Experimental Music Post-Cage II

This class will deal with the explosion of
experimental music in the mid-20th century to the
1990s. Experimental
music will be explored as more a method or set of
approaches to creating music than as a genre. We
will, over the course of two semesters, look at
music by people born between 1926 and 1945, and
try to follow trajectories in that incredibly
wide-ranging repertoire. A tentative list of
musicians covered (in one to two week units) will
be:
Morton Feldman (1926), Ben Johnston (1926), Cecil
Taylor (1929), Robert Ashley (1930), Ornette
Coleman
(1930), Pauline Oliveros (1930), Alvin Lucier
(1931), Eliane Radigue (1932), James Tenney
(1934), Christian
Wolff (1934), Alice Coltrane (1937), Art Ensemble
of Chicago (Joseph Jarman (1937), Roscoe Mitchell
(1940)),
Maryanne Amacher (1938), Annea Lockwood (1939),
Julius Eastman (1940), Keith Rowe (1940), Wadada
Leo
Smith (1941), George Clinton (1941), Meredith Monk
(1942) and Anthony Braxton (1945). There will be
weekly
listening and reading assignments and at the end
of each semester a project based on the work of
one of the
musicians studied.