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Music
some sites include sound clips - The British Broadcasting Service has an interesting site about music and composers, many of whom are on the list below. BBC--Music/Profiles
- A publisher, W.W. Norton, has assembled sites about composers and their music for their textbooks. Try one or both of these. The Enjoyment of Music [click on Listening or 20th Century] or Essentials of Music [click on Composers]
- A recording company, EMI, has excerpts of various composers/music onsite. The offerings change daily; look in the upper left-hand side for the LISTEN links. However, on any given day, the offerings available to listen to may or may not be part of a given week's assignment for class.
- Internet Live Music Archive, an online public library of live recordings available for royalty-free, no-cost public downloads.
- Hyperion Records has a large collection of excerpts, which may or may not be addressed in class.
Ravel; this link from the BBC
Debussy NPR report, 53 minutes
Stravinsky, a.k.a. Stravinskii or Strawinski; NPR report, 18 minutes; WBUR report, 48 minutes
Bartok, hotlinks to MIDI excerpts in the article
Kodaly; no explanation, just excerpts of Mp3 files
Szymanowski, with a short piano excerpt that starts playing immediately
Berg, excerpt from Lulu
Prokofieff, a.k.a. Prokofiev; this clip from the Piano Society, not an orchestral clip
Shostakovitch a.k.a. Shostakovich
Gershwin | see also the Sound Station at GershwinFan.com
The "official" Bernstein site
Cage, includes online music excerpts
Ives, exhaustive list of music, with links to sound clips--links may or may not work!
Friedhofer; this site gives biographies and criticism but no sound clips. Hint: search on "Hugo" rather than the last name. The search engine is a little odd.
Herrmann This is a major fan site, lots o' links. | David Raksin writes about his friend Bernard Herrmann.
transcript of PBS interview with David Raksin | David Raksin 1998 interview streaming audio
KMFA radio in Austin TX did a whole show about Max Steiner on April 1, 2006; you can listen to the archive on streaming audio
Weill
Copland
Rihm
Ligeti
Nono
Boulez
Boston Modern Orchestra Project did a tribute to Toru Takemitsu | A British fanpage on Takemitsu
Witold Lutoslawski, from his publisher
Krzystof Penderecki; site in German | USC site about Penderecki in English, but no downloads
Swiss composers, including Paul Glass | Paul Glass; site in French Music Resources in print To locate books on Music, you will want to use the Franklin College catalog.
To find books on Music, look under the Subject of MUSIC.
To find books on a certain period or region or type, look under, for example: Music -- 20th CENTURY or MUSIC -- PERFORMANCE, etc. Books from the lower level of the library ["the stacks"] can be checked out for two weeks, and renewed if you still need the book. Books from the reading level of the library are for general reference, and cannot be checked out at all. There is a 20-volume Dictionary of Music on the top shelf of the South side of the Reading room. The call number is REF 780.3 G91n
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New Work
Professor Floyd Parsons publishes Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain
New Work
Professor Joshua Long publishes Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas
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