MUTH 6680 "The Symphony in the Twentieth Century--a Review"
Timothy L. Jackson
Summer II 2007
The purpose of this seminar is to review the "standard" symphonic repertoire of the twentieth century with as much scope and depth as possible to prepare students for the doctoral examinations. The focus will be on both the music itself and the secondary literature. Among the symphonies to be considered are those by such famous yet diverse composers as Mahler, Richard Strauss, Elgar, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg, Webern, Hindemith, Sibelius, Vaughn Williams, Carl Nielsen, and Shostakovich, but also less well-known figures who continued the Central European symphonic tradition in different ways: Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Felix Weingartner, Johann Nepomuk David, Guenter Raphael, Ernst Pepping, Jon Leifs, Karel Rathaus, Egon Wellesz, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Toch, Eduard Erdmann, Hans Eisler, Arnold Bax, Allen Pettersson, Kurt Atterberg, Rued Langgaard, and Eduard Tubin.