Course Syllabus for

MUSC 120 - Intro to Music History Spring 2016

Class time: MWF 10:30-11:20 am Instructor: Andrew Bergevin Class Location: Brodie 210 Office: Brodie 108 Office hours: Mondays 9:15-10:15 am, and by appointment Email: bergevin@geneseo.edu

CourseDescriptionThisintroductorymusichistorycourseisasurveyofthehistoryofWesternmusicfrom476A.D.(thedeclineoftheRomanEmpire)untilpresent.EmphasiswillbeplacedonspeciBicworksofmusicthatembodyselectedimportantmusicalstyles,andessentialsocial,political,economicandculturalinBluencesonthatmusic.

TopicscoveredbythiscourseTheElementsofMusicTheMiddleAgesRenaissanceBaroqueTheClassicalPeriodRomanticismTheTwentiethandTwenty-FirstCenturies

StudentLearningOutcomesBytheendofthesemesteryoushouldbeableto:

1. Understandthefeaturesofallthemusicalstyleswhicharethefocusofthiscourse.2. Beabletodiscussthesestylesintermsoftheirmusicalcharacteristics,chronology,

representativecomposers,theirworks,andthesocialandpoliticalcontextsforeachofthestyleperiods.

3. Understandtheconventionalmusicalvocabularyrequiredforadiscussionofmusicandmusicalstyles.

4. Increaseyouraestheticsensitivity,auralperceptionandgeneralunderstandingofmusic.

TextbookMusic:AnAppreciationbyRogerKamien(11thEdition,2014)

GradingClassAttendanceandParticipation-10%ValidatedConcertAttendance(5concerts)–10%QuizonElementsofMusic-10%7-pagePaper-20%MidtermExam-20%FinalExam-30%

Absences Unexcusedabsencesarenotpermitted.Ifyoumustmissatestorexam,itisessentialthatyouinformmewellinadvanceofanyplannedabsence. Nomake-uptestsorexamswillbegivenwithoutalegitimate,documentedexcuse.Itistheresponsibilityofthestudenttoprovideadocumentedexcusefortheabsenceuponreturningtoclassandtoinitiatereschedulingofthatexam.FailuretodosowillresultinaZEROscoreforthattest/exam.

GradingscaleA: 100-95A-: 94-91B+: 90-88B: 87-84B-: 83-80C+: 79-76C: 75-71C-: 70-66D: 65-60E: 59-0

ElectronicdevicesPleaserespectyourclassmatesandtheinstructor.Allcellphonesandotherelectronicdevicesmustbeturnedoffforthedurationoftheclass.Novibratemode,please.

ImportantdatesWednesday,January20: FirstIntrotoMusicHistoryclassMonday,March7: MidtermExam Monday-Friday, March14-18: NOCLASSES-SpringBreakMonday,May2: LastClass/ListeningTest(papersaredue)Wednesday,May11,8:00am: FinalExam

ValidatedConcertAttendance(mustattend5ofthese-countsas10%ofthesemestergrade):

Saturday,February6: GeneseoStringBand JimKimball,caller 7pm,MacVittieCollegeUnionBallroom GeneralAdmission,$3.00;Students&Spectators,$1.00

Sunday,February7: GeneseoWindQuintet 3pm,DotyRecitalHall Admissionfree

Sunday,February21: GeneseoWindEnsemble,ErnestLascell,ConductorGeneseoClarinetChoirGeneseoSaxophoneQuartet3pm,WadsworthAuditorium Admissionfree

Sunday,February28: GeneseoSymphonyOrchestra JimTiller,Conductor 3pm,WadsworthAuditorium

Admissionfree

Saturday,March5 GeneseoStringBandPre.St.Pat’sConcert MusicandDanceintheCelticTradition

7pm,WadsworthAuditoriumGeneralAdmission$5.00;

Friday,March25 FridayAfternoonRecital 4pm,DotyRecitalHall

Sunday,April3 ErnestLascell,FacultyRecital WithJonathanGonder,Piano 3pm,DotyRecitalHall Admissionfree

Friday,April8 FridayAfternoonRecital 4pm,DotyRecitalHall

Sunday,April10 GeneseoSymphonyOrchestra, JimTiller,Conductor

Featuringstudentwinnersfromthe2015Concerto Competition

3pm,WadsworthAuditorium,Admissionfree

Friday,April15 NewMusicConcert DirectedbyDr.MichaelMasci

8pm,DotyRecitalHallAdmissionfree

Sunday,April17 GeneseoPianoTrio AndrewBergevin,violin,JamesKirkwood,cello,andJonathanGonder,piano3pm,DotyRecitalHallAdmissionfree

Friday,April22 GeneseoWindEnsemble,ErnestLascell,Conductor 8pm,WadsworthAuditoriumAdmissionfree

Sunday,April24 SpectrumWomen’sEnsemble, AmyCochrane,Conductor

GeneseoChamberSingers,Dr.GerardFloriano,Conductor

3pm,DotyRecitalHallAdmissionfree

Sunday,May1 GeneseoSymphonyOrchestra, JimTiller,Conductor

GeneseoFestivalChorus,Dr.GerardFlorianoConductor3pm,WadsworthAuditoriumGeneralAdmission$7.50;Students$5.00

Monday,May2 GeneseoPercussionEnsemble JimTiller,Conductor8pm,WadsworthAuditoriumAdmissionfree

NB: At all of these concerts, there will be a sign-in sheet for my class. Please make sure that you sign in to get credit for attending!

7-pagePaper(20%ofNinalgrade):

Dueonthelastclassofthesemester:Monday,May2.Itwillbehandedbacktoyou,graded,withcomments,attheFinalExam.Papershouldbeatleastseven(7)pages,doublespaced,12-pointfont.

ChooseapiecefromtheWesternClassicalCanon,byoneofthefollowingcomposers:JohannSebastianBach,FranzJosephHaydn,WolfgangAmadeusMozart,LudwigvanBeethoven,FranzSchubert,RichardWagner,GustavMahler,AaronCopland,IgorStravinsky,JohnCoolidgeAdams.

Describe,usingtheelementsofmusicterminologyoutlinedintheearlyclassesofthesemester,whatisgoingonthroughoutthepiece,frombeginningtoend,andalsowhat,asalistener,isaurallystrikingandemotionallymovingtoyouaboutthispiece.BeasspeciBicaspossible,citinginstrumentation,pitch,dynamics,articulation,harmony,etc.

Useatleastthreeoutsidesources(cited,please,usingMLAstyle)toBillmein,asthereader,onthehistoricalcontextofthechosenpiece:whatexternalfactorsgaverisetoitscomposition,andwhatwastheinitialcriticalreception?

AdetailedgradingrubricwillbehandedoutinclassonFriday,March11.

Accommodations:

SUNYGeneseowillmakereasonableaccommodationsforpersonswithdocumentedphysical,emotional,orlearningdisabilities.PleasecontacttheDirectorintheOfBiceofDisabilityServices(TabithaBuggie-Hunt,105DErwin,email:tbuggieh@geneseo.edu)andyourindividualfacultyregardinganyneededaccommodationsasearlyaspossibleinthesemester.

Class and Reading Schedule

January20:Introductions,OverviewofSyllabus,ElementsofMusic:Pitch,Intervals,Dynamics,ToneColor,PerformingMedia,RhythmReadingAssignment:p.4-35

January22:MoreElementsofMusic:Tempo,BasicNotationinTrebleandBassClefs,MelodyandItsShape,HarmonyandKeyReadingAssignment:p.36-62Listening: J.S.Bach:GibtmirmeinemJesumwieder(aria)fromtheSt.MatthewPassion

January25:MusicalTexture,BasicMusicalForms,DiscussiononPerformanceandMusicalStyle,TyingUpLooseEndsfromPreviousClasses,ReviewforQuizonElementsofMusic(IwilldistributeaveryspeciBicstudyhandout)ReadingAssignment:p.62-68Listening: HildegardvonBingen:OFrondensVirga WilliamByrd:Vigilate

January27:

QuizonElementsofMusic

January29:GregorianChant,SecularMusicintheMiddleAges,TheDevelopmentofPolyphony,NotreDameSchool,ArsNovaReadingAssignment:MusicintheMiddleAges,p.72-90Listening: HildegardvonBingen:Osuccessores Perotin:Alleluia,Nativitas GuillaumedeMachaut:Puisqu’enoublisuidevous GuillaumedeMachaut:AgnusDeifromMessedeNotreDame

February1:RenaissanceMotetandMassReadingAssignment:MusicintheRenaissance,SacredMusicintheRenaissancep.94-104Listening: JosquinDesprez:AveMaria…virgoserena WilliamByrd:Vigilate ThomasTallis:SpeminAlium GiovannidiPalestrina:KyriefromthePopeMarcellusMass

February3:RenaissanceMadrigals,InstrumentalMusic,PolychoralMusicReadingAssignment:SecularMusicintheRenaissance,TheVenetianSchoolp.104-114Listening: CarloGesualdo:Moro,lasso,almioduolo OrlandoGibbons:OClapYourHands JohnDowland:FlowMyTears MichaelPraetorius:PassamezzoandGalliardfromTerpsichore GiovanniGabrieli:Sonatapianeforte

February5:CharacteristicsofBaroqueMusic,BassoContinuo,BaroqueOrchestra,ConcertoGrossoReadingAssignment: BaroqueMusic,MusicinBaroqueSociety,TheConcertoGrossoand

RitornelloForm,p.118-130Listening: J.S.Bach:EtinSpiritumSanctumfromtheBMinorMass BarbaraStrozzi:Amor,nonsifugge J.S.Bach:BrandenburgConcertono.5,Allegro(1stmvt.)

February8:TheFugue,thePassacaglia,andtheBachChaconneindminorforsoloviolinReadingAssignment:TheFugue,p.131-134Listening: J.S.Bach:“Little”FugueinGminor,BWV578 J.S.Bach:PassacagliainCminorfororgan,BWV582 J.S.Bach:ChaconneinDminorforsoloviolin,BWV1004

February10:TheBeginningsoftheOpera,FrenchballetdecourReadingAssignment: TheElementsofOpera,OperainBaroqueEra,ClaudioMonteverdi,Henry

Purcellp.135-144Listening: IacopoPeri:Euridice;PrologueandChorus“Sede’Boschi” ClaudioMonteverdi:Orfeo;TocataandRitornello,Recitative:TuSe’Morta HenryPurcell:DidoandAeneas;Dido’sLament Jean-Baptiste Lully: Ballet de la Nuit (Act IV) - start clip at 3:28 February12:TheBaroqueSonataandBaroqueSuite ReadingAssignment:TheBaroqueSonata,ArcangeloCorelli,AntonioVivaldi,JohannSebastianBach, TheBaroqueSuitep.145-161Listening: J.S.Bach:SonatainCmajorforsoloviolin,BWV1005:I.Adagio,II.Fuga,III.Largo, IV.Allegroassai ArcangeloCorelli:TrioSonatainAminor,op.3,no.10 AntonioVivaldi:SpringfromTheFourSeasons: I.Allegro,II.Largoepianissimosempre(startsat3:31), III.DanzaPastorale(startsat6:03) February15:Bach’sCantatasandOratoriosandHandel’sMusic ReadingAssignment:TheChoraleandChurchCantata,TheOratoriop.161-169,GeorgeFrideric Handelp.169-180 Listening: J.S.Bach:Cantata:MeinHerzeSchwimmtinBlut,BWV199,Mvts.1,2,3,4,and8 (listenupto20:00mark,thenfrom22:35totheend) J.S.Bach:CoffeeCantata:Ei!WieSchmecktderKaffeeSüße(aria)

G.F.Handel:Messiah:Overture,ComfortYe(arioso),HallelujahChorus, Chorus:MyYokeisEasyandMyBurthenisLight

February17:TheClassicalPeriodReadingassignment:TheClassicalPeriod;Chapters1-9p.184-205Listening: W.A.Mozart:Symphonyno.40inGminor,K.550,4thmvt.(starttheclipat22:10) NiccolòPaganini:Capriceno.24from24Caprices W.A.Mozart:EineKleineNachtmusik,3rdmvt. LudwigvanBeethoven:StringQuartetinCminor,Op.18,no.4,4thmvt.

February19:FranzJosephHaydn(1732-1809)andWolfgangAmadeusMozart(1756-1791)Readingassignment:JosephHaydn,WolfgangAmadeusMozartp.205-233Listening: JosephHaydn:Symphonyno.88,4thmvt. JosephHaydn:TheCreation,“TheHeavensAreTelling”(chorus) W.A.Mozart:DieZauberclöteOverture W.A.Mozart:RequieminDminor,K.626:Introit

February22:Noreadingassignmenttoday.VideoDay:Amadeus(1984Bilm)-withinstructorcommentary

February24:Noreadingassignmenttoday.VideoDay(continuation):Amadeus(1984Bilm)IwillpassoutthelisteninglistfortheMidtermExamtoday.

February26:LudwigvanBeethoven(1770-1827)

GrowingupinBonn,Germany.Pianoprodigy.EncounterwithW.A.MozartinVienna.HiscompositionalstudieswithAntonioSalieriandFranzJosephHaydn.EarlyPeriod:Op.18setofstringquartets,PathetiqueSonata,Symphonyno.1

Readingassignment:LudwigvanBeethovenp.234-248Listening: L.vanBeethoven:SonatainCMinor,“Pathétique”,Op.13,mvts.1-3 (2ndmvt.startsat9:47,3rdmvt.startsat15:11) L.vanBeethoven:StringQuartetinFMajor,Op.18/1,mvts.1and2 L.vanBeethoven:Symphonyno.1inCmajor,Op.21,1st.mvt.

February29:Noreadingassignmenttoday.LudwigvanBeethoven,continuedMiddlePeriod:Op.59,74,95stringquartets,Symphoniesnos.3-8Listening: L.vanBeethoven:Symphonyno.3inE-clatmajor,“Eroica”,op.55,mvts.1and2 L.vanBeethoven:Symphonyno.5inCminor,“Fate”,Op.67,mvts.1,3,4 (3rdmvt.startsat19:10intheclip,4thmvt.startsat24:45) L.vanBeethoven:StringQuartetno.11inFminor,“Serioso”,Op.95,mvts.1-3 (3rdmvt.startsat6:43intheclipcontainingthe2ndand3rdmvts.)

March2:Noreadingassignmenttoday.LudwigvanBeethoven,continuedLatePeriod:Op.127,130,131,132,135stringquartets,Symphonyno.9,MissaSolemnisListening: L.vanBeethoven:TheConsecrationoftheHouseOverture,Op.124 L.vanBeethoven:SonatainEmajor,Op.109,mvts.1-3 (2ndmvt.startsat4:22,3rdmvt.startsat7:07) L.vanBeethoven:StringQuartetinC#minor,Op.131,mvts.1,2,3,5 (2ndmvt.startsat7:01,3rdmvt.startsat10:00,5thmvt.startsat23:46intheclip) L.vanBeethoven:Symphonyno.9inDminor,Op.125,mvt.4(startclipat55:23)March4:ListeningSessionandMidtermExamReviewHandout:WhattoKnowfortheExam(IwillbespeciBic!)

March7:MidtermExam

March9:TheRomanticPeriod,PartIReadingassignment:TheRomanticPeriod;Chapters1-5p.251-274Listening: TBD

March11:TheRomanticPeriod,PartIIReadingassignment:TheRomanticPeriod;Chapters6-9p.275-291Listening: TBDGradingRubricwillbehandedoutforthe7-pagePapertoday.Paperisdueinclass,Monday,May2.

March21:TheRomanticPeriod,PartIIIReadingassignment-TheRomanticPeriod;Chapters10-15p.292-318Listening: TBD

March23:Noreadingassignmenttoday.JohannesBrahms(1833-1897)

Thelastofthe“ThreeBs”.HisplaceinGermanClassicalMusicfollowingBach,Haydn,Mozart,andBeethoven.Hisfoursymphonies.Brahmsasaperfectionist.Brahmsvs.Wagner:abattleofideologiesinmusic.HistorturedloveforClaraSchumann,beforeandafterRobertSchumann’sdeath.Discussionoflaterworks,especiallytheClarinetQuintet,op.115.RelationshipwiththeviolinistJosephJoachim,andtheclarinetistRichardMühlfeld.

Listening: TBD

March25:Noreadingassignmenttoday.RichardWagner(1813-1883)

HisconceptoftheGesamtkunstwerk(“CompleteWorkofArt”).EarlylifeandadmirationofMozartandBeethoven.Hisantisemitismandscandalousrelationshipswithwomen.DiscussionofTristanundIsoldeandDerRingdesNibelungen.TheestablishmentoftheBayreuthFestival,whichcontinuestothepresentday.

Listening:TBD

March28:AntonBruckner(1824-1896)MentortoGustavMahler;BrucknerandMahlerasamusicalbridgebetweenWagnerianismandtheNewVienneseSchool.HighlightsofBruckner’spersonallife;hisSeventhandNinthSymphonies,hisrelationshipwiththeyoungMahler

GustavMahler(1860-1911)upbringinginBohemiaasaGerman-speakingJew;“alwaysanintruder,neverwelcomed”earlycareerasapianoprodigyandthenasaconductorinoperahouses;risetoconductoroftheViennaStateOpera(1897-1907),thenasconductorattheMetropolitanOperainNewYorkandtheNewYorkPhilharmonic.Asurveyofhissymphonies:1-4,andDasLiedvonderErde(TheSongoftheEarth)

Readingassignment-TheRomanticPeriod;Chapters16-18p.319-342Listening: TBD

March30:GustavMahler(1860-1911),continuedSurveyofhissymphonies:5-10(unBinished).Hisdeathandlegacy.Theproblemofhiswidow,AlmaMahler,especiallyrelatingtotheSymphonyno.10anditsBirst“completion”andrecordinginthe1960s.

Readingassignment:TheRomanticPeriod;Chapters19-20p.343-354Listening: TBD

April1:Noreadingassignmenttoday.RichardStrauss(1864-1949)Alookathisearlytonepoems:DonJuan,AlsoSprachZarathustra,EinHeldenlebenProgrammusic:EineAlpensinfonie(contrastedwithBeethoven’sdepictionsofnatureinhisSixthSymphony).Lookingovertheabyssintoatonality:SalomeandElektra.

Listening: TBD

April4:Noreadingassignmenttoday.RichardStrauss,continued StraussasthenewMozart:DelvingintoDerRosenkavalier.ANazicomposer?:Strauss’smessyrelationshipwiththeThirdReich,andhispost-warmusicalmasterpieces.

Listening: TBD

April6:The20thCentury,PartIReadingassignment:TheTwentiethCenturyandBeyond;Chapters1-3p.357-373Listening: TBD

April8:The20thCentury,PartII

Readingassignment:TheTwentiethCenturyandBeyond;Chapters4-7p.374-391Listening: TBD

April11:TheSecondVienneseSchoolArnoldSchoenberg(1874-1951)AlbanBerg(1885-1935)AntonWebern(1883-1945)

Readingassignment:TheTwentiethCenturyandBeyond;Chapters8-11p.392-408Listening: TBD

April13:BelaBartok(1881-1945)andDmitriShostakovich(1906-1975)

Readingassignment:BelaBartok,DmitriShostakovichp.408-416Listening: TBD

April15:CharlesIves,GeorgeGershwin,WilliamGrantStill,AaronCopland

ReadingAssignment:CharlesIves,GeorgeGershwin,WilliamGrantStill,AaronCoplandp.418-431Listening: TBD

April18:Noreadingassignmenttoday.TheAdventofMinimalisminAmerica:

TerryRiley(b.1935)InC

SteveReich(b.1936)Earlyworksbasedon“phasing”andtapedecks:It’sGonnaRainandComeOut.Reich’senduringmasterpiece:Musicfor18Musicians

PhilipGlass(b.1937)EinsteinontheBeach

Listening: TBD

April20:Noreadingassignmenttoday.“HolyMinimalism”asseenthroughGorecki,Tavener,andPärt.

HenrykGorecki(1933-2010)Symphonyno.3,Op.36.AlsoknownastheSymphonyofSorrowfulSongs.Atriptychofindependentlaments,fromadecidedlyCatholicreligiousviewpoint.ParticularfocusontheVirginMaryandmotherhood.

JohnTavener(1944-2013)TheProtectingVeil,anhomagetotheVirginMary,setinanEasternOrthodoxidiom.

ArvoPärt(b.1935)“Tintinnabuli”works:SpiegelimSpiegel(MirrorwithinaMirror),CantusinMemoryofBenjaminBritten.

Readingassignment:TheTwentiethCenturyandBeyond;Chapters18-19p.432-446Listening: TBD

April22:Noreadingassignmenttoday.JohnCoolidgeAdams(b.1947)Thereigning“deanofAmericancomposers”Earlyminimalistworks:PhrygianGates(his“opus1”),ShakerLoopsMinimalismwithmaximalforces:Harmonium;Adams’bigbreakasacomposerTheintenselypoliticalcomposer:NixoninChina,TheDeathofKlinghoffer.AnostalgicbackwardslookatArnoldSchoenberginChamberSymphonyandHarmonielehre.Jazzy?Minimalist?MovingbeyondformallabelsinhisViolinConcerto(1993).

Readingassignment:Musicsince1945:EightRepresentativePiecesp.446-460Listening: TBD

April25:Noreadingassignmenttoday.BlackAngels(comp.GeorgeCrumb)andDifferentTrains(comp.SteveReich):Twodivergentpathsforthecontemporarystringquartet.Listening: GeorgeCrumb:BlackAngels SteveReich:DifferentTrains

April27:Noreadingassignmenttoday. TheCuttingEdge:ContemporaryClassicalMusicWritteninthe21stCenturyThomasAdés:Tevot,ViolinConcerto,TheTempestJohnCoolidgeAdams:Scheherazade.2forviolinandorchestra,OntheTransmigrationofSouls,Dr.AtomicChoralWorksbyEricWhitacre:WhenDavidHeardandSleep

StudyhandoutforFinalExam,includinglisteningexamples(IwillbespeciBic!) April29:FinalExamReview

May2:ListeningTest(worth20%oftheFinalExamgrade)

May11at8:00am:FinalExam

NB: This syllabus approximates the course’s content and schedule. The instructor reserves the right to make reasonable changes and alterations of the schedule and content of this syllabus and to announce those changes in class. Students are responsible for fulfilling any new or revised requirements or obligations.