Music 344 Course ScheduleSpring 2002
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| Classicism I—The Symphony: Evolution of a New Genre | ||
| M Jan 28 | Introduction;
Pre-Classical Symphony |
Listen to DWMA 121-123
Read Ch 18: 327-45; Ch 19: 361-62 |
| W Jan 30 | Haydn Symphonies | Listen to DWMA 131 & RESERVE
Read Ch 19: 361-62, 369-79 |
| F Feb 1 | Mozart and the Piano Concerto | Encounter 1
& Three Paper Topics Due Listen to DWMA 126-127 Read Ch 18: 338-39; Ch 19: 362-64, 391-92 |
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| Classicism II—Vienna: Musical Crossroads of Europe | ||
| M Feb 4 | Vienna & Empire:
Pre-Classical Opera |
Listen to DWMA 124 & 128-129
Read Ch 18: 346-51, 352-54, 356-58; Ch 19: 359-61, 366-69, 397-98 |
| W Feb 6 | Mozart and Amadeus | Quiz No. 1
Listen to RESERVE Read Ch 19: 379-83, 384, 393-94 |
| F Feb 8 | Mozart Operas | Listen to DWMA 132-133 & RESERVE
Read Ch 19: 383-87 |
| M Feb 11 | Concert Life in Vienna | Encounter 2 & 1st Bibliography
Due
Listen to DWMA 130, 134, 139, 146 Read Ch 19: 361-66, 387-93; Ch 20: 402-03; Ch 21: 444-46 |
| W Feb 13 | Schubert’s Vienna | Listen to DWMA 144-145 & 147
Read Ch 18: 354-55; Ch 21: 438-47 |
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| Classicism III—Beethoven: Portrait of a Great Man | ||
| F Feb 15 | Beethoven: First Period
(to 1802) |
Quiz No. 2
Listen to RESERVE Read Ch 20: 399-401, 403-08, 409-11 |
| W Feb 20 | Beethoven: Second Period (1802-1814) | Encounter 3
& Final Paper Topic Due Listen to DWMA 140 &142 Read Ch 20: 408, 415-23 |
| F Feb 22 | Reading Day (EC Jazz Fest) | |
| M Feb 25 | Beethoven: Third Period
(1815-1827) |
Listen to DWMA 141
& Voyager CD Companion Read Ch 20: 408-09, 412-15, 423-24 |
| W Feb 27 | Exam on Unit I (see essay) | |
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| Romanticism I—Paris & Romanticism | ||
| F Mar 1 | The Rise of the Virtuoso | Listen to DWMA 139, 149-151, 154 & 162-163
Read Ch 22: 455-58, 459-64, 473-74, 487-88, 492-93; Ch 23: 507-11 |
| M Mar 4 | Querelle des Bouffons to Grand Opera | Listen to DWMA 125, 148, 157 & 159
Read Ch 18: 351-52; Ch 20: 399-400; Ch 21: 425-33, 447-52, 453-54; Ch 22: 458-59, 477-81, 488-90, 494-95 |
| W Mar 6 | Berlioz and the
Paris Opera |
Listen to DWMA 157-158 & RESERVE
Read Ch 22: 469, 482-87 |
| F Mar 8 | Expansion of Grand Opera:
Verdi & Mussorgsky |
Listen to DWMA 161, 167 & RESERVE
Read Ch 23: 502-07; Ch 24: 526-37 |
| M Mar 11 | Sacred Works:
Mendelssohn & Brahms |
Encounter 4
& Final Bibliography Due Listen to DWMA 152, 165-166 & Brahms CD-ROM Read Ch 22: 458-59, 464-71; Ch 23: 515-24 |
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| Romanticism II—Wagner & the New German School | ||
| W Mar 13 | Liszt & the Symphonic Poem;
Wagner Influences & Contemporaries |
Listen to DWMA DWMA 143, 153-156, 162-164 & RESERVE
Read Ch 21: 433-38; Ch 22: 471-77; Ch 23: 507-24 |
| F Mar 15 | Video Presentation | Listen to RESERVE |
| M Mar 18 | The Composer Finds His Voice | Quiz No. 3
Listen to DWMA 160 & RESERVE Read Ch 23: 496-500 |
| W Mar 20 | Opera as Drama | Listen to DWMA 160 & RESERVE
Read Ch 23: 496-502, 524-25 |
| F Mar 22 | Wagner’s Legacy:
Post-Romanticism |
Encounter 5 & Paper Outline
Due
Listen to DWMA 169-170, RESERVE, & Voyager CD Companion Read Ch 25: 553-60 |
| Mar 23
-Mar 31 |
Spring Break | |
| M Apr 1 | Impressionism:
Debussy & Ravel |
Listen to DWMA 171-173 & RESERVE
Read Ch 25: 548, 561-71; Ch 26: 605-07 |
| W Apr 3 | Exam on Unit II (see essay) | |
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| 20th Century I—1908-1914: Seven Pivotal Years | ||
| M Apr 1 | Impressionism:
Debussy & Ravel |
Listen to DWMA 171-173 & RESERVE
Read Ch 25: 548, 561-71; Ch 26: 605-07 |
| W Apr 3 | Exam on Unit II (see essay) | |
| F Apr 5 | Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring | Listen to DWMA 182
& Voyager CD Companion Read Ch 24: 526-27, 534-37; Ch 26: 610-11 |
| M Apr 8 | Expressionism:
Second Vienna School |
Listen to DWMA 178, 180 & RESERVE
Read Ch 26: 595-601 |
| W Apr 10 | American Experimentalism:
Ives |
Encounter 6 Due
Listen to DWMA 175-176 & RESERVE Read Ch 24: 546; Ch 25: 572-78, 579-80 |
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| 20th Century II—Between the Wars: Neoclassicism vs. 12-Tone | ||
| F Apr 12 | Early Jazz, Gershwin,
Swing & Bebop |
Listen to RESERVE
Read Ch 25: 578-79; Ch 26: 616-17 |
| M Apr 15 | Bartók and Neo-Formalism | Quiz No. 4
Listen to DWMA 177 & RESERVE Read Ch 26: 581-88 |
| W Apr 17 | The Twelve-Tone Method Evolves | Listen to DWMA 179, 181
& RESERVE Read Ch 26: 595-604 |
| F Apr 19 | Stravinsky and Balanchine | Listen to DWMA 183 & RESERVE
Read Ch 26: 609-13 |
| M Apr 22 | Aaron Copland & Martha Graham | Encounter 7 Due
Listen to DWMA 184 & RESERVE Read Ch 26: 613-18, 619-22 |
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| 20th Century III—Music of the 1950s: A Decade in Ferment | ||
| W Apr 24 | Serialism | Listen to DWMA 185-187 & RESERVE
Read Ch 27: 623-25, 629-35, 636-37, 642-43 |
| F Apr 26 | Cool & Hard Bop;
R&B & Rock’n’roll |
Quiz No. 5
Listen to RESERVE Read Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz liner notes |
| M Apr 29 | Early Electronic Music
& Sound Mass |
First Draft of Paper Due
Listen to DWMA 189 & RESERVE Read Ch 27: 625-29, 633, 635-36, 638-42, 649-52 |
| W May 1 | John Cage & Chance Music | Listen to RESERVE
Read Ch 27: 643-47 |
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| 20th Century IV—Music of the 1960s and Beyond | ||
| F May 3 | The 60s Avant Garde | Listen to DWMA 188 & RESERVE
Read Ch 27: 644-46, 647-48 |
| M May 6 | Moog Synthesis,
60s Jazz & Rock |
Revised Draft of Paper Due
Listen to RESERVE Read Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz liner notes |
| W May 8 | Minimalism
& the New Romanticism |
Listen to DWMA 190-191 & RESERVE
Read Ch 27: 653-58 |
| F May 10 | Jazz Fusion
& the MIDI Revolution |
Encounter 8 Due
Listen to RESERVE & Voyager CD Companion Read Ch 27: 628-29 658-60 |
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| Finals Week | ||
| M May 13 | Final Draft of Paper Due
(4:00 pm) |
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| W May 15 | Music 343-01 Final Exam
(8:00-10:00 am) (see essay) |
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| F May 17 | Music 343-02 Final Exam
(10:30 am-12:30 pm) (see essay) |
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