Music 320/520

Nineteenth Century Music

Course Outline - Fall 2011

Please note: all dates are approximate; other readings may be assigned.
These outlines are not meant to replace lectures or reading,
but to serve as guides to studies of the topics

Date	Topic	Reading
Week 1	What is Romanticism? Early Beethoven	Plantinga ch. 1 ch. 2
Week 2	Middle and Late Beethoven	ch.3
Week 3	Contemporaries of Beethoven; Schubert	pp. 79-82, 91-103 Ch. 5, pp. 103-106
Week 4	Mendelssohn, Hensel	ch. 8
Week 5	R. Schumann, C. Schumann	ch.8
Week 6	Opera to 1850 - Italian	ch. 6
Week 7	Opera to 1850 - French
Week 8	Chopin	ch. 7
Week 9	Berlioz	ch.7
Week 10	Liszt	ch.7
Week 11	Wagner	ch.9
Week 12	Nationalism France Russia	pp. 441-6 ch. 11
Week 13	Nationalism: Bohemia Scandinavia	ch.11
Week 14	Brahms	pp. 411-40
Week 15	Opera after 1850	ch. 10

Important Dates

Class does NOT meet:

Thursday October 27 (WMEA Convention)
Friday October 28 (WMEA Convention)
Tuesday November 22 (NASM Annual Meeting)

RESEARCH PAPER due Tuesday December 6: hard copy in class, online submissions before midnight that night

Late research papers will not be accepted after THURSDAY DECEMBER 15, 2011 (last day of classes) AT NOON

FINAL EXAM MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011 from 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM in NFAC 221. PLEASE DO NOT ASK TO RESCHEDULE YOUR FINAL EXAM

ALL ONLINE WRITING ASSIGNMENTS must be submitted by THURSDAY DECEMBER 15, 2011 (last day of classes) AT 11:59 PM

ALL ONLINE QUIZZES must be completed by TUESDAY DECEMBER 20, 2011 AT 11:59 PM