MU 316 Music History II Block 8, 2003


All page references are to Donald Grout and Claude Palisca, A History of Western Music.  6th ed.

Week 1
M.
4/21		 Introduction to Classicism - 18th Century philosophy and history
Sources of classical style: Mannheim School, Domenico Scarlatti, J.C. and K.P.E. Bach
Sonata form		 Grout/Palisca, pp. 420-432; 450-460
T.
4/22		 Haydn - symphony and chamber music
Mozart - chamber music
Other 18th-century forms - minuet and trio; rondo; theme and variations		 465-495
W.
4/23		 Mozart - symphony, concertos, opera
Afternoon (1:00-4:00) - watch The Marriage of Figaro		 495-509
Th.
4/24		 Discuss The Marriage of Figaro
Beethoven - Introduction		 513-528
Short paper on Don Giovanni due
F.
4/25		 Beethoven 528-539
Week 2
M.
4/28		 Introduction to Romanticism
Lieder - Schubert and Schumann
Piano music - Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt		 542-546; 571-587; 593-598
T.
4/29		 Symphony and tone poem - Berlioz and Liszt
(also Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Franck)		 545-557
W.
4/30		 Early romantic opera
     France - Meyerbeer, Berlioz
     Italy - Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini
Verdi - Introduction
Afternoon (1:00-4:00) - watch Otello		 603-611; 614-617
Th.
5/1		 Discuss Otello
German romantic opera - Weber, Wagner		 618-628
F.
5/2		 Listening and ID test
Wagner continued
Later opera
     France - Bizet, Gounod
     Italy - Leoncavallo, Puccini
     Germany - Strauss		 612-613; 641-644; 670-671
Week 3
M.
5/5		 Symphonic music - Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Bruckner, Strauss
Take-home test due		 558-565; 631-641
T.
5/6		 Continue symphonic music
Nationalism - Russia, Central Europe, Scandanavia		 644-660
W.
5/7		 Introduction to the 20th Century
Debussy
Stravinsky (to Le Sacre du Printemps)		 660-669; 676-679; 702-705
Th.
5/8		 No class
Finish papers
9:00 AM - watch Wozzeck		  
F.
5/9		 "Second" Viennese School -  Schönberg, Webern, Berg 713-725
Research/analysis paper due
Week 4
M.
5/12		 Neo Classicism - Stravinsky, Ravel, Les Six
Russain School (Rachmaninoff, Prokofieff, Shostakovitch)
Bartok, Hindemith		 680-687;689-702; 705-709
T.
5/13		 American music - Ives, Copland, Gottschalk; Gershwin; Jazz
"Modernism" before WW II - Varèse. Cowell, Seeger		 740-764
W.
5/14		 Final Test