Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2017-2018
MUSI 534 - PROGRAM MUSIC
Long Title: PROGRAM MUSIC IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Department: Music
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Description: This course will explore grammaticism in Western art music with a particular focus on orchestral repertoire of the nineteenth century (including works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, and Debussy). Alongside formal issues, we will consider historical perspectives on this repertoire as well as long-lived aesthetic debates about music's capacity to represent the external world.