Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Welcome & Reading List

Welcome to the blog for Brown's Spring Semester Music class!

Here is a place where we can further discuss the concepts, examples, and iterations for the advanced play writing class taught by Lisa D'Amour.

The reading list for our class is as follows:

*This is Your Brain on Music
by Daniel Levitin
Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music by Elliot Schwarz
*Talking Music by Willian Duckworth
All American Music by John Rockwell
The Classical Style by Charles Rosen
*The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Ornette Coleman: A Harmelodic Life by John Litweiler
*Style and Idea by Arnold Schoenburg
Fundamentals of Music Composition by Arnold Shoenburg
*Give My Regards to Eight Street by Morton Feldman
Philosphy of New Music by Theodor Adorno
*Essays on Music by Theodor Adorno
*Empty Words by John Cage

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