Class #1: Introduction, musical meaning, elements of music
Lecture slides: QCC – August 26
Recordings of pieces played in class are available here.
Class #2: Controversies in religious Renaissance music
Class discussion notes: What Is Music? 01 What is music discussion
Lecture slides: QCC – September 2
Recordings of pieces played in class are available here.
Texts of pieces played in class: 02 texts
Class #3: Court music and the patronage system
Lecture slides: 03-patronage-system
Handout, French court music: rameau-an-account-at-versailles
Handout, Bach’s contract in Leipzig: bach-duties-in-leipzig
Recordings of pieces played in class are available here.
Class #4: The Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of the middle class
Lecture slides: 04-enlightenment-rev4
Recordings of pieces played in class are available here.
Purchase handout (Enlightenment readings): 04-handout-the-enlightenment
Class #5: Hero Worship: Napoleon and Beethoven
Lecture slides: 05-beethoven
Recordings of pieces played in class are available here.
QCC handout (reactions to Beethoven): 05-handout-quotes-on-beethoven
Purchase handout (reactions to Beethoven): 05-handout-quotes-on-beethoven-1805-1862
Class #6: Cultural Identity and Volk (Franz Schubert)
Lecture slides: 06-schubert
Recordings of pieces played in class are available here
Text of the Lied: Franz Schubert, Der Erlkönig 06-schubert-texts-erlkonig
QCC in-class examples of music analysis 06-writing-examples-of-analysis
QCC writing suggestions 06-general-editing-suggestions
Class #7: From the East: Opium and percussion
Lecture slides: 07-east
Recordings of the pieces played in class are available here
Handout (Berlioz’ program note for Symphonie fantastique): 07-berlioz-program-note
Map handout: 07-worksheet-map
Class #8: The dark, the creepy, and the macabre
Following the midterm, we held a class-driven discussion about music by Arnold Schoenberg. This discussion was based on questions students developed in-class to guide themselves to understand a piece of music, and there are no lecture notes.
Handout (examples of Expressionist poetry): 08-expressionist-poetry
Recordings of music played in class are available here
Class #9: The Belle Époque: from the Franco-Prussian War (1871) to World War I (1914)
Lecture slides: 09-french
Recordings and texts of the pieces played in class are available here
Class #10: Unwelcome minorities and (im)migration
Lecture slides, Purchase: 10-minorities-purchase
Lecture slides, QCC: 10-minorities-qcc
Handout, Johann Nikolaus Forkel: 10-handout-forkel
Handout, Clara Schumann: 10-clara-writings
Recordings and texts of the pieces played in class are available here
Class #11: Musicians in World War II: Olivier Messaien and Dmitri Shostakovich
Lecture slides: 11-wwii
Lecture slides, in-class writing lesson (QCC): 11-in-class-writing-lesson-analysis
Handout (Purchase), 2004 incoming freshman address at Boston Conservatory: here
Handout (Purchase), writings by Béla Bartók on music making in communist Hungary and reviews of Dmitri Shostakovich in Pravda:
Recordings of the pieces played in class are available here.
Class #12: Minimalism
Lecture slides: 12-minimalism
Handout, Rzewski score: rzewski-coming-together
Handout, Rzewski performance notes: rzewski-coming-together-notes
Recordings of the pieces played in class are available here.
Class #13: Multiculturalism
Lecture slides: 13a-multiculturalism
Handout, symphonies: 13-symphony-review-list
Handout, 20th century works: 13-20th-c-list
Handout, writings from William Grant Still and Olly Wilson (Purchase only):
Recordings of the pieces played in class are available here.
Class #14: Anti-materialism
Lecture slides: 14-anti-materialism
Handout, list of pieces studied in class this semester: 14-review-list
In-class final exam review slides: 14-final-review
Recordings of the pieces played in class are available here.
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