[8] November 14 — Modern music: Atonality, ahistoricism, atavism
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
V. G. Karatygin, "The Rite of Spring" (1914), Izbrannye stat'i (1965), from Russians on Russian Music, 1880-1917: An anthology, ed. Stuart Campbell (2003), 213–219.
Leon Botstein, "Schoenberg and the audience: Modernism, music, and politics in the twentieth century," including an excerpt from Karol Szymanowski's "On the question of 'contemporary music'," from Schoenberg and His World, ed. Walter Frisch (1999), 19–54.
Go to music module "Experimentation and history".
Further reading:
Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (1996).
Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically (1997).
Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music, vol. 4 (2010).
Robert W. Wason, Viennese Harmonic Theory from Albrechtsberger to Schenker and Schoenberg (1985).
Image: Vasily Kandinsky, "Image III (Concert)" (1911).