MUSIC HISTORY 203 – SYLLABUS

(Spring, 2010)

 

Instructor:  John Spitzer

Email:  jspitzer@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, 5th  edition, ed. Burkholder & Palisca, (2005), Volumes 1-2  (“NAWM”) (Required)

J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout & Claude V. Palisca: A History of Western Music, 7th edition (2005) (“Grout”)  (Supplementary)

 

Jan     19           Baroque Instrumental music (solo)

                         NAWM 78 – Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Suite for harpsichord

                         NAWM 84 – Dieterich Buxtehude, Praeludium in E Major for organ

                         Grout:  366-372, 405-410, 410-412

 

          21           Baroque Instrumental music (ensemble)

                         NAWM 83 – Arcangelo Corelli, Trio Sonata, Op. 3 No. 2

                         NAWM 85 - Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto, Op. 3 No. 6          

                         SUPPLEMENTARY – Bach concerto BWV 1060

                         Grout:  391-400, 421-429

 

          26           Opera seria

                         NAWM 91 – G. F. Handel “V’adoro pupille” (Giulio Cesare, Act 2)

                         NAWM 94 – J. A. Hasse, Cleofide (aria)

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

                         Grout:  386-391, 420-421, 460-464, 490-495

                         Prep 1 due

 

          28           Same

 

Feb    2             New opera in the 18th century

                         NAWM 93 – G. B. Pergolesi, La Serva padrona (excerpt)

                         NAWM 96 – C. W. Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice

                         Grout:  485-490, 497-500

                         Prep 2 due

 

          4             Handel’s Life and Times

                         NAWM 92 – G. F. Handel, Saul

                         Grout: 457-471

 

          9             J.S. Bach

                         NAWM 88 – J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor for organ

                         NAWM 90 – J. S. Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (cantata)

                         Grout:  441-457

                         Prep 3 due

 

          11           Same

 

          16           Instrumental music forms

                         NAWM 98 – Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in D major

                         NAWM 101 – Johann Stamitz, Symphony in Eb major

                         NAWM 105 – W.A. Mozart, Sonata in F major, K. 332

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

                         Repertory Quiz [through Bach]

 

          18           Same     

 

          23           Joseph Haydn   

                         NAWM 103 – Joseph Haydn, String Quartet Op. 33, #2 last mvt.

                         NAWM 104 – Symphony No. 92 in G (Oxford)

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

                         Grout: 525-546

                         Prep 4 due

 

          25           Same

 

Mar     2            Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

                         NAWM 106 – Piano concerto in A major, 1st mvt

                         NAWM 107 – Don Giovanni, Act 1, scenes 1-2

                         Grout:  546-565

                         Prep 5 due

 

          4             Same

 

          9             Beeethoven

                         NAWM 108 – Piano sonata in C Minor (Pathétique) – 3rd mvt.

                         NAWM 109 – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat (Eroica) – 1st mvt.

                         NAWM 110 – String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131 (excerpts)

                         Grout: 568-594

                         Prep 6 due

 

          11           Same

          16           Lied and song

                         NAWM 111 – Franz Schubert, “Gretchen am Spinnrade”

                         NAWM 112 – Franz Schubert, “Der Lindenbaum”

                         NAWM 113 – Robert Schumann, “Im wunderschönen Monat Mai”

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

                         Grout:  605-615

 

          18           EXAM  [through Beethoven]

                        

Mar 22-24          NO CLASS (SPRING BREAK)

 

          30           Romantic keyboard music

                         NAWM 118 – Frederick Chopin, Nocturne in D-flat

                         NAWM 119 – Franz Liszt – Un sospiro (concert etude)

                         NAWM 120 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Souvenir de Porto Rico

                         Grout:  615-629

                         Prep 7 due

 

Apr     1             Bel canto opera

                         NAWM 125 – G. Rossini, Una voce poco fa (Barber of Seville)

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

                         Grout:  659-676

         

           6            Giuseppi Verdi

                         NAWM 127 – La Traviata, Act III, scena and duet

                         SUPPLEMENTARY – Verdi, La Traviata, Act I excerpt

                         Grout:  679-688

                         Prep 8 due

 

           8            Same

           

          13           Symphony and tone poem

                         NAWM 121 – Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, 5th mvt

                         NAWM 132 – Johannes Brahms, Symphony No 4 in E minor, 4th mvt

                         SUPPLEMENTARY – Robert Schumann, Symphony No 4 in D minor, 1st mvt, 4th mvt

                         SUPPLEMENTARY – Franz Liszt, Les préludes

                         Grout:  632-645, 718-726, 726-732

 

          15           Same     

                         Repertory Quiz [Schubert through Verdi]

          20           Nationalism and exoticism

                         NAWM 130 – Modest Musorgsky, Boris Godunov, Coronation scene

                         NAWM 129 – Bizet, Carmen, Seguidilla and duet

                         SUPPLEMENTARY – Bedrich Smetana, Tabor (from Ma Vlast)

                         SUPPLEMENTARY – Felicien David, The Desert (excerpts)

                         Grout:  679-683, 698-701, 701-711, 741-747                  

                         Prep 9 due

 

          22           Same

         

          27           Same

                         Prep 10 due

 

          29           Wagner

                         NAWM 128- Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Act 1 (excerpt)

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

                         Grout:  690-698

 

May     4           Same

 

           6            Exam  [Lied and song through Wagner]