Course Description
The history of western music from the Classical style period to the present day.
Athena Title
Music West Trad Post 1750
Prerequisite
MUSI 1120 and MUSI 1130
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
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.
Topical Outline
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.
Syllabus