History of Western Music: 18th and 19th Centuries

A comprehensive survey of the music and history of the eras comprising the Viennese classical period (Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven), Romanticism and the Romantic period (Schubert to Brahms), and the advent of Modernism (Mahler, R. Strauss, and their contemporaries). The course emphasizes listening, analysis, and critical interpretation and will engage students with the cultural contexts of this music, including historical, aesthetic, stylistic and biographical topics.

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