Music and Choreography - DANCE 3530 / MUSIC 3513 - Fall 2010 Syllabus
Cornell University
Revised August 25, 2010
Instructor: Allen Fogelsanger
Department of Theatre, Film & Dance
Course Objectives
Course Requirements
Bibliography
Meeting Time: TR 11:40-12:55
Lincoln 124 & Schwartz SB10
COUNTERPOINT IN MUSIC
- Thursday, August 26: Introduction; Dunn's principles of analysis; Polyphony
- In-class audio:
- Léonin: Viderunt omnes, Cox CD 8830 disc 1 track 1.
- examples drawn from the Central African Republic, Estonia, 12th-century France, Korea, India, Uganda (Cox Videotape 443 v.1, #16-17, 38:33-45:37), and by Laurie Anderson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Fréderic Chopin, and Randolph Hostetler.
- Tuesday, August 31: Polyphony continued
- Reading assignment:
- 1. Dunn:
Evaluating Choreography.
- 2. Bélec:
Dunn's Major Influences,
The Principle of Contrast,
and Movement Phrasing.
- 3. Arom:
A Classification of African Polyphonies.
- 4. Carter:
String Quartet No. 2 (1959).
- 5. Schiff:
Quartet No. 2.
- Listening assignment:
- Carter: String Quartet No. 2 [23:17], Cox CD 1735 disc 1 tracks 6-14.
- In-class audio & video:
- examples continue from Thursday.
- Thursday, September 2: Different polyphonies
- Reading assignment:
- 6. Quint:
Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music.
- 7. Tick:
Analysis by Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Third and Fourth Movements....
- 8. Crawford: Excerpt from String Quartet 1931.
- 9. Pareles:
Shedding the Weight of Theory.
- 10. Conrad:
Three Women (Sound Museum 1) / Hidden Man (Sound Museum 2).
- 11. Seymour:
Coleman Gets a Resounding Honor.
- 12. Cage & Schöning: Excerpt from
Laughtears: Conversation on Roaratorio.
- 13. Perloff:
Music for Words Perhaps: Reading/Hearing/Seeing John Cage's Roaratorio.
- 14. Cage:
... Circus On ... : Means for translating a book into a performance....
- 15. Joyce: Excerpt from Finnegans Wake.
- Listening assignment:
- Crawford Seeger: String Quartet [10:06], Cox CD 2169 tracks 5-8.
- Coleman:
What Reason
[4:58], track 4 from Three Women, Cox CD 5090.
- Coleman:
Monsieur Allard
[2:56], track 2 from Hidden Man, Cox CD 5091.
- Coleman:
Monsieur Allard
[2:47], track 2 from Three Women, Cox CD 5090.
- Coleman:
Sound Museum
[6:17], track 1 from Hidden Man, Cox CD 5091.
- Cage: Part One (to Line 220) [26:46] of Roaratorio, Cox CD 4833 disc 1 track 1.
- In-class video:
- Suber: Bad Timing, 3rd-4th movements, Dance Program videotape of Dance '92
- Cage: selections from Indeterminacy and Roaratorio, Cox Videotape 139 v.1, 0:00-6:40 and 42:35-53:38
- Tuesday, September 7: Discussion of music
- DUE: Music Analysis Presentation. Choose one of the
1-minute counterpoint pieces
linked to in the Music for Choreography
folder found under the Assignments
heading to the left. Analyze it using ideas from readings and class. Come to class ready to discuss it. Make sure the piece is under 1-minute counterpoint pieces
and not under Other 1-minute pieces.
COUNTERPOINT IN DANCE
- Thursday, September 9: Balanchine and music
- DUE: Paper #1. 5-8 pages, hard copy only. E-mail copies will be penalized 2 points. Late papers will be penalized 2 points (out of 100) per day.
- Compare and contrast your choice of two of the four musical works linked to below. Your analysis should be shaped by the discussions from class, and in particular by the questions posed by Robert Ellis Dunn, and may include considerations of the following sorts: How many instruments are there? Are any combined in one or more groups? How unified are such groups? How many independent sound lines are present? What are their relationships? Is any dominant? Which, if any, are in the foreground and which, if any, are in the background? Do the relationships change in time? How many sections are there in the work? What is the work's overall quality? Give some description of the music under consideration, including some specific details and examples. Assume the reader has not heard the music about which you write.
- Bartók, Béla:
Pihenö (Relaxation)
[4:04] from Contrasts, from CD 1855
- Carter, Elliott: Esprit Rude / Esprit Doux [4:38] , from CD 1777
- Coleman, Ornette, and Metheny, Pat:
Song X Duo
[3:10], from the album Song X, AF22480-07
- Ustvolskaya, Galina: third movement of Composition No. 1 [4:09], from CD 5871
- In-class video:
- Music Dances: Balanchine Choreographs Stravinsky, excerpt 45:33-1:34:40, Cox Videotape 594
- Tuesday, September 14: Music, dance and film
- Reading assignment:
- 16. Joseph:
Unity and Balance in Stravinsky Violin Concerto.
- Viewing assignment:
- Balanchine: Stravinsky Violin Concerto [36:17], Cox DVD 121
- In-class viewing:
- Forsythe and Caspersen: From a Classical Position, Cox DVD 563 (music: Thom Willems)
- Thursday, September 16: Polyphony in dance, opera, musical theatre and film
- Reading assignment:
- 17. Copeland:
Backlash Against Balanchine.
- 18. Cunningham:
Diary of a Cunningham Dance.
- 19. Vaughan:
Channels/Inserts: Cunningham and Atlas (Continued).
- 20. Kisselgoff:
Dance: World Premiere of a Cunningham Work.
- 21. Maskey: excerpt (
Merce Cunningham
).
- 22. Anderson:
Film: Merce Cunningham Choreographs a Dance Movie.
- 23. Anderson: excerpt from
The Dance: 'Channels/Inserts'.
- 24. Kisselgoff:
Review/Dance: Liveliness of Film, but Onstage.
- 25. Edwards: excerpt from Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds.
- 26. Hepokoski: excerpt from Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff.
- Viewing assignment:
- Verdi: Falstaff, Act II, Scene ii, Cox DVD 150, 56:00-1:16:00
- Bernstein: West Side Story,
Tonight,
Cox Videotape 158, 1:36:40-1:40:20
- Figgis: Time Code, excerpt, Cox Videotape 538, 30:30-43:00
- In-class video:
- Cunningham: Channels/Inserts, Cox Videotape 464, 33:24-1:02:44 (music: Phonemes by David Tudor)
- Friday, September 17, 8:00 pm: Barnes Auditorium.
Cultural Fusion,
blending Indian classical and American contemporary jazz styles, features guest sitarist Sandip Burman with pianist John Stetch, bassist Nicholas Walker, trumpeter Paul Merrill, and Rick Huyge on alto sax.
First of six music concerts of which attendance at two is required.
- Tuesday, September 21: Multimedia
- Reading assignment:
- 27. Cook, Nicholas.
Credit Where It's Due: Madonna's 'Material Girl'.
- Viewing assignment:
- Madonna:
Material Girl
, Cox Videotape 237, 12:59-17:40
- In-class videos:
- excerpt from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Olin Videodisc 692
- excerpt from Moulin Rouge, Cox Videodisc 307
- music videos suggested by students
- Thursday, September 23: Two uses of music, two uses of dance
- Reading assignment:
- 28. Copeland:
Fatal Abstraction.
- 29. Broadhurst:
Tanztheater: a dancing across margins.
- 30. Preston:
Echoes and Pre-Echoes.
- 31. Purcell: Music score of
Dido's Lament.
- Viewing assignment:
- Morris: Dido and Aeneas, excerpt (
Dido's Lament
), 44:50-49:15 within Ch. 7, Cox DVD 3
- In-class videos:
- Bausch: Cafe Müller, excerpt 20:20-25:25, Dance Program VT
- Tharp: In the Upper Room, introduction 0:20-3:33, Dance Program VT 155;
- Cunningham: Sounddance, Cox Videotape 454, 17:23-23:23 (music: Burdocks by Christian Wolff);
- Cunningham: Sounddance, Cox Videotape 453, 43:28-50:10 (music: Rainforest by David Tudor)
- Sunday, September 26, 8:00 pm: Barnes Auditorium. South Asia Program and SPICMACAY present Vishwa Mohan Bhattt, a classical Hindustani musician, with tabla player Subhen Chatterjee.
Second of six music concerts of which attendance at two is required.
- Tuesday, September 28: Discussion of choreography
- MEET IN SCHWARTZ SB10
- DUE: Choreography Presentation. Make a dance to one of the works linked to under either
1-minute counterpoint pieces
or Other 1-minute pieces
in the Music for Choreography
folder found under the Assignments
heading to the left. You may use any number of dancers, and you may be one of the dancers, or not. The choreography will be graded on the thoughtfulness of its connection with the music.
THE NATURAL
- Thursday, September 30: Breath, voices and noises
- Reading assignment:
- 32. Otake interviewed by Morgenroth: excerpt from
Eiko Otake
- 33. Takemitsu:
My Perception of Time in Traditional Japanese Music
- 34. Kikkawa:
The Musical Sense of the Japanese
- 35. Tann:
Coming to Terms: (Futaiken) Reibo
- pp. 56-68 optional
- 36. Fogelsanger: notes on Tann's
Coming to Terms: (Futaiken) Reibo
- 37. Morton:
Luciano Berio
- 38. Amirkhanian:
Pâte de Pas de voix
- 39. Gosfield: from CD liner notes to Tzadik 7069: Gosfield: Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
- Listening assignment:
- Kurosawa: (Futaiken) Reibo [10:37] Cox CD 2969
- García Guzmán: La Doctrina de los Ciclos [8:55] Cox CD 10541
- Gubaidulina: De profundis [11:31] Cox CD 5161
- Berio: Sequenza III [8:49], sung by Cathy Berberian, Cox CD 6238
- Berberian: Stripsody [4:33] Cox CD 5113
- Amirkhanian: Pas de voix [16:35] Cox CD 2970
- Gosfield:
Puncher--The Product of Force and Motion--Pipes
[11:06] from EWA7, Cox CD 10672
- optional: Satoh: Birds in Warped Time II [11:03] Cox Rec 3.1 S255
- optional: Varèse: Density 21.5 [4:10] Cox CD 2395
- optional: Ligeti: Sonata for Solo Viola [23:29] Cox CD 6932
- optional: Berio: Sequenza III [8:16], sung by Luisa Castellani, Cox CD 8215
- Viewing assignment:
- Stomp Out Loud, excerpt 26:07-39:09, Cox Videotape 516
- In-class video:
- Eiko and Koma's Land, excerpt 6:58-30:42 (music: Robert Mirabel and Reynold Lujan), Cox Videotape 494
- Saturday, October 2, 8:00 pm: Barnes Auditorium. Guest ensemble: Continuum; Joel Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer, co-directors. Features the premieres of Roberto Sierra's Sonata para violin y piano and a trio by graduate composer Peter Fahey.
Third of six music concerts of which attendance at two is required.
- Tuesday, October 5: Organized sounds
- Reading assignment:
- 40. Ligeti:
States, Events, Transformations
- 41. Varèse:
The Liberation of Sound
- 42. Scott: from CD liner notes to New Albion 028: Austral Voices
- 43. Czernowin and Takasugi: from CD liner notes to Mode 77: Czernowin: Afatsim
- Listening assignment:
- Ligeti: Apparitions [8:35] Cox CD 10653
- Varèse: Poem electronique [8:02] Cox CD 9026
- Lamb: Journeys on the Winds of Time I [12:14] Cox CD 9715
- Czernowin: Afatsim [9:36] Cox CD 10540
- Merzbow (Masami Akita):
Minotauros
[7:23] from Tauromachine (Release Records 6989)
- optional: Ligeti: Atmosphères [9:02] Cox CD 2376
- optional: Varèse: Ionisation [5:51] Cox CD 2395
- optional: Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, Cox CD 6932
- optional: Webern: Six Bagatelles [3:57] Cox CD 826
- optional: Kurtág: String Quartet, Op. 1 [15:34] Cox CD 6874
- optional: Kurtág: Microludes, Op. 13 [10:21] Cox CD 6874
- Viewing assignment:
- Kubrick: 2001, excerpt 1:57:00-2:11:27 (music: Ligeti), Cox DVD 146
SIMPLICITY
- Thursday, October 7: Minimal sound and minimal art
- Reading assignment:
- 44. Johnson:
Rothko Chapel and Rothko's Chapel
- pp. 16-23 & 37 optional
- 45. Fogelsanger: summary of analysis in Johnson's
Rothko Chapel and Rothko's Chapel
- 46. Schmidt:
Through the Walls
- 47. Bryars: from CD liner notes to Point 438-823-2: Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
- Listening assignment:
- Feldman: Rothko Chapel [24:01] Cox CD 2126
- Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, beginning section [27:05] Cox CD 3129
- Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel [8:16] Cox CD 12334
- Pärt: Für Alina [3:21] Cox CD 12350
- Pärt: Sarah Was Ninety Years Old [25:28] Cox CD 12349
- optional: Feldman: Why Patterns? [30:27] Cox CD 2126
- optional: Feldman: Piano and String Quartet [79:33] Cox CD 9716
- optional: Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet [complete] [1:14:43] Cox CD 3129
- optional: Pärt: Arbos [2:25] Cox CD 3544
- optional: Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten [7:07] Cox CD 4569
- optional: Pärt: Fratres for violin and piano [11:24] Cox CD 3626
- optional: Pärt: Fratres for wind octet and percussion [8:04] Cox CD 4569
- optional: Young: Excerpt "31 / 69 c. 12:17:33-12:24:33 PM NYC" [7:00, edit] from Drift Study "31 / 69 c. 12:17:33-12:49:58 PM NYC" from Map of 49's Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals, Cox CD 9026
- optional: Young: The Melodic Version of The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China [1:17:05] instructor's CD
- optional: Young: The Well-Tuned Piano, side 1 [30:10] Cox Rec 1470 Y73 W4
- In-class video:
- Amagatsu's Shijima, excerpt 15:30-41:20 (music: Yas-Kaz, Yoichiro Yoshikawa), Dance Program VT 112
- Ek's Smoke (music: Pärt) Cox Videotape 601 (PAL), 24:53-45:37
- Saturday, October 9-Tuesday, October 12: Fall Break
- Monday, October 11, 8:00 pm: Barnes Auditorium. Joan Niles Sears Memorial Concert: guest ensemble Cuarteto Latinoamericano presents string quartets of Mario Lavista and Steven Stucky, and Piazzolla's Four, for Tango; Xak Bjerken performs piano works of Henry Cowell and is joined by Richard Faria for Roberto Sierra's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano.
Fourth of six music concerts of which attendance at two is required.
- Thursday, October 14: Student work
- MEET IN SCHWARTZ SB10
- DUE: Sound Assignment. Create a 1-minute sound work sound. You may use any number of performers, and you may be one of the performers, or not. It may also consist partially or entirely of recorded sound. For extra credit you may choreograph movement to go with your sound work.
ARTISTIC ACTIVITY
- Tuesday, October 19: Art and politics
- Reading assignment:
- 48. Thelander:
György Ligeti's Trio
- 49. Carl: review of African Rhythms
- 50. Aimard, Arom & Schomann, Ligeti, Reich: liner notes to African Rhythms
- 51. Volans:
String Quartet No. 1
and String Quartet No. 2
- 52. Taylor:
When We Think about Music and Politics
- Listening assignment:
- Ligeti: Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano [22:43] Cox CD 6932
- Aka Pygmies: Cox CD 11684: African Rhythms:
- Bossobe [2:00]
- Bobangi [2:39]
- Yangissa [2:43]
- Reich: Clapping Music [3:27] Cox CD 11684: African Rhythms
- Ligeti: Cox CD 11684: African Rhythms:
- Etude No. 4, Fanfares [3:31]
- Etude No. 8, Fém [3:07]
- Volans: first movement [10:11] from String Quartet No. 2
Hunting: Gathering
Cox CD 11421
- optional: Ligeti: Études, [38:52] Cox CD 5107
- optional: Ligeti: Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet [12:56] Cox CD 6932
- optional: Reich: Clapping Music [4:39] Cox CD 1613
- In-class rehearsal: Reich: Clapping Music
- Tuesday, October 19, 7:30 PM: RUBBERBANDance Group
Schwartz Center, Kiplinger Theatre, $25; attendance required.
- Thursday, October 21: Art and human nature
- Reading assignment:
- 53. Dissanayake:
Controlling the Natural
REPETITION
- Tuesday, October 26: Ecstasy in repetition
- Reading assignment:
- 54. Silverton: review of hat Art 6115: Ustvolskaya: Trio; Sonata No. 5; Duet
- 55. Pernick / Silverton: reviews of Etcetera 1170: Ustvolskaya: Symphony No. 4; Sonata No. 5; +
- 56. Kirstein:
Ritual Synthesis: Les Noces Villageoises
- Listening assignment:
- Ustvolskaya: Sonata No. 5 in Ten Movements [17:39] Cox CD 5872
- In-class video:
- Nijinska's Les Noces (music: Stravinsky) [xx:xx+27:09] Cox Videotape 182
- Thursday, October 28: Repetitive process
- Reading assignment:
- 57. Nyman:
Against Intellectual Complexity in Music
- 58. Reich:
Music as a Gradual Process
- 59. Reich:
Texture--Space--Survival
- 60. Childs:
Timeless / Everyday
- 61. Childs interviewed by Morgenroth: excerpt from
Lucinda Childs
- Listening assignment:
- Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room [15:15] Cox Rec 2 S71 no. 3
- Reich: Violin Phase [15:09] Cox Rec 1528 R34 M9
- optional: Reich: Drumming [56:42] Cox CD 742
- optional: Reich: Pendulum Music [5:52] Cox CD 9026
- Viewing assignment:
- Kylian: Falling Angels (music: Reich: Drumming - Part I) 1:21:55-1:38:16, Cox DVD 9
- In-class video:
- Childs' Dance (music: Glass) Section I, 12:15-31:27, Dance Program VT 153
- Tuesday, November 2: The still image, the moving image and repetitive sound
- Reading assignment:
- 62. Hitchcock:
Minimalism in Art and Music
- 63. Bernard:
The Minimalist Aesthetic in the Plastic Arts and in Music
- Listening assignment:
- Riley: In C [46:00] Cox CD 9880
- optional: Glass:
The Kuru Field of Justice
[18:46] Act I, Scene 1 of Satyagraha, Cox CD 11063
- optional: Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain [37:13] Cox Rec 452 R57 C2
- optional: Riley: "Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight" [8:21] from Salome Dances for Peace, Cox CD 826
- optional: Riley: Mythic Birds Waltz [16:08] Cox Rec 452 R57 C2
- optional: Riley: "Poppy Nogood" [7:55, edit] from Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band, All Night Flight, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, N.Y. March 22, 1968 Vol. 1 (Organ of Corti), Cox CD 9026
- optional: Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air [18:40] Cox CD 11061
- optional: Shankar: Homage to Baba Allauddin (Raga Hemant) [23:35] Cox CD 10631
- Viewing assignment:
- Glass: Koyaanisqatsi, excerpt 16:27-40:49, Cox DVD 149
- Thursday, November 4: The minimalist aesthetic
IMPROVISATION AND JUXTAPOSITION
- Tuesday, November 9: Repetition for improvisation
- DUE: Paper #2.
- Reading assignment:
- 64. Brown:
How to Make a Modern Dance When the Sky's the Limit
- 65. Brown interviewed by Morgenroth: excerpt from
Trisha Brown
- In-class video:
- Brown's Set and Reset (music: Anderson) Dance Program VT 102
- Thursday, November 11: Jazz improvisation
- Reading assignment:
- 66. Lewis:
Improvised Music after 1950
- Listening assignment:
- Parker:
Kim
[3:24] from Charlie Parker, Cox Rec 1356 P23 E78
- Coltrane:
Mr. P.C.
[6:57] from Giant Steps, Cox Rec 1356 C72 G4
- Coleman:
Lonely Woman
[4:59] from The Shape of Things to Come, Cox CD 1442
- Braxton: 92 + (30, 32, 139) + (108c, 108d) [10:49] Cox CD 10710
- Viewing assignment:
- The World According to John Coltrane, excerpt 47:55-58:22, Cox Videotape 391
- Friday, November 12, 8:00 pm: Barnes Hall. This is a special Barnes Hall concert featuring the program
Kurtag's Ghosts.
Italian pianist and conductor Marino Formenti has distinguished himself as a compelling and original interpreter of both classical and contemporary music, often in unusual and experimental concert formats which reveal striking connections between ancient and modern. Tickets available starting Aug. 16 at www.CornellConcertSeries.com and BaileyTickets.com and in-person/by phone at Ticket Center Ithaca (on The Commons, 607-273-4497.) Please note that capacity is limited at Barnes Hall and there will be no late admittance for this program – ticketholders must be in the auditorium by 7:45p for guaranteed seating.
Fifth of six music concerts of which attendance at two is required.
- Tuesday, November 16: Free improvisation and juxtaposition
- Reading assignment:
- 67. Smith & Dean:
Improv(is)ing the Definitions
- 68. Clarke:
Improvisation, Cognition and Education
- 69. Davis:
'Zorn' for 'Anger'
- 70. Strickland:
Spillane, the Works...Looking for Zorn
- 71. Drury:
A View from the Piano Bench
- Listening assignment:
- Braxton & Bailey:
The First Set - Area 6
[6:08] from First Duo Concert, Cox LP 1997
- Bailey & Min:
Dragons Flying, Phoenixes Dancing
[4:15] from Flying Dragons, Cox CD 11541
- Chant, Parker, Kraabel, Northover, Butcher & Todd:
Dingos Creep
[9:21] from The Hearing Continues, Cox CD 11507
- Frith: Traffic Continues [28:32] from Traffic Continues, Cox CD 11065
- Michihiro, Frisell & Frith: untitled [4:21] from Rodan, Cox CD 9796
- Zorn: Spillane [25:12] Cox CD 677
- Zorn: Forbidden Fruit [10:20] Cox CD 826
- Zorn: Carny [11:36] Cox CD 9257
- optional: Zorn: Cat o' nine tails [12:40] Cox CD 4030
- optional: Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3 [19:06] Cox CD 826
- optional: Schnittke: Piano Quintet [24:09] Cox CD 9281
- optional: Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 1 [32:13] Cox CD 1511
- optional: Schnittke: Symphony No. 1 [67:34] Cox CD 9652
- optional: Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 2 for Violin, Cello and Orchestra [32:38] Cox CD 9717
- Thursday, November 18: Free improvisation in movement and sound
- MEET IN SCHWARTZ SB10
- Reading assignment:
- 72. Carter:
Improvisation in Dance
- 73. Sheets-Johnstone:
Thinking in Movement
- 74. Nugent:
Profile: William Forsythe
- 75. Ochs:
Devices and Strategies for Structured Improvisation.
- Viewing assignment:
- Forsythe: "Reorganizing" from Improvisation Technologies, Cox CD-ROM 87
- Thursday, November 18, 8:00 pm: Willard Straight Memorial Room. Cornell Steel Band and the World Drum & Dance Ensemble; Tim Feeney, director.
Sixth of six music concerts of which attendance at two is required.
CHOREOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS AND ISSUES
- Tuesday, November 23: Student work
- MEET IN SCHWARTZ SB10
- DUE: Choreography Assignment. Create a 3-minute dance to one of the musical works listed under
3-minute pieces
on the DANCE 324 digital sound reserve page at the Cox Library of Music and Dance. You may use any number of dancers, and you may be one of the dancers, or not. The choreography will be graded on the thoughtfulness of its connection with the music.
- Thursday, November 25-Sunday, November 28: Thanksgiving Break
- Tuesday, November 30: Dance composition and ideas
- Reading assignment:
- 76. Lavender:
Post-Historical Dance Criticism
- 77. Schapiro:
On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content
- 78. Carroll:
The Philosophy of Art History, Dance, and the Sixties
- 79. Greenberg:
Counter-Avant-Garde
- Thursday, December 2: Evaluation
- Reading assignment:
- 80. Banes:
Criticism as Ethnography
- 81. Meyer:
A Pride of Prejudices; or, Delight in Diversity
- 82. Drury:
Against Radical Contingency
- Thursday-Saturday, December 2-4, 8 PM: Dance Theatre Concert
Schwartz Center, Class of '56 Dance Theatre, $4; attendance required.
- Wednesday, December 8, 12 Noon