Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

MUSI 626 - THE CLASSICAL STYLE

Long Title: THE CLASSICAL STYLE
Department: Music
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A study of the way in which Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven create large musical forms that have purely musical meaning which does not derive from a text. We will consider various approaches to understanding musical meaning including rhetoric, structure, and style.