Music 221 Course Outline

all dates are approximate and subject to change

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Date Topic Reading in Grout
Jan 21 Intro to Baroque Period 268-76
Jan 23 no class
Jan 26 Early Opera 276-90
Jan 28 Early Opera
Jan 30 Roman Opera 288-93
Feb 2 Venetian Opera, secular vocal music
Feb 4 Secular Vocal Music 293-99
Feb 6 Sacred Vocal Music 299-308
Feb 9 Sacred Vocal Music
Feb 11 Early Baroque Instrumental Music 308-18
Feb 13 Early Baroque Instrumental Music
Feb 16 Late 17th Century Opera 323-37
Feb 18 Late 17th Century Opera
Feb 20 EXAM 1
Feb 23 Late Baroque Instrumental Music: Organ 359-66
Feb 25 Late Baroque Instrumental Music: Clavier 366-71
Feb 27 Late Baroque Ensemble Music, Vivaldi 381-85, 389-96
Mar 2 Concerto, Vivaldi; JS Bach: Instrumental Music 403-13
Mar 4 JS Bach: Instrumental Music 414-23
Mar 6 JS Bach: Vocal Music 423-35
Mar 9 JS Bach: Vocal Music; GF Handel
Mar 11 Handel, Early 18th Century Opera, Oratorio
Mar 13 Handel, Transition to Classical, Comic Opera 461-63
Mar 14-22 SPRING BREAK
Mar23 Comic Opera
Mar 25 Opera Reform 463-66
Mar 27 Opera Reform
Mar 30 Jean Philippe Rameau 396-403
Apr 1 Preclassic Keyboard Sonatas 469-72
Apr 3 Pre-Classic Symphony 472-79
Apr 6 Pre-Classic Music
Apr 8 EXAM 2
Apr 10 Haydn and Mozart
Apr 13 Haydn Symphonies 487-96
Apr 15 Haydn Symphonies
Apr 17 Haydn Symphonies, String Quartets
Apr 20 Haydn String Quartets and Keyboard Works 496-505
Apr 22 Haydn Vocal Music, Mozart's Early Works 505-14
Apr 24 Mozart Symphonies 517-22
Apr 27 Mozart Symphonies, String Quartets
Apr 29 Mozart Quartets, Chamber Music, Sonatas 514-17
May 1 Mozart Concertos, Sinfonia Concertante 522-25
May 4 Mozart Operas 525-29
May 6 Mozart Operas
May 8 Transition to Romantic: Early Beethoven

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