MUSC 321:322
HISTORY OF MUSIC
MUSC321:322. History of Music
Three hours lecture (3,3).
Prerequisites: MUSC100
General survey of history and literature of music. Required of all music majors and open to students in other curricula. 321: fall; 322: spring. General Education credit – Fine Arts.
MUSC321:
l. Medieval Music
a. Monophonic Secular Music
b. Organum
c. Conductus
d. Motet
e. Secular music of the l4th century in France and Italy2. Renaissance Music
a. Mass
b. Chanson
c. Motet
d. Madrigal
e. Instrumental Music3. Early and Middle Baroque Music
a. Opera
b. Oratorio
c. Passion
d. Cantata
e. Fugue
f. Sonata
g. Concerto
h. Suite
i. Variation Works
j. Chorale-based works C.4. Late Baroque Music
a. The culmination of events in Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Rameau
MUSC322:
1. Classical Music
a. Haydn: Symphonies and String Quartets
b. Mozart: Operas, Symphonies, and Piano Concertic.
c. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Symphonies String Quartet
2. Romantic Music
a. Roots of Romanticism
b. Early Romantics: Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, Mendelssohn
c. Later Romantics: Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Verdi, Tchaikovsky
d. Post Romantics: Puccini, Mahler, Strauss
3. Twentieth Century Music
a. Impression: Debussy, Ravel
b. Nationalism: Early Stravinsky, Bartok
c. Neo-Classicism: Stravinsky, Hindemith
d. Schoenberg and his followers
e. Avant Garde
f. American Music
The course is mainly a lecture course, but with the inclusion of directed discussion through the playing of relevant examples of music in class.
At the conclusion of the course students will demonstrate knowledge of historical facts related to the development of central types of music congress and styles.
There are both listening tests as well as conventional written ones. The final exam is not comprehensive.
The students are encouraged to listen to as much music as possible and to connect it to the content of the course.
DATE ACTION REVIEWED BY
May 2006 Reviewed E. Fellin, Chairman