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Texts: A History of Western Music
by Donald J. Grout
Norton, Anthology of Western Music (3rd Edition) Edited
by Claude V. Palisca Volume II

Introduction to the class

The beginning of the Classical Style - The Style Galant-Form
Development of the Sonata-Allergo form - The Mannheim School
Opera Reform - C. W. Gluck (1714-1787) -
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)

L. V. Beethoven (1770-1827)

Exam I

Romanticism & Beethoven
The Abstract vs. Program Schools
Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin

Schumann
Brahms
Program Music-Berlioz

Liszt, Wagner, Nationalism, The Russian 5, Tchaikovsky

Verdi, La Traviata

The Late Romantic, Impressionism

Stravinsky

Stravinsky - Bartok

Bartok - The 12-Tone School

Other 20th Century Composers and the Avante Garde

Notes: The text discusses the same composer in different areas according to the types of music (vocal, instrumental, etc.). Be sure you have read all corresponding material at the time we discuss them in lecture. You will read all of the text (19th & 20th centuries) by the end of the semester.

Concert Requirement - Everyone - 2 campus concerts
Music major - 2 more concerts or term paper

Grade Policy - 3 Exams - 30% each
Reports, Papers, Attendance 10%