Dr. Dan Lipori's Website: Music 374 Music History I

Daniel Lipori, Instructor
Spring 2008 Quarter
MTWTh 10-10:50 AM, Music Room 117

1. OFFICE HOURS: TBA
Office Phone: 963-1242
Email: liporid@cwu.edu
Web Page: http://www.cwu.edu/~liporid

Also whenever my office door is open, feel free to come in if you have any questions or problems concerning this course.

2. COURSE DESCRIPTION AND GOALS:

Music 374 is an introductory survey of the European art music of the Romantic and Modern periods.

Class time will be spent discussing historical background on the composers and musical styles of these periods. There will be several listening and score assignments to accompany the lectures. Reading assignments will be given daily to accompany the lectures.

A student earning a grade of C or higher will be able to:

1. Identify the different types of music available during the Romantic and Modern periods, either by music score or listening example. This will be assessed by correctly identifying music score and listening examples on class exams.

2. Demonstrate knowledge of the different musical forms and genres of Romantic and Modern periods, how they evolved, and their relationship within the culture and society of the time. This will be assessed by the written portion of the class exams as well as by analytical and compositional assignments.

3. Demonstrate knowledge of the primary composers of the Romantic and Modern periods. This will be assessed by being able to identify musical compositions of various composers as well as demonstrating knowledge of important biographical information on each.

4. Write in a scholarly manner about various styles of music. This will be assessed by short papers showing a strong command of the material. Theses papers will be graded not only for their content, but also for their proper format and structure.

3. TEXTS AND RESERVE ITEMS:

a. Required Texts:

Seaton, Douglass. Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1991.

Burkholder, J. Peter, and Claude V. Palisca, eds. Norton Anthology of Western Music. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 2006.

b. Reserve Items (To be held in Music Library):

Norton Anthology of Western Music. Vol. 2 (Recordings also available on my Blackboard site) (Also available for purchase)

Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin, eds. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. New York: Schirmer, 1984.

4. COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING:

a. Daily assignments:

(1) Assigned Readings from primary text and other sources as needed.
(2) Listening selections.
(3) Score study of items.

b. Evaluation:

(1) Romantic Exam 100 points.
(2) Prospectus 25 points.
(3) Rough Draft 50 points.
(4) Final Paper 100 points.
(6) Final Exam (mainly Modern with some Romantic) 150 points.

c. Grading:

425 total points possible
387-425 points=A
382-386points=A-
377-381 points=B+
345-376 points=B
340-344 points=B-
328-343 points=C+
302-327 points=C
297-301 points=C-
296-300 points=D+
255-095 points=D
0-254 points=F

d. Absences:

Attendance is not mandatory but strongly encouraged. If you know prior to a class meeting that you will be absent, please let me know beforehand so we are not waiting for someone to start a lecture. You are responsible for obtaining all materials covered during missed classes.

Verbal Changes to assignments, due dates, etc. given in class will always take precedence over what is written in the syllabus.

e. Late Assignments:

Personally, I feel that there is no good reason for turning an assignment in after the scheduled due date, other then your death. But, if something else should come up, here are my policies. An assignment is considered late if it is turned in after 12pm for a morning class or after 5pm for an afternoon class the day the assignment is due. Assignments will be lowered one letter grade for each class day late. A weekend will count for at least two days late. No assignments will be accepted after the scheduled final exam for the class.

5. RESEARCH PAPER:

Select a topic pertaining to some aspect of music from any period of history. Topics may be on any subject: history of an instrument; composer biography; important collection of music, etc., but must be primarily on Western Art (classical) music. (See me for topic ideas if needed). Papers will be between 10-12 pages of double spaced type (not including bibliography page). Include footnotes/endnotes/parenthetical references, bibliography, and title page.

Paper is due near the end of the quarter. Prior to turning in the final paper, you must also turn in a prospectus describing the topic you have chosen and a rough draft a few weeks before the final paper is due.

This assignment is meant to be an introduction to scholarly research in the music discipline. Prospectus and rough draft will be graded lightly as it is expected that each step towards the final paper will be improved over the previous step. Please come see me if you have any problems along the way.

6. PROPOSED CLASS SCHEDULE:

Week 1: 3/25-3/27

Research Paper Guidelines/Bibliography Format (pp. 479-86)

Rise of the Romantic Movement (pp. 323-30)

Week 2: 3/31-4/3

Early Lied (pp. 339-44) (Listening #’s 111, 112, 113)

Early Opera (pp. 344-50) (Listening #’s 125, 126)

Week 3: 4/7-4/10

Mature Romantic Period (pp. 353-61) (Listening #’s 124, 127)

Virtuosity (pp. 362-661) (Listening #’s 118, 119)

Mid Century Instrumental Music (pp. 366-77) (WT 340-45; 363-65) (Listening #’s 116, 121, 133)

Week 4: 4/14-4/17

Mon 4/14 Prospectus Due

Wagner (pp. 379-89) (Listening # 128)

Late Romantic Music (pp. 389-94) (Listening # 132)

Week 5: 4/21-4/24

Post Romantic Era (pp. 394-98) (Listening #’s 129, 137, 140)

Nationalism (pp. 398-405) (WT 390-94) (Listening # 130)

Catch Up/Review

Week 6: 4/28-5/1

Mon. 4/28 Romantic Exam Part 1

Tues. 4/29 Romantic Exam Part 2

Impressionism (pp. 407-11) (Listening # 138)

Primitivism (pp. 411-16) (WT 438-43) (Listening # 145)

Week 7: 5/5-5/8

Expressionism (pp. 416-19; 427-35) (Listening #’s 141, 142, 143, 144)

Early American (pp. 419-22) (Listening # 148)

Thurs. 5/8 Rough Draft Due

Week 8: 5/12-5/15

Neoclassicism (pp. 435-40) (Listening #’s 146, 153)

Nationalism (pp. 440-48) (Listening #’s 147, 154, 157)

Avant Garde (pp. 448-52) (Listening # 166)

Week 9: 5/19-5/22

Total Control/Electronic Music (pp. 455-64) (WT 421-23; 443-45; 483-87) (Listening #’s 160, 163, 164, 165)

Indeterminacy/Minimalism/New Romanticism (pp. 464-72) (Listening #’s 168, 169, 170)

Week 10: 5/26-5/29

Mon. 5/26 Memorial Day. No Class

Tues. 5/27 Final Paper Due

Influence of Jazz and Popular Music (pp. 472-78) (Listening # 158)

Current Trends

Catch Up/Review

Thurs. 6/5 Final Exam (10am-12pm)

Music 374. Music History 1800 to the present