Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music
A proseminar devoted to orchestral music of the nineteenth-century (either
the "short" or "long" century), with emphasis on major works by composers
ranging from Haydn to Mahler, Repertoire may be drawn from, but not
exclusively limited to, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel,
Robert Schumann, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Dvorak, Bruckner, Amy
Beach, and other composers, with analytical readings of representative works.
Students will be asked to write a research paper on some aspect of
nineteenth-century orchestral music (i.e., treating in some way analysis from
a historical/theoretical standpoint, orchestration, the question of genre
and/or aesthetics, and the like), and to present their findings before the class. |
