1. Change in the Sixties and Seventies

2. The Music of Youth: Rock ’n’ Roll Rock ’n’ Roll – Alan Freed (1921–1965) – “rhythm and blues” – Elvis Presley (1935–1977) “Folk” Music – Peter Seeger (b. 1919) – Joan Baez (b. 1941) – Bob Dylan (b. 1941) – The Kingston Trio – Peter, Paul, and Mary

3. The British Invasion: The Beatles John Lennon (1940–1980) Paul McCartney (b. 1942) George Martin (b. 1926) “Concept albums”

4. A New Challenge Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

5. Rock ’n’ Roll Becomes Rock The Who, Tommy (1969) – Rock opera – “progressive rock”

6. Fusion Jazz-rock fusion – Miles Davis (1926–1991) In a Silent Way (1969); Bitches Brew (1970) Third Stream – Gunther Schuller (b. 1925) – confluence of Western art music and jazz – Modern Jazz Quartet

7. The Rise of Minimalism Minimalism – “pattern and process music” – experimental classical tradition – non-Western music – jazz and rock

8. La Monte Young (b. 1935) Composition 1960 No. 7 – B-F# “hold for a long time” String Trio Pandit Pran Nath Marian Zazeela (b. 1940) Theater of Eternal Music

9. Riley’s In C Terry Riley (b. 1935) Mescalin Mix – tape loops In C (1964) – 53 numbered “modules” for “any number of any kind of instruments”

10. “Classical” Minimalism: Steve Reich Steve Reich (b. 1936) West African Drumming and Balinese gamelan It’s Gonna Rain (1965) Come Out (1966) – tape pieces – phasing

11. Phase Music Piano Phase (1967) – for two pianos – phasing for performers Drumming (1971) – “rhythmic construction” “rhythmic reduction”

12. Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians [Anthology 3-56] Percussion and keyboard instruments, electronically amplified solo strings, winds, and voices

13. Philip Glass Studied at the University of Chicago and Julliard Received a Fulbright to study with Nadia Boulanger Worked with Ravi Shankar

14. Philip Glass Strung Out (1967) – for solo amplified violin – pentatonic module subjected to variations Two Pages for Steve Reich (1968) – scored for the Philip Glass Ensemble Music in Twelve Parts (1971–74)

15. Einstein on the Beach [Anthology 3-57] Collaboration with Robert Wilson Rented the Metropolitan Opera House in NY Postmodern Gesamtkunstwerk

16. The Holy Minimalists Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) – influence of Medieval music, sound of bells (“tintinnabular” style) – Symphony No. 3 (1971) – Fratres – Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten – Tabula rasa [Anthology 3- 58]

17. The Holy Minimalists Henryk Górecki (1933–2010) – strictly diatonic, highly repetitive – Third Symphony (1976) – recording sold over 1 million copies