M544 Week 9 (Week of October 21)

MONDAY: MIDTERM EXAM

WEDNESDAY: Later Virtuosi:  Busoni(1866–1924); Godowsky (1870–1938)

Listening:

Godowksy:  Studies on Chopin Etudes (1894-1914) [LINK TO SHEET MUSIC]

No. 18 (on Op10 No. 9: F minor)
No. 24 (on Op. 25 No. 1: A-flat Major, 2nd version)
No. 47 (on Op. 10 No. 5 and Op. 25 No. 9: G-flat Major)
No. 48 (on Op. 10 No. 11 and Op. 25 No. 3: F Major)

Hamelin

Bach/Busoni: Organ Chorale Preludes: (1907–9)

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland [SHEET MUSIC]
Nun freut euch, liebe Christen
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme  [SHEET MUSIC]

Chiu

Reading: 

Isabelle Bélance-Zank: “The ‘three-hand’ texture:  origins and use”.  JALS 38 Jul–Dec 1995, pp. 99–121
Online Grove, article entitled Pianoforte, section II [all chapters], and the article Keyboard Music, Section III, chapters 3–6. 
Marc-André Roberge: “The Busoni network and the art of creative transcription”.  CMR 11/1, 1991, pp. 68–88