STRAVINSKY SEMINAR (2003)

Prof. Anne Boyd {AB} & Dr. Ian Shanahan {IS}

A. Synopsis Fridays 10.0011.30 am

Week 1 (1 August): Orientation and Introduction {IS}

Weeks 24 (8, 15, 22 August): The young Prince Igor Stravinskys Early Work {IS}

Weeks 59 (29 August, 5, 12, 19, 26 September): Neoclassical Stravinsky {AB & IS}
Week 5: Links to Old Russia Les Noces {AB}
Week 6: Old and New in The Soldiers Tale {AB}
Week 7: Overwriting the Past Pulcinella and Symphonies of Wind Instruments {AB}
Week 8: A Garland of Symphonies Symphony in C and Symphony in three movements {AB}
Week 9: Works for all time Symphony of Psalms and Mass {IS}

Weeks 1013* (10, 17*, 24, 31 October): Stravinsky Under Orders the late, serial works {IS}
* Since I (IS) will be graduating on 17 October, Weeks 1113 may need to be postponed by a week; Ill let you know in
due course.

B. Assessment

1. 3000-word essay (see separate sheet) 65%

2. 10-minute presentation 25%
3. class participation 10%

C. Bibliography A Supplement

ED. BORETZ, BENJAMIN and CONE, EDWARD T.: Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, Revised edition,
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1972.

COX, DAVID HAROLD: Geometric Structures in Varses Arcana, The Music Review Vol.52 No.4, November
1991, pp.246254.

FORTE, ALLEN: The Structure of Atonal Music, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., 1973.

LAMBERT, CONSTANT: Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline, 4th edition, The Hogarth Press, London, 1985.

ED. LANG, PAUL HENRY: Stravinsky: A New Appraisal of his Work, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York,
1963.

ROUTH, FRANCIS: Stravinsky, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1977.

SMYTH, DAVID: Stravinskys Second Crisis: Reading the Early Serial Sketches, Perspectives of New Music
Vol.37 No.2, Summer 1999, pp.117146.

STRAUS, JOSEPH N.: Stravinskys Late Music, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2001.

VLAD, ROMAN (English translation by Frederick Fuller): Stravinsky, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
England, 1978.

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