Historical Eras and Topics: Later Periods

1 Course Unit

Classes under this number offer a more in-depth look at historical eras and topics or repertoires associated with a specific period of music history. Classes will focus on one historical epoch (Enlightenment, Romantic, Modernism, etc.). The purpose of this course is to give students the opportunity to engage deeply with musical objects, both historically and analytically, as well as to expose them to a range of methodologies with which to study music. Topics include: music in the Enlightenment; music in the long nineteenth-century; and musical modernisms. 1 Course Unit