Music in the Romantic Period

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course focuses on the Romantic Period spanning the "long" nineteenth-century in European music, culture, and society. The content will investigate representative composers and their principal compositions including Beethoven, Berlioz, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Verdi and Wagner among others. We will also examine characteristic musical genres such as the symphony, string quartet, sonata, lied, tone poem, opera, and concerto. Varied sources including scholarly essays, historical readings and music will be incorporated in the course outline.