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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2012
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MLSC 623 001 (CRN: 18185)
CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL
Long Title: WHAT MODERN WAS: CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL
Department: School of Continuing Studies
Instructor: Bailey, Nancy G.
Meeting: 6:15PM - 9:30PM W (4-SEP-2012 - 19-NOV-2012)
Part of Term: MLS Fall Session
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 0 (permission required) Department Permission Required
Section Enrolled: 8
Enrollment data as of: 9-JUN-2026 12:53AM
Description: What constituted "modern music" in 1912? Works such as Arnold Schoenberg's Perrot lunaire, Claude Debussy's Jeux, and compositions by American composers Henry Cowell and Charles Ives set the bar for musical modernism that year. But other pieces from France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Hungary and England suggested that the future would present major changes. What did audiences in the United States know about such music? What did they think about it? What did the founders of the Rice Institute think about the new musical trends? How did the music played at the opening festivities of the Rice Institute reflect these perceptions of musical modernism? This course will consider these questions from a variety of parameters and get a sense of "what modern was" and its relationship to the momentous events of 1912 in Houston, Texas.