Music Appreciation - Spring 2021
Thursdays, 7-8 PM via Zoom
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Week 1: The Tone Poem (February 4th)
Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra (1896)
Week 2: The Orchestral Suite (February 11th)
Mussorgsky-Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition (1874/1922)
Week 3: French Impressionism (February 18th)
Ravel, Suite No. 2 from “Daphnis and Chloe” (1912)
Debussy, String Quartet in g minor (1893)
Fauré, Après un rêve (After a Dream) (1878)
Week 4: The Woman Composer (February 25th)
Hildegard von Bingen, O tu suavissima virga (1140 - ca. 1179)
Clara Schumann, Piano trio in g minor (1846)
Price, Symphony no. 1 in e minor (1932)
Week 5: American Music—Jazz and Popular Song in the Early 20th Century (March 11th)
Lopez-Nunez, Livery Stable Blues (1917)
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
Week 6: American Music—The Classical Genre in the 20th Century (March 18th)
Copland, Appalachian Spring Suite (1944)
Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” (1960)
Week 7: The Avant-Garde (March 25th)
Crumb, Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (1971)
Week 8: From the North—Myth, Hope, and Rebirth (April 1st)
Grieg, In the Hall of the Mountain King (1875)