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21M.250

Nineteenth-Century Music

3-0-9 units. HASS-A · Undergraduate

Surveys 19th century Western concert music including Lied/song, choral music, opera, piano sonata/character piece, concerto, and symphony/symphonic poem. Includes the composers Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Farrenc, Brahms, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Beach, Smyth, and Mahler. Bases written work and oral presentations on live performances as well as listening and reading assignments. Basic score-reading ability recommended.

Spring 2014 · Beethoven to Mahler

This course surveys Romantic musical genres including song, choral music, opera, piano sonata, character cycle, concerto, symphony, and symphonic poem, including the composers Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler. Written essays and oral presentations are based on live performances as well as listening and reading assignments.

Readings

  • [Taruskin 17th/18th] = Taruskin, Richard. Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Oxford History of Western Music . Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780199842155.
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  • [Taruskin] = Taruskin, Richard. Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780195384833.
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  • Solomon, Late Beethoven , Chapter 11 [Taruskin 17th/18th] pp. 675–82.
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  • Beethoven, Fidelio , Act I, Quartet [Taruskin] pp. 1–7.
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  • Rossini, Barber of Seville , Overture [Taruskin] pp. 7–27.
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  • Bellini, Norma , “Casta diva” [Taruskin] pp. 35–46.
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  • Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor , Act II finale [Taruskin] pp. 46–59.
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  • Heiden röslein , Reichardt and Schubert settings.
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  • Erlkönig , Reichardt and Schubert settings.
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  • An die ferne Geliebte , Beethoven.
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  • Gretchen am Spinnrade , Schubert.
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  • Dopplegänger , Schubert [Taruskin] pp. 119–63.
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  • Mendelssohn, Paulus , Nos. 2, 16, 36 [Taruskin] pp. 163–79.
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  • Fanny Mendelssohn, Ferne , Op. 9, No. 9.
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  • Fanny Mendelssohn, Verlust , Op. 9, No. 10 [Taruskin] pp. 179–86.
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  • Weber, Der Freischütz , Wolf Glen scene [Taruskin] pp. 187–205.
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  • Concert: Beethoven Violin Sonatas performed by Susanna Ogata & Ian Watson.
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  • Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots [Taruskin] pp. 205–32.
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  • R. Schumann, Dichterliebe Nos. 1, 2, 7, 8, 12, 16.
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  • R. Schumann, Phantasiestücke , Op. 12, No. 3 [Taruskin] pp. 289–318.
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  • Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique [Taruskin] pp. 318–41.
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  • Gottschalk, Souvenier de Puerto Rico.
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  • Gottschalk, Banjo [Taruskin] pp. 377–86.
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  • Balakirev, Overture on Russian Themes [Taruskin] pp. 467–78.
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  • Wagner, Götterdammerung [Taruskin] pp. 479–539.
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  • Wagner, Trisan und Isolde [Taruskin] pp. 539–62.
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  • Verdi, La traviata , beginning of Act I
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  • Verdi, Rigoletto , quartet [Taruskin] pp. 563–615.
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  • Musorgsky, Boris Godunov , Coronation scene [Taruskin] pp. 617–74.
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  • Chaikovsky, Eugene Onegin [Taruskin] pp. 639–43.
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  • Bizet, Carmen , Act I [Taruskin] pp. 643–51.
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  • Puccini, Madame Butterfly , [Taruskin] pp. 664–74.
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  • Brahms, Requiem , movement I.
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  • Mahler, “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” from Fünf Rückertlieder.
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  • Taruskin, Richard. Music in the Early Twentieth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music . Vol. 3. Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 1–23, 59–83, 97–129, and 599–601. ISBN: 9780195384840. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
    Required
  • 21 · Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde.
    Required
Fall 2006 · Schubert to Debussy

This course is a survey of developments in Western musical style, 1815-1915. Students will study works by 35 composers, including the romantics: Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann; the post-romantics: Wagner, Verdi, and Brahms; the turn-of-the-centurians: Mahler, Debussy, and Ravel; and the Americans: Gottschalk, Beach, and Joplin. Score-reading ability is beneficial.

Readings

  • Honour, Hugh. Romanticism . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780064300896.
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  • It is also suggested that you read or at least skim the appropriate entries for the given composers in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians .
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  • LEC #: 2 · TOPICS/COMPOSERS: Songs and Piano Music of Schubert and Mendelssohn · READINGS: Honour. Introduction, Chapter 1.
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  • LEC #: 3 · TOPICS/COMPOSERS: Songs and Piano Music of Schumann · READINGS: Honour. Chapter 7.
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  • LEC #: 11 · TOPICS/COMPOSERS: Weber and Wagner · READINGS: Honour. Chapter 8.
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  • LEC #: 15 · TOPICS/COMPOSERS: Smetana, Grieg, Dvorak, Moussorgsky · READINGS: Honour. Chapter 6.
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Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: 21M.301 or permission of instructor U (Spring) 3-0-9 units. HASS-A

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