SYLLABUS

MUSIC 408 B

(timings are tentative)

Fall 2020

August 24 - September 11

Course organization.
Background
• Historical Background: revolutions, Napoleonic wars, social changes, intellectual movements.
• The tonal system: hierarchy and causality.
• Form in music. Theorists and musicians - the work as a living organism.
• Cells, motives, phrases, periods, "sentences".
• Binary and Ternary forms
  • Scarlatti sonata
    Assignment 1 Scarlatti sonata due 9/18

Fantasy; symmetry, balance, rhythm and the other parameters. "Through composed" ?
• Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K. 475.


Assignment 2 Mozart Fantasy C minor due 9/23

September 18 - October 30

Instrumental sonata
• First movement (9/18 - 10/2)
  • Exposition
    • Mozart - Piano sonata C minor K 457
    • Haydn - Symphony 104
    • Beethoven - Piano sonata Op. 53 "Waldstein"
    • Beethoven - Op. 101
  • Development
  • Reprise
    
    Assignment 3 Haydn String Quartet Op.33 No. 5 due 10/12
  • Concerto
    • Mozart - Piano concerto C major K 467
    • Beethoven - Piano concerto No.5 "Emperor" (to listen)
• Slow movement (10/5 - 10/12)
  • Lied (vocal)
    • Beethoven - In questa tomba oscura
    • Beethoven - An die ferne Geliebte
  • Haydn "Surprize" symphony 94
  • Beethoven - Eroica, 2nd movement
    Assignment 4 Beethoven "Eroica", second movement due 10/21
  • Beethoven - Piano sonata Op. 110 - recitativo
  • Beethoven Op.132
• Minuet/Trio (10/14 - 10/16)
  • Haydn - Piano sonata F Maj. XVI:9
  • Haydn - Haydn Symphony 104
  • Beethoven - Eroica - 3d. movement
• Finale (10/19 - 10/30)
  • Sonata - Haydn "Farewell" symphony 45
  • Rondo
    • Mozart - A la turca
  • Rondo-Sonata
    • Mozart - Piano concerto A Major
  • Sonata/Fugue
    • Beethoven - Piano sonata Op. 110
    • Beethoven - Piano sonata Op. 101 third and forth movements
    • Mozart - Jupiter
    • Beethoven - Grosse Fugue
    Assignment 5 Beethoven Op. 130 and 133 due 11/2
  • Beethoven - Op. 135 -"Muss es sein ?"

• Variations
  • Mozart - Sonata A Major
  • Beethoven - Op. 109 - relation with "An die ferne Geliebte"
  • Beethoven - Op. 111 (Arietta)
  Assignment 6 Beethoven Op. 109 due 11/13
  November 11 - 13
  • Oratorio
    • Haydn - Die Schopfung
  November 16 - 20
  • Mass
    • Beethoven - Missa solemnis

  BREAK

  November 30 - December 9
  • Opera
    • Mozart - Don Giovanni
    • Beethoven - Fidelio
  
  
  Final: Thursday December 17, 1:30 - 4:30 pm

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