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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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• Unit Title

  Music History: Classic to Romantic

• Unit Code

  MUS3508

• Year

  2016

• Enrolment Period

  2

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  10

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

Description

This unit explores the history of music in Western Europe from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The unit will focus on principal stylistic developments in the major genres of the period, considering how developments in musical form and style reflected the changing expressive aspirations of composers, the performance practices of musicians, and the listening habits of audiences. Students will continue to extend their skills in critical listening, score study, and basic musicological research.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MUS1516

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate a close familiarity with a number of pivotal works from the Classical and Romantic periods.
2. Discuss historical conventions of performance practice.
3. Explain important musical concepts, ideas, and terms as they apply to the music of the Classical and Romantic periods.
4. Recognise, by listening and/or score study, the fundamental elements of Classical and Romantic music.
5. Situate musical works within a cultural context.

Unit Content

1. Enlightenment and the galant.
2. Lied, solo piano music, and salon culture.
3. Ludwig van Beethoven.
4. Nationalism and exoticism.
5. Opera and music drama in the nineteenth century.
6. Programmatic orchestral music in the nineteenth century.
7. Romanticism and idealism.
8. Sonata, symphony, and opera in the early classical period.
9. The New German School.
10. The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart.
11. The study of representative works of significant Classical and Romantic composers, and the cultural milieu in which they are situated.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Tutorials, Individual Listening, Reading, Score Study.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Text References

• ^ Burkholder, P.J. et. al. (2014). Norton recorded anthology of Western music, volume 2, classic to romantic. (7th ed.). New York: Norton.
• ^ Burkholder, P.J. et. al. (2014). Norton anthology of Western music, volume 2, classic to romantic. (7th ed.). New York: Norton.
• ^ Burkholder, P.J. et. al. (2014). A history of Western music. (9th ed.). New York: Norton & Co. Note: Seminal Reference.
• Frisch, W. (2012). Music in the eighteenth century, Western music in context. USA: Norton.
• Finson, J.W. (2001). Nineteenth-century music, the western classical tradition. USA: Prentice-Hall.
• Dahlhaus, C. (1989). Nineteenth-century music, transl., Robinson, B. Berkley, CA: University of California Press.
• Rice, J.A. (2012). Music in the nineteenth century, Western music in context. USA: Norton.
• Taruskin, R. (2005). The Oxford history of Western music, volumes 2-3. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Note: Seminal Reference.
• Weiss, P., & Taruskin, R. (2008). Music in the Western world, a history in documents. (2nd ed.). USA: Thomson. Note: Seminal Reference.
• Downs, P.G. (1992). Classical music, the era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. New York, NY: Norton.

Website References

• Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford Univesity Press. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.ecu.edu.au
• Naxos Music Library. http://www.ecowan.naxosmusiclibrary.com.ezproxy.ecu.edu.au

^ Mandatory reference