UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
"MUSIC SINCE 1900"
MUH 4371 / MUH 5375 (Fall 2008)
Instructor: Scott Warfield

SECTION 1 (class # 91286 [UG] or # 91287 [Grad]) Class Meetings: Tue 6:00 pm - 8:50 pm
Location: Colbourn Hall 148

This web page and its associated links serves as a communications site for MUH 4371 / MUH 5375 at the University of Central Florida. Posted here are various information pages, assignments, study guides, and links to useful web sites. Students in this course are free to print any of these pages for their own use.

Undergraduate Syllabus (Fall 2008) - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc. for Undergraduates

Graduate Syllabus (Fall 2008) - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc. for Master's-level students

Weekly Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Fall 2008

Assignments - Instruction Sheets for MUH 4371 / MUH 5375 out-of-class projects

Course Readings

A list of all items (Books, Articles, Scores & Recordings) used in class and now in the UCF Library for use in your studying.

Basic Music History Reviews

For those who wish to review their basic music history knowledge, the web sites maintained by W.W. Norton provide supplemental study materials, including chapter outlines, practice quizzes, and listening guides keyed to:

Useful Web Sites

Libraries and Search Tools

UCF Library
Home page of the UCF Library, with full access to the online catalog. On-campus users and those with a UCF ISP may also have access to the online versions of the following electronic databases:

Items for Listening

These items include many of the assigned listenings for the course. Most are from "Youtube", but other sources may also be included. Simply click the link and listen. Note also that some of these items may be downloaded to your computers for futher study.
The Library of Congress
Home page of the largest library and largest music library in the world. Search its catalog via the link near the top of the page.
Doctoral Dissertations in Music On-Line
A searchable index of doctoral dissertations written in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Although primarily an index of American dissertations, it also includes many of the more recent European dissertations.

New Music Box
The "Web Magazine" of the American Music Center, devoted to the work of limving American composers.
"The Rest Is Noise"
The blog of Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker, and author of The Rest Is Noise.
Kyle Gann's Home page
Personal website of one of the leading critics and writers on new music, with links to extensive resources elsewhere.
Music and Politics
An electronic journal, first published in 2007, devoted to the interaction of music and politics in any era, bust especially in the 20th century.
Grawemeyer Award
A series of major awards, begun in 1985 with "Music Composition" as its first category, administered by the University of Louisville.
The Pulitzer Prizes
Among the most famous and prestigious awards for journalism and the arts, including music.

Student-Identified Web Resources

Art of the States
Art of the States is a WGBH Radio Boston production that participates in musical exchange with the European Broadcasting Union. Over the last fourteen years they have collected performances of “new, unusual, and lesser-known repertoire” for features on their broadcast. In 2002 they launched the website to offer listeners an extended database. The website features audio streaming, program notes, and links to related websites. From the homepage you can click on any number of links to view either featured material, or search by composer, instrumentation, time period, genre, or performer, in addition to keyword search. For instance the time period database is divided into decades starting with the year 1771-1780 and ending with 2001 till the present. Each piece has an individual page containing information about the music, the composer and performer. The sound files and composer information are useful tools in discovering new and past composers in United States musical history. The website is clean and easy to use, each link is self explanatory, and the information is very well organized within a variety of databases. (D. Roby)
Counterstream Radio
This website is a streaming audio site of contemporary music. It is a good way to hear what music is out there from modern and living composers in America. The music streams 24 hours a day and has a vast variety. It does not stick to any particular style or genre, but instead pulls from a multitude of sources to expose American composers to the listening public. In order to use the site you must have a broadband internet connection and Macromedia Flash. The site is run by Molly Sheridan, a composer and writer in the classical music industry. She also runs the online magazine New Music Box, a magazine dedicated to modern composers, and has served as an editor for Symphony magazine. [K. Hickson]
Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
Dr. Steven Estrella is a widely respected music technician and is currently the Vice President and webmaster for the Technology Institute for Music Educators. As an author and clinician, he previously served as assistant professor of music education at Temple University. His website is the starting point for several other of his music websites, including Dr. Estrella’s Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers, which connects you to 20th century composers’ biographies and also a timeline that leads to other 20th-century composer resources. The website is uniform and extremely user-friendly, with links to several of his other websites. [E. Stillson]
The History of Avantgarde Music
Piero Scaruffi’s The History of Avantgarde Music is an online copy of Scaruffi’s book of the same title. A man of many careers, Scaruffi was born in Italy and moved to the United States, whereupon he began work as a scientist, poet, social/political commentator and historian, etc. This particular website is dedicated to 20th-century music, including post-modernism, minimalism, and computer music. The website is smooth and clear-cut, with links to each chapter of the book as well as a bibliography. Best of all, there are links to all of Piero Scaruffi’s other websites and books. There is also a link to profiles of hundreds of 20th-century composers, most of whom are modern-day. While it is not a strictly academic resource, it is similar to The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. (E. Stillson)
The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century
This website contains a list and recordings of special NPR broadcasts from the year 2000. It is a part of the general NPR site. These broadcasts were from the series “The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century” and are available to listen to for free on this site. This site is helpful when studying American music from both the art music and popular music perspectives. The broadcasts discuss the works and the composers/performers, and also why the work was chosen for this list. It is a reliable source since it is from NPR. There is not much navigation required on the site since it is mostly a list. RealAudio is required to listen to the broadcasts. The written summaries of each piece provide a glimpse of the music, the importance, and the speakers featured in each broadcast. (K. Hickson)
John Adams: Official Website
The official website of John Adams. The site contains a list of works with sound clips and words from the composer on each one, a biography of the composer, a list of recordings with outgoing links to each album, and many interviews and articles written by or involving John Adams. A great resource for anyone who is researching, playing, or listening to his music, the site also contains a "Technical Information Guide" explaining the different synthsizers and software used to create each piece. [G. Jimenez]
The Living Composers Project
This site offers a “no frills” database of living composers. From the home page you can click on any one of the alphabetical surname links to find a composer by last name, you can search by country of origin, or you can simply search the database using the search engine provided. Once you have found a composer, click on their name and the link will take you to their personal website. For the sake of this project the composer must have lived after the year 2000, when the project began. The composer must also compose strictly in the “classical music” idiom, no pop music allowed, and the composer must be at least 18 years of age. Composers from any country are eligible. The format is simple, easy to use and very straightforward. [D. Roby]

Local Concert Information

Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
As Central Florida's local professional symphony orchestra, the OPO performs a variety of concert series in and around Orlando. Follow the “Events” link on the home page to view the various concert series they present.
Orlando Opera
Orlando’s professional opera company presents 3-4 operas and others events each season. Student tickets are available in some areas of the house for as little as $ 10.00.
The Festival of Orchestras
The Festival of Orchestras is a permanent concert series in Orlando’s Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, featuring five internationally acclaimed symphony orchestras each season.
The Winter Park Bach Festival
The Winter Park Bach Festival is internationally known as the fourth oldest Bach Festival in the United States, having been founded in 1935 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. This organization hosts a series of classical concerts throughout the year, as well as an extended Bach Festival in the early spring, on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park.

Local & Regional Broadcasting Information

WUCF-FM (89.9)
The web site of the University of Central Florida's own non-commercial radio station. Its programming is primariliy jazz, but WUCF also carries some NPR programming, a Sunday evening show on Bluegrass, and Saturday broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera. WUCF-FM is available to you through the Internet to anyone with a Real Player Plug-in.
WMFE-FM (90.7)
Orlando's public radio station broadcasts primarily classical music, news, and other NPR programming 24-hours a day. Use the "pull-down" menu under "90.7" on the tool bar at the top of the home page to reach the web link for listening to WMFE's broadcast.
WUFT-FM (89.1)
The University of Florida's public radio station in Gainesville broadcasts a mix of classical, jazz, folk, and world music, as well as news and NPR programming 24-hours a day. WUFT-FM can be heard through the web link on their home page.

Web Sites for Downloadable Computer & Internet Tools

Real.com
Web site of "Real Player," one of the standard plug-ins that you might need to listen to web broadcasts and streaming audio, or to play CDs through your computer. The basic player can be downloaded at now cost from this site.
Windows Media
Web site of "Windows Media Player," another plug-in the is used for listening to web broadcasts, streaming audio and CDs.
Sibelius
Web site of one of the most widely used software packages for writing and printing music with computers. Various demo versions and upgrades are available for downloading, as is a help center for users.
Finale
The Web site of Coda Music, makers of the widely used Finale program for writing and printing music. A basic form of the program is available as a free download.