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This course gives a broad overview of Western music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, with emphasis on late baroque, classical, romantic, and modernist styles (1700-1910). It is also meant to enhance students' musical experience by developing listening skills and an understanding of diverse forms and genres. Major composers and thei
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- music and theater arts
- western music
- baroque music
- classical music
- romantic music
- bach
- modernist music
- listening skills
- social context of music
- cultural context of music
- major composers
- haydn
- mozart
- concerto
- opera
- beethoven
- vivaldi
- handel
- schubert
- chopin
- jazz
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This course is a survey of significant orchestral masterworks composed during three centuries. Listening assignments include 34 symphonies and 24 concertos, composed from the 1720s to the 1990s. Class discussion and oral presentations focus on the works in 18 miniature scores; prior score-reading experience is helpful. Each of the three wri
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- music and theater arts
- classical music
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- orchestra
- chamber music
- piano
- violin
- baroque
- romantic
- musical form
- musical analysis
- mozart
- beethoven
- schubert
- brahms
- tchaikovsky
- stravinsky
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This course builds on the composition techniques practiced in 21M.303 Writing in Tonal Forms I. Students undertake further written and analytic exercises in tonal music, including a sonata-form movement for string quartet. Students will also have the opportunity to write short works that experiment with the expanded tonal techniques of the
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- music and theater arts
- composition
- composing
- listening
- form
- structure
- harmony
- melody
- rhythm
- motif
- theme
- voicing
- chord
- scale
- cadence
- tonality
- tonal music
- atonal music
- phrasing
- canon
- classical music
- chamber music
- aesthetics
- musical analysis
- string quartet
- prokofiev
- sonata form
- haydn
- mozart
- beethoven
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