Marginal success today. I completed my Haydn paper bibliography over the weekend, as well as read up on early symphony (Sammartini, Stamitz, CPE Bach, etc.) over the weekend. We discussed those in 604 today.
I also read an excellent article from Perspectives of New Music about John Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra. (Pritchett, James. "From Choice to Change: John Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano." Perspectives of New Music 26 (Winter, 1988): 50-81.) I listened to two works by Feldman as well as Cage's concerto. We discussed those works in class today.
Further reading was done in Von Gunden's book. I'm now considering writing a short paper for 20th-century Counterpoint on Oliveros's early works. But perhaps new textural habits will come to be seen as I continue in the book.
Translated German for 1 hour. Goethe poetry.
Read part of the chapter on the Growth Process in LaRue's Guidelines.
Finally, I spent some time composing a piece I'm going to call Boomerang. It's just a pointillistic piece. Not serial at all, but it will have some symmetry in it if I can get the patterns down the way I want them to sound. Writing "melodies" in this kind of music is pretty much impossible (as was discussed in class today), so I need to sort of come to conclusions by trial and error. I'll probably write a post about the experience once it's finished.
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