Classroom Sessions

This page presents resources associated with the classroom sessions: related listening, readings, scores, Web sites and videos.

SES # INSTRUCTORS TOPICS RESOURCES
C1 Martin Marks Overview, getting acquainted, the syllabus, concerts, student projects Excerpts from Eliot, T. S. Four Quartets.
C2 Marcus Thompson Class discussion  
E1  

Forum 1: Time as Shape

Michael Cuthbert, Robert Jaffe, Libby Larson and Sara Brown

Concert 1

Imbrie, Larsen, Crumb and Ravel

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C3 Michael Cuthbert (Professor of Music) Repeating time: minimalism and the structure of Reich's Four Organs Amazon logo Reich, Steve. "Music as a Gradual Process" (1968). In Writings on Music, 1965-2000. Edited by Hillier. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780195111712.
C4 Paul Schechter (Professor of Astrophysics) A physicist's understanding of the concept of spacetime Amazon logo Greene, Brian. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. New York, NY: Vintage, 2005. ISBN: 9780375727207. [Preview in Google Books]
C5 Michael Ouellette (Lecturer in Theater Arts) On Michael Frayn's Copenhagen Amazon logo Frayn, Michael. Copenhagen. New York, NY: Anchor, 2000. ISBN: 9780385720793.
C6 Donald Sadoway (Professor of Materials Science and Engineering) 'Everything I needed to know I learned in 3.091' - using art, literature, music, and film to teach chemistry This talk was similar to one given at the MIT Alumni Association's 2010 Technology Day; see this MIT World video starting at ~15:00, after the discussion about energy and batteries.
E2  

Forum 2: Time as Memory

Bruce Brubaker, Peter Child and Deborah Stein

Concert 2

Beethoven, Child and Dvořák

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C7 George Ruckert (Senior Lecturer in Music) Measuring time: meters, cycles, and patterns in Hindustani music  
C8 Christopher Ariza (Visiting Professor of Music) Events per unit of time: density as a compositional parameter in the music and synthesis techniques of Iannis Xenakis (PDF - 1.1MB) (Courtesy of Christopher Ariza. Used with permission.)

Recordings played in class

Amazon logo ———. "ST/48" (1962). On Xenakis: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5. Luxembourg Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Tamayo. Tympani, 2008.

Roads, Curtis. "Now." Point Line Cloud. Asphodel Ltd., 2004. (Courtesy of Curtis Roads. Used with permission.)

Recommended readings

Amazon logo Xenakis, Iannis. "Free Stochastic Music From the Computer." In Cybernetics, Art and, Ideas. Edited by J. Reichardt. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1971, pp. 124-142. ISBN: 9780821204313.

C9 Stephen Tapscott (Professor of Literature) Deeper into Muybridge: a poet's view

Two poems from Muybridge (PDF)

Wikipedia: Eadweard Muybridge

E3  

Forum 3: Time as the Subject and Substance

Ellen Harris, Lewis Lockwood, Paul Matisse and Stephen Tapscott

Concert 3

Mozart, Loeffler, Still and Foss

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 C10 Charles Shadle (Senior Lecturer in Music) Time and structure in a film score for D. W. Griffith's Ramona (1910) 

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This film with Shadle's score is released on
Amazon logo Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934. DVD. National Film Preservation Foundation/Image Entertainment, 2007.

Booklet notes from this DVD release, by Martin Marks. "Ramona (1910) -- About the Music." (PDF) (Courtesy of the National Film Preservation Foundation. Used with permission.)

 C11 Mark Harvey (Lecturer in Music) In the moment: jazz time and improvisation

Recordings played in class

Amazon logo Time as defined, steady, organizing principle: Duke Ellington. "Satin Doll." 70th Birthday Concert. Blue Note, 1995.

Amazon logo Time as more free, elastic: Miles Davis Quartet. "My Funny Valentine." The Complete Concert 1964: My Funny Valentine + Four & More. Columbia, 1992 reissue.

Amazon logo Time as a medium in which composition / improvisation happens: Harvey, Mark. "Rapt at Rappaport's." Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. Paintings for Jazz Orchestra. Leo Records, 1993.

Time in several senses,used simultaneously, steady + multi-meter + conducted improvisation: "The Seeker." Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. Recorded live at Regattabar, Cambridge MA, March 21, 2001. (Courtesy of Mark Harvey. Used with permission.)

Recommended Readings

Amazon logo Kahn, Ashley. Kind of Blue: The Making of Miles Davis Masterpiece. New York, NY: DaCapo Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780306810671.

Amazon logo Harvey, Mark. "Jazz Time and Our Time." In This is How We Flow: Rhythm in Black Cultures. Edited by Angela M.S. Nelson. Columbia, SC: Univeristy of South Carolina Press, 1999, pp. 15-31. ISBN: 9781570031908.

 C12   Student projects & performances

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 C13  

Student projects & performances

Wrap-Up

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