The following is the Music 659 listening list for Spring 2008. Recordings are available in the Cornell Music Library or in the sflib "listening" directory on Cornell systems. Students are encouraged to review these items for further study.

The purpose of this list is to familiarize students with important works of electronic music from, primarily, the 20th Century.

Antheil - Ballet mécanique (CD 10130) and video on http://www.antheil.org
Babbitt - Philomel (CD 5102)
Berio - A-ronne ( Rec 1586 B502 A7)
Berio - Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)
Berio - Visage (Rec 175 E4 E31)
Boulez - Repons --M1045.B76 R4 2001 Folio (CD 8509)
Cage - Imaginary landscape no. 1 (CD 4355)
Cage - William's mix (CD3670)
Carlos - Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Mvt. 4 (in sflib)
Carlos - Timesteps (in sflib)
Davidovsky - Synchonisms #6 (CD 1312)
Dodge - Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental (CD 2605)
Dodge - Earth’s magnetic field (CD 6713)
Eno - Music for Airports (Rec 3 .1 E6)
Harvey - Mortuos plango, vivos voco (Rec 5 I65)
Harvey - Bhakti -- M947.H34 B5 1989 (CD 12107)
Henry - Musique de notre temps (CD 2588)
Hiller/Cage - HPSCHD (Rec 175 E4 C13 H2)
Kagel - Transition I (Rec 175 E4 E31)
Lansky - Idle Chatter, Just-more-idle-chatter, Notjustmoreidlechatter (CD 7313)
Lansky - Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion (CD 3691)
Ligeti - Artikulation (CD5601) -- M1473.L72 A8 1994
Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire -- Rec 1473 L93 M8
Lucier - I am siiting in a room (CD 5317)
Lucier - Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields) -- CD 14046
Lucier - Crossings (score only, recording on order)
Marshall - Fog Tropes (in sflib)
Marshall - Sighs and Murmurs: A Sea Song (DVD on order, "Immersion")
Matthews, Max - Bicycle Built for Two. (CD 8717)
Mel Powell - Strand settings: darker (CD 9615 v.8)
Oliveros - Sound Patterns (http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/extended_voices/Extended-Voices_1_Pauline-Oliveros.mp3)
Reich - Come out (CD 1613)
Reich - Pendulum music (CD 9026)
Risset - 'L'Autre Face' (CD 5101)
Risset - Sud (CD 6649)
Risset - Songes (CD 14870)
Saariaho - NoaNoa, flute (CD 9010, CD 9035)
Saariaho - Pres (CD 9035)
Saariaho - Prisma (installation CDROM, CD 8971 Box)
Schaeffer/Henri - Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul (Symphony for a Man Alone) -- CD 2588
Schaeffer - Etude aux Chemins de Fer
Subotnick - Silver Apples on the Moon (Rec 175 E4 S94 S5)
Subotnick - The last dream of the beast ( Rec 1497 L112)
Subotnick - Wild Bull (Rec 175 E4 S94 W6)
Stockhausen - Hymnen (Rec 1473 S86 H9)
Stockhausen - Kontakte with piano and perc -- M342.S86 K8 Folio (Rec 1473 S86 K8)
Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge (in sflib)
Stockhausen - Mantra (CD 5856)
Varese - Deserts (CD 7232)
Varese - Poem Electronique (CD 7232)
Wishart - Vox, no. 5 (CD 8717)
Wourinen - Time's Encomium (CD 5693)
Xenakis - Concrete PH (Rec 1473 X51 E3)
Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha -- UPIC score online (CD 5102)
Xenakis - Orient-Occident (Rec 1473 X51 E3)