Week 1: The String Quartet
Bartok: The 6 quartets (1909, 1917, 1927, 1928, 1934, 1939)

Janacek: Kreutzer Sonata (1923), Intimate Letters (1928)

Week 2: Stage Music I
Janacek: Jenufa (1923)

Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1917), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919, orchestrated 1924)

Week 3: Misc. Orchestral Music

Janacek: Sinfonietta (1926)

Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (1936), Concerto for Orchestra (1943)

Kodaly: Concerto for Orchestra (1942)

Week 4: The Concerto
Bartok: The 3 piano concertos (1926, 1931, 1945), Violin Concerto (1938)

Martinu: A brief overview of his many concertos

Week 5: Choral Music

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass (1926)

Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus (1926)

Bartok: Cantata Profana (1930)

Martinu: Opening of the Wells (1955)

Week 6: The Symphony

Kodaly: C Major (1961)

Martinu: The 6 symphonies (1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1951)

Week 7: Piano Music
Works subject to change

Janacek: Overgrown Path (1901), Sonata (1905)

Kodaly: 9 Pieces Op. 3 (1910)

Martinu: Brief selections from Dance Sketches (1933), Etudes and Polkas (1946)

Bartok: 7 Sketches (1911). Etudes (1918), Sonata (1926), Out of Doors (1927), Mikrokosmos (completed 1939)

N.B. Bartok is the main composer for this session.

Week 8: Stage Music II
Martinu: Juliette (1938)

Janacek: Kata Kabanova (1921), The Cunning Little Vixen (1923), From the House of the Dead (1928)

Recommended Books

Bela Bartok (20th Century Composers)
by Kenneth Chalmers

Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music
by John C Crawford

Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest
by Judit Frigyesi, Judith Frigyesi

The New Grove Modern Masters (The New Grove Series)
by Vera Lampert

Inside Bluebeard’s Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok’s Opera
by Carl S. Leafstedt

BOHUSLAV MARTINU; THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC
by SAFRANEK MILOS

Bartok and His World
Princeton University Press

The New Grove Turn of the Century Masters: Janacek, Mahler, Strauss, Sibelius (Composer Biography Series)
by Stanley Sadie, John Tyrrell

The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
by Halsey Stevens

Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation
by Arnold Whittall

Janácek: Glagolitic Mass (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
by Paul Wingfield

Janacek: A Composer’s Life
by Mirka Zemanova

Janacek’s Uncollected Essays on Music
by Leos Janacek