond:  Philip Glass, from Interview by William Duckworth (1995), 468; 

John Adams, from Interview by Reinder Pols (1991), 469

MUSIC:  RC 3:18  Philip Glass, Einstein at the Beach, 1976

Benjamin Britten

P. Brett: "Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas," in P. Brett, E. Wood and G. C. Thomas, eds., Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology (New York, 1994), 235‑56

 Oliveros

Voracious Muse:  Oliveros, 69-104

Jarrett

Gernot Blume.  "Blurred affinities:  tracing the influence of North Indian classical music in Keith Jarrett's solo piano improvisations."  Popular Music  22:2 (May 2003), 117-142.

Robin Lynam.  “Keith Jarrett” review of CD.  South China Morning Post, July 3, 2005

John Rockwell.  “New-Age Music Searches for its Proper Niche.”  The New York Times, June 22, 1986, Sunday, Late City Final Edition, Section 2; Page 25, Column 1; Arts and Leisure Desk.