MUSC 2082 - Music History 2: Classical to Present

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3
Course Description: This course explores the development of Western art music from the Classical Era to the present. Topics include the lives and works of notable composers, the advancement of music theory, the changing role of music in Western civilization, and the development of styles and genres within musical, historical, and social contexts.
MnTC Goals
MnTC Goal 6 Humanities and Fine Arts

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: ENGL 1020/1021 and MUSC 1070

Major Content
 

1. The Classical Era
   1. Classical Society and the Enlightenment
   2. The Classical Style
   3. The Industrial Revolution
   4. Classical Composers including:
      1. Haydn
      2. Mozart
      3. Beethoven
   5. Classical Genres including:
      1. Symphony
      2. classical concerto
      3. string quartet
      4. opera
2. The Romantic Era
   1. Romantic Aesthetics and Philosophy
   2. Program Music/Absolute Music
   3. Art Music vs. Popular Music
   4. Nationalism
   5. Romantic Composers including:
      1. Schubert
      2. Schumann (Robert and Clara)
      3. Chopin
      4. Liszt
      5. Mendelssohn (Felix and Fanny)
      6. Brahms
      7. Wagner
   6. Romantic Genres including:
      1. Lied
      2. tone poem
      3. Romantic symphony
      4. Romantic opera
3. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
   1. Technology and Global Politics
   2. Aesthetics and Trends in Art and Music
   3. Composers of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
   4. Impressionism, Expressionism, Primitivism, Neoclassicism
   5. Serial Music/Atonality
   6. The rise of recorded music
   7. Film Music
   8. Jazz
   9. Chance Music/Aleatoric music
   10. Electronic Music
   11. Minimalism
   12. Modernism
   13. Post-modernism
   14. Globalization

1. describe the impact of significant composers and works in the Western art music tradition from the Classical Era to the present. 
2. describe the development of music styles, forms, and genres from the Classical Era to the present.
3. describe the development of music notation, theory, and aesthetics from the Classical Era to the present.
4. analyze significant works and trends Western art music from the Classical Era to the present.
5. articulate the changing relationship between music and society from the Classical Era to the present.
6. explain the ways in which Western art music was shaped by broad political, cultural, and economic trends, and by the values of the society that produced it.

06.b. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06.c. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None

Practicum hours per week: 0

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