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Music Appreciation II

Course Credits: 15

Course Curriculum Used:

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

A series of 24 lectures by Robert Greenburg

Course Description
This course explores music from the Classical Era to the early 20th century. It covers the "e;grammar"e; of music, the influence of social context on musical creation, and the contributions of nearly every major composer.

The lectures will be supplemented by opportunities to attend a variety of musical performances, and discuss the performances with others.

  1. Classical-Era Form-Sonata-Allegro Form II
  2. Classical-Era Orchestral Genres-The Symphony-Music for Every Person
  3. Classical-Era Orchestral Genres-The Solo Concerto
  4. Classical-Era Opera-The Development of Opera Buffa
  5. Classical-Era Opera-Mozart and the Operatic Ensemble
  6. The French Revolution and an Introduction to Beethoven
  7. Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, Part 1
  8. Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, Part 2
  9. Introduction to Romanticism
  10. Formal Challenges and Solutions in Early Romantic Music-Miniatures-Lieder and Chopin
  11. Formal Challenges and Solutions in Early Romantic Music-The Program Symphony-Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Part 1
  12. Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Part 2
  13. Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera-Bel Canto Opera
  14. Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera-Giuseppe Verdi
  15. Nineteenth-Century German Opera-Nationalism and Experimentation
  16. Nineteenth-Century German Opera-Richard Wagner
  17. The Concert Overture, Part 1
  18. The Concert Overture, Part 2
  19. Romantic Nationalism-Post-1848 Musical Nationalism
  20. Russian Nationalism
  21. The Early Twentieth Century and the Modernist Movement-An Introduction
  22. Early Twentieth-Century Modernism-The Search for a New Musical Language-Debussy
  23. Early Twentieth-Century Modernism-The Search for a New Musical Language-Stravinsky
  24. Early Twentieth-Century Modernism-The Search for a New Musical Language-Schönberg

Musical Performances Attended

It has been a stellar year for Music Appreciation. In the past 9 months I have attended 86 performances. Some of the most memorable are listed below.

Gil and Orli Shaham (violin and piano)

Joan Kwuon, violin and Edward Robie, piano

Orion String Quartet

Emerson String Quartet