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Ravel (1875– 1937
Listening:
Miroirs (1904–5)
Noctuelles
Oiseaux tristes
Une barque sur l’ocean
Alborada del graçioso
La vallée des cloches
Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)
Thibaudet
Reading:
Arbie Orenstein: “Ravel’s Creative Process.” The Music Quarterly, Vol 53, No. 4 (October, 1967), pp. 467-481
New Directions: Satie (1866–1925); Cowell (1897–1965) ; Berg (1885–1935), Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)
Listening:
Trois Gymnopedies (1888):
Gnossienne No. 1 (1890)
Embryons desseches (1913)
d’Holothurie
d’Edriophthalma
de Podophthalma
Pontinen
The Tides of Manaunaun (1912)
The Banshee (1925)
Study in Mixed Accents (1930)
Cowell
Berg: Sonata for Piano, op.1 (1907–8) [LINK TO SCORE]
Gould
Reading:
Eric Jensen: “Satie and the ‘Gymnopedie‘”. ML 75/2, 1994, pp. 236–240
Richard Steinbach: “Henry Cowell: Sound Explorations”. PQ 144 1988-89. pp. 28–37
Allen Forte: “Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op. 1: A Landmark in Early Twentieth-Century Music.” Music Analysis, Vol. 26, No. 1/2 (Mar. – Jul., 2007), pp. 15-24
David Nicholls: Ruth Crawford Seeger: An Introduction. The Musical Times, Vol. 124, No. 1685, Anglo-American Issue (Jul., 1983), pp. 421+423-425
David Cartledge 