Music, Dance & Light
DANCE 3590 / THETR 3190 / VISST 3519
Spring 2010 Daily Schedule

Revised 1/26/10

Instructors: Allen Fogelsanger, Ed Intemann

INTRODUCTION -- LINCOLN HALL 149

Tuesday, January 26: General introduction

• In-class viewing:
  • Intemann, Kovar, Afanador, Suber, Morgenroth, Chu: Reflections in an Eye of Titanium (music: Fogelsanger, Ulver and Rasputina, Bach; lighting: Intemann) excerpt.

HEARING SOUND -- LINCOLN HALL 149

Thursday, January 28: Simple musical structures

• Reading assignment for Thursday, January 28:
  • Textbook. Copland: What to Listen for in Music: ch. 2, 4-5, 8-9, beginning of 13 (up to but not including "The Symphony"), and app. III.
• Listening assignment:
  • Beethoven: "Waldstein" Sonata, first movement, Cox CD 10566.
• In-class listening:
  • Bach: Ich ruf' zu Dir from the Orgelbüchlein, Cox CD 5180 v.7.

Tuesday, February 2: Complex musical structures

• Reading assignment for Tuesday, February 2:
  • 9. Rothstein: "The Twilight Fantasies of Elliott Carter"
  • 10. Morton: "Elliott Carter"
• Listening assignment:
  • Carter: String Quartet No. 1 [42:03], CD 1735.
• In-class listening:
  • Carter: Enchanted Preludes [6:30], Cox CD 3762;
  • Hostetler: Happily Ever After [16:54], Cox CD 2970.

Thursday, February 4: Sound structures

• Reading assignment for Thursday, February 4:
  • 11. Feldman: "Crippled Symmetry"
• Listening assignment:
  • Feldman: Palais de Mari [24:42], CD 2348.
• In-class listenings:
  • Var�se: Ionisation [5:51], Cox CD 9881;
  • Feldman: Trio for Flutes [4:24], Cox CD 3861.

MAKING SOUND -- SCHWARTZ CENTER SB10

• DUE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9: PRE-WRITE 1

Tuesday, February 9: Making sound

Thursday, February 11: Viewing sound

SEEING LIGHT -- LINCOLN HALL 149

Tuesday, February 16: Light as a sensory or aesthetic experience

• Reading assignment for Tuesday, February 16:
  • 1. Ackerman: selections from A Natural History of the Senses
  • 2. Appia: Actor, Space, Light, Painting
  • 3. Appia: The Elements
  • 4. de Marigny: Light, Real Time and Jennifer Tipton
  • 5. Jones: Light and Shadow
• Viewing assignment:
  • Wilson: Alceste (music: Gluck) excerpt, Cox DVD 11;
  • Morris: Dido and Aeneas (music: Purcell) excerpt, Cox DVD 3;

Thursday, February 18: Light as a collaborative experience

• Reading assignment for Thursday, February 18:
  • 6. Kittler: "Opera in the Light of Technology"
  • 7. Shyer: "Beverly Emmons"
  • 8. Holmberg: "The Deep Surface"
• Viewing assignment:
  • Morris: Falling Down Stairs (music: Bach), Cox DVD 120 [tracks 13-18, 32:22-53:22].
• In-class viewing:
  • Wilson: Einstein on the Beach, excerpt (music: Glass; choreography: Childs), Dance Program VT 16.

MAKING LIGHT -- SCHWARTZ CENTER SB10

• DUE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23: PRE-WRITE 2

Tuesday, February 23: Making light

Thursday, February 25: Viewing light

SEEING MOVEMENT -- LINCOLN HALL 149

Tuesday, March 2: Expression and/or Formalism

• Reading assignment for Tuesday, March 2:
  • 12. Jowitt: "Expression and Expressionism in American Modern Dance"
  • 13. Aloff: "Husbandry"
  • 14. Banes: "Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater"
  • 15. Carroll: "Post-Modern Dance and Expression"
  • 16. Rainer: "NO Manifesto"
  • 17. Rainer: "A Quasi-Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies"
  • 18. Nugent: "Confounding Expectations"
  • 19. Haffner: "Observing Motion"
• Viewing assignment:
  • Graham: Appalachian Spring (music: Copland), Cox DVD 119.
  • Forsythe: Lectures on "Point-Point Line" under "Lines," Examples, and Solo (music: Willems), [22'], Cox CD-ROM 50.
• In-class viewing:
  • Rainer: Trio A, Dance Program VT.

Thursday, March 4: Synthesis

• Reading assignment for Thursday, March 4:
  • 20. Acocella: "Music"
  • 21. Moore: excerpt from "Bach: Cello Suites"
  • 22. Kisselgoff: excerpt from "Artful Workout on the Stairmaster"

MAKING MOVEMENT -- SCHWARTZ CENTER SB10

• DUE TUESDAY, MARCH 9: PRE-WRITE 3

Tuesday, March 9: Making movement

Thursday, March 11: Viewing movement

Thursday-Saturday, March 11-13, 7:30 PM; Sunday, March 14, 2:00 PM: Dance '10. Tickets required.

THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS -- LINCOLN HALL 149

Tuesday, March 16: The Four Temperaments I

• Reading assignment for Tuesday, March 16:
  • 23. Fogelsanger: "Notes on The Four Temperaments"
  • 24. Siegel: "Four Temperaments (George Balanchine)"
  • 25. Wilkins: "The Four Temperaments: An Interpretation"
  • 26. Sontag: "Against Interpretation"
  • 27. Daly: "The Balanchine Woman: Of Hummingbirds and Channel Swimmers"
  • 28. Copeland: "In Defence of Formalism: The Politics of Disinterestedness"
  • 29. Jordan and Thomas: "Dance and Gender: Formalism and Semiotics Reconsidered"
• Viewing assignment:
  • Balanchine: The Four Temperaments (music: Hindemith) [30:03].

Wednesday, March 17, 7:30 PM: Suzanne Farrell Ballet. Tickets required.

Thursday, March 18: The Four Temperaments II

• Reading assignment for Thursday, March 18:
  • 30. Carroll: "Formalism"
  • 31. Sontag: "On Style"

Saturday, March 20-Sunday, March 28: Spring Break

SHAPING WORK -- SCHWARTZ CENTER SB10

• DUE TUESDAY, MARCH 30: PAPER #1

Tuesday, March 30: Making shaped juxtapositions

Thursday, April 1: Viewing shaped juxtapositions

VARIATIONS V / BEACH BIRDS FOR CAMERA -- LINCOLN HALL 149

Tuesday, April 6: Juxtaposition and abstraction

• Reading assignment for Tuesday, April 6:
  • 32. Cunningham: "Space, Time and Dance"
  • 33. Mumma: "Four Sound Environments for Modern Dance"
  • 34. Vaughan: excerpt from "1965"
  • 35. Carter: "The Gesamtkunstwerk"
  • 36. Banes: "Dancing [with/to/before/on/in/over/after/against/away from/without] the Music"
• In-class viewing:
  • Cunningham: Variations V [4:49-45:40] (music: Cage; lighting: Emmons), Cox Videotape 458.

Thursday, April 8: Abstraction or "the natural"

• Reading assignment for Thursday, April 8:
  • 37. Jowitt: excerpt from "Silence and Stillness"
  • 38. Penman: excerpt from "Art and Artifice on Television"
  • 39. Copeland: selections from Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance
  • 40. Kuhn: excerpt from "Cunningham + Cage"
• In-class viewing:
  • Cunningham: Beach Birds for Camera (music: Cage), Cox DVD 598.

COLLABORATION -- SCHWARTZ CENTER SB10

• DUE TUESDAY, APRIL 13: PAPER #2

Tuesday, April 13: Making four 3-person collaborations

Thursday, April 15: Viewing four 3-person collaborations

TWELVE TON ROSE -- LINCOLN HALL 149

Tuesday, April 20: Music of Webern

• Reading assignment for Tuesday, April 20:
  • 41. Fogelsanger: "Dancing to the Music between Balanchine and Cunningham"
  • 42. Langer: "Deceptive Analogies: Specious and Real Relationships among the Arts"
  • 43. Levinson: "Hybrid Art Forms"
• Listening assignment:
  • Webern: Op. 5 [12:10], Op. 7 [4:51], & Op. 28 [8:35] (Cox CD 1958)
    • Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett op. 5
      • I. Heftig bewegt
      • II. Sehr langsam
      • III. Sehr bewegt
      • IV. Sehr langsam
      • V. In zarter Bewegung
    • Vier Stücke für Geige und Klavier op. 7
      • I. Sehr langsam
      • II. Rasch
      • III. Sehr langsam
      • IV. Bewegt
    • Streichquartett op. 28
      • I. Mäßig
      • II. Gemächlich
      • III. Sehr fließend
• In-class viewing:
  • Brown: Twelve Ton Rose (music: Webern), Dance Program VT.

Thursday, April 22: Analysis of Twelve Ton Rose

• Reading assignment for Thursday, April 22:
  • 44. Carroll: "A Contribution to the Theory of Movie Music"
  • 45. Schnebel: "Visible Music"

LARGE COLLABORATION -- SCHWARTZ CENTER SB10

• DUE TUESDAY, APRIL 27: PAPER #3

  • 6-8 page analysis of In the Upper Room

Tuesday, April 27: Making two 6-person collaborations

• DUE THURSDAY, APRIL 29: THESIS AND OUTLINE OF PAPER #4 (FINAL PAPER)

Thursday, April 29: Viewing two 6-person collaborations

DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- LINCOLN HALL 149

• DUE TUESDAY, MAY 4: REVISED THESIS AND OUTLINE OF PAPER #4 (FINAL PAPER)

Tuesday, May 4: Discussion and analysis of In the Upper Room

• DUE THURSDAY, MAY 6: WRITING SAMPLE OF PAPER #4 (FINAL PAPER)

Thursday, May 6: Discussion and analysis of final paper topics

Thursday-Saturday, May 6-8, 8:00 PM: Dance Theatre Concert. Tickets required.

FINAL EXAMINATION

• DUE FRIDAY, MAY 14, 12:00 NOON: PAPER #4 (FINAL PAPER)