PROGRAM MUSIC IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

This course will explore grammaticism in Western art music with a particular focus on orchestral repertoire of the nineteenth century (including works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, and Debussy). Alongside formal issues, we will consider historical perspectives on this repertoire as well as long-lived aesthetic debates about music's capacity to represent the external world.