Course Title:
Music History II (Contemporary Music)
Code:
TA-3014
Short Description:
Wagner and Tonal Complexity.
Debussy and the Different Proposal, Impressionism.
Second Viennese School, Schönberg, Berg, Webern, Expressionism.
Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring.
Futurism. Russolo and the Emancipation of Noise.
Schönberg and Twelve-Tone Method.
Neoclassicism.
Adorno and the Frankfurt School.
Ives, Cowell, Varèse, and the Emergence of America.
Cold War, Socialist Realism and Formalism. Messiaen.
Total Serialism, Darmstad, Boulez, Stockhousen.
Schaeffer, Musique Concrète.
Cage, Random Processes, Indeterminacy, Improvisation.
Cologne Studio, Electronic Music.
America, Computer Music.
Xenakis, Art and Science Alloys.
60s, Freedom and Utopia.
Minimalism, Post-Modernism.
Multimedia, Installations.
Acoustic Ecology, Soundscape Compositions, Field Recording, Sound Art.
Literature:
1. Eric Saltsman, Twentieth Century Music, Nefeli, Athens 1983
2. Paul Griffiths, Mondern Music, Zacharopoulos, Athens 1993
3. Ulrich Michels, Atlas of Music, volume ΙΙ, F. Nakas, Athens 1995
Course Assessment:
Lectures, Discussions, Final Examination.
ECTS
5
Professor:
Dr Kostas Paparrigopoulos (kpapa@staff.teicrete.gr)
