Music 344 Course Schedule

Spring 2002


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Unit I—
Classical Era
Unit II—
Romantic Era
Unit III—
20th Century
The Symphony—
Evolution of a New Genre
Paris &
Romanticism
1908-1914—
Seven Pivotal Years
Vienna—
Musical Crossroads of Europe
Wagner
&
The New German School
Between the Wars—
Neoclassicism vs. 12-Tone
Beethoven—
Portrait of a Great Man
Music of the 1950s—
A Decade in Ferment
Finals Week
Music of the 1960s and Beyond

Unit I—The Classical Era

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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Unit II—The Romantic Era

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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Unit III—The Twentieth Century

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)
W May 15 Music 343-01 Final Exam
(8:00-10:00 am) (see essay)
F May 17 Music 343-02 Final Exam
(10:30 am-12:30 pm) (see essay)

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