MUSIC HISTORY 203 – SYLLABUS

(Spring, 2012)

 

Instructor:  John Spitzer

Email:  john.spitzer@notes.sfcm.edu

Class meets: Section 1 - Tuesday-Thursday 9-9:50, Room 319

                    Section 2 – T-Th. 10-10:50, Room 319

Office Hours:  Wednesday (by appointment), Room 405

Course website: www.sfcmhistory.com/Spitzer/203_home.html 

 

Textbooks

Norton Anthology of Western Music, 6th  edition, ed. Burkholder & Palisca, (2010), Volume 1-2  (“NAWM”) (Required)

J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout & Claude V. Palisca: A History of Western Music, 8th edition (2010) (“Grout”)  (Supplementary)

 

Jan     17-19       Opera seria

                         NAWM 90 – A. Scarlatti, Griselda (aria)

                         NAWM 99– G. F. Handel, “V’adoro pupille” (Giulio Cesare, Act 2)

                         NAWM 102 – J. A. Hasse, Cleofide (aria)

                         Grout:  386-391, 454-467, 489-494  

                        

          24           Handel’s Life and Times

                         NAWM 100 – G. F. Handel, Saul (excerpt)

                         SUPPL – G. F. Handel, Giulio Cesare, Act 1 (excerpt)

                         Grout: 457-471

                         Prep 1 due

 

          26           Baroque instrumental forms

                         NAWM 91 – Arcangelo Corelli, Trio Sonata Opus 3 No. 2

                         NAWM 92 – Dieterich Buxtehude, Praeludium in E Major for organ

                         NAWM 93 – Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto, Op. 3 No. 6

Grout: 403-409, 420-427

 

Jan 31-Feb 2     J.S. Bach

                         NAWM 96 – J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor for organ

                         NAWM 98 – J. S. Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (cantata)

                         SUPPL – Bach concerto BWV 1060

                         Grout:  441-457

                         Prep 2 due

 

            7-9        18th-century instrumental music forms

                         NAWM 106 – Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in D major

                         NAWM 109 – Johann Stamitz, Symphony in Eb major

                         NAWM 114 – W.A. Mozart, Sonata in F major, K. 332

                         Grout:  510-517, 519-524, 553-555

                         Repertory Quiz [through Bach]

 

Feb    14-16       Joseph Haydn   

                         NAWM 111 – Joseph Haydn, String Quartet Op. 33, #2 last mvt.

                         NAWM 112 – Symphony No. 92 in G (Oxford)

                         SUPPL – Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, op. 33 # 2 all

                         Grout: 525-546

                         Prep 3 due

 

          21-23       Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

                         NAWM 115 – Piano concerto in A major, 1st mvt.

                         NAWM 116 – Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter"), 4th mvt.

                         NAWM 117 – Don Giovanni, Act 1, scenes 1-2

                         Grout:  546-565

                         Prep 4 due

 

Feb 28-Mar1      Beethoven

                         NAWM 118 – Piano sonata in C Minor (Pathétique) – 3rd mvt.

                         NAWM 119 – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat (Eroica) – 1st mvt.

                         NAWM 120 – String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131 (excerpts)

                         Grout: 568-594

                         Prep 5 due

         

            6           Lied and song

                         NAWM 121 – Franz Schubert, “Gretchen am Spinnrade”

                         NAWM 122 – Franz Schubert, “Der Lindenbaum”

                         NAWM 123 – Robert Schumann, “Im wunderschönen Monat Mai”

                         NAWM 136 – Fanny Mendelsohn Hensel – "Im Wald"

                         SUPPL – Thomas Moore, “At the mid-hour of night”

                         Grout:  595-604, 605-615

                         Prep 6 due

 

            8           Romantic keyboard music                

                         NAWM 125 – Robert Schumann, Carnaval (excerpts)

                         NAWM 126 – Frederick Chopin, Mazurka Op. 7, No. 1

                         NAWM 127 – Frederick Chopin, Nocturne in D-flat

                         NAWM 128 – Franz Liszt – Un sospiro

                         NAWM 129 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Souvenir de Porto Rico

                         Grout:  616-631

 

          13           Bel canto opera

                         NAWM 137 – Rossini, "Una voce poco fa " (Barber of Seville)

                         NAWM 138 – V. Bellini, "Casta diva" (Norma)

                         SUPPL – Gaetano Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1, scene 2

                         Grout:  661-673

 

          15           EXAM  [through Romantic keyboard]

                        

Mar 20-22          NO CLASS (SPRING BREAK)

 

Mar    27-29       Giuseppi Verdi

                         NAWM 142 – La Traviata, Act III, scena and duet

                         SUPPL – Verdi, La Traviata, Act I excerpt

                         Grout:  702-709

                         Prep 7 due

           

Apr     3-5         Symphony and tone poem

                         NAWM 130 – Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, 5th mvt

                         NAWM 132 - Robert Schumann, Symphony No 4 in D minor, 1st mvt

                         NAWM151–Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 6 ("Pathétique"), 3rd mvt.

                         SUPPL – Robert Schumann, Symphony No 4 in D minor, 4th mvt

                         SUPPL – Franz Liszt, Les préludes

                         SUPPL – Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 6, 4th mvt.

                         Grout:  633-644, 647-648, 712-714, 735-738, 754-755

                         Prep 8 due

 

Apr    10-12       Nationalism and exoticism

                         NAWM 145 – Modest Musorgsky, Boris Godunov, Coronation scene

                         NAWM 152– Antonin Dvorak, Slavonic Dance Op. 46, No. 1 (4 hands)

                         SUPPL – Dvorak, Slavonic Dances Op. 46 No. 1, 2, 7, 8 (orchestra)

                         NAWM 143 – Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly (Act 1, excerpt)

                         NAWM 144 – Bizet, Carmen, Seguidilla and duet

                         Grout:  707-709, 710-711, 712-720, 754-750

                         Repertory Quiz [Bel canto through Symphony]

 

          17-19       Chamber Music

                         NAWM 133 – Franz Schubert, String Quintet in C major, 1st mvt

                         NAWM 148 – Johannes Brahms, Quintet op. 34 in F minor, 1st mvt

                         NAWM 153– Amy Marcy Beach, Quintet in F# minor

                         Grout: 648-652, 728-735, 762-763

                         Prep 9 due

         

          24-26       Wagner

                         NAWM 141- Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Act 1 (excerpts)

                         SUPPL – Wagner, Die Götterdämmerung, Act 1 (excerpt)

                         Grout:  690-702

                         Prep 10 due

 

May     1           Open

 

            3           Exam  [Bel canto through Wagner]