Upon completion the successful student will:
1) recognize individual styles by ear and from the score;
2) discuss the further evolution and contexts of the major 
styles and genres;
3) know the formative influences on traditional and progressive 
art music in America, Europe, and elsewhere.

Main topics: Roots of the Classical style; rise of comic opera; 
Classical sonata form and sonata cycle, symphony, reform opera; 
Haydn; Mozart; Beethoven; roots of Romanticism; Romantic Lied 
and song; Romantic instrumental music; Romantic opera; 
nationalism; late-Romantic crosscurrents; early 20th-c masters 
and new compositional systems; neoclassicism and other styles 
of 1920's; return to traditional genres; 20th c nationalism; 
avant garde composition after 1945; the broadening of the canon 
at century's end.