Concert Music after 1945

Department - COMP
Offered - Fall, Spring
Course number - LHAN-261

A survey course offering an overview of musical trends that have dominated concert music since World War II, with emphasis on symphonic and chamber music. Recent trends including minimalism, post-Webern serialism, chance and indeterminacy, electronic music, world music, neoromanticism, avant-garde experimentalism, multimedia, and others will be discussed. Pieces by composers John Adams, Takemitsu, Stockhausen, Penderecki, Schnittke, Torke, Cage, Feldman, Harbison, Xenakis, Reich, and others will be studied and analyzed.

Credits: 2
Course Chair: Arnold Friedman
Prerequisites: ET-111 and either HR-111 or PW-111
Required of: None
Electable by: All