Monday, September 26: Exam 1. This takes place in class, during our regularly scheduled class meeting.
Wednesday: 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
David Cartledge 