CSU-Hayward, Music 6125, Music of the Classical Period
Reading Assignments Page

Texts:

Enrico Fubini. Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe.

Charles Rosen. The Classical Style.

Attendance:

Roll will be taken at each class meeting. Some class periods may be canceled in lieu of personal appointments with the instructor.

Students may be dropped for three consecutive, unexcused absences or for four unexcused absences over the course of the semester. If you must drop this class for any reason, please notify the instructor.

To be excused from class, call the instructor at 510-336-0336(Night) or 510-885-3135 (CSUH Music Department Office - Day).

WEEK 1 Brief Introduction

WEEK 2 Origins of the Classical Style (1.1) Fubini Intro. and Chapters 3-4, 6-8

Period Instruments (2.1 &endash; 2.6) Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments

WEEK 3 Mozart's Chamber Music (8.1) Rosen pp. 111-142, 264-287, 351-365

WEEK 4 Dance (3.1 &endash; 3.3, 4.2)

Performance Practice (2.1 &endash;2.6)

Written Assignment #1 Due: 15%

WEEK 5 Classicism & Opera Seria (5.1 &endash; 5.4) Fubini Chapters 1-2, 9-10

WEEK 6 Pre-Classicisms (4.1, 6.1 &endash;6.3) Fubini Chapter 5

Comic Opera and Choral Music Rosen pp. 288-329, 366-378

America (9.1-9.6) Gilbert Chase, America's Music

WEEK 7 Vienna (7.1 &endash; 7.2)

Written Assignment #2 Due: 15%

WEEK 8 Greater Europe (8.2)

WEEK 9 Analysis & Theory (10.1 &endash; 10.3)

WEEK 11 Research Paper Due: 30%