Piano Literature
MUSC 4325
Fall 2007
Professor
Korevaar -- C196. Phone: 303-492-6256.
Email: korevaar@colorado.edu
Tuesday/Thursday,
12:00-12:50, Room C125.
Course
Description:
A two-semester
survey (with MUSC 4335, Spring
2006) of music written for piano (and its stringed predecessors). This first semester will briefly cover
the period from 1600 to 1700, then deal in more depth with music from
J. S.
Bach to Schubert (roughly 1700 to 1828).
Course Goal:
Students are
expected to
increase their knowledge of a broad range of music written for keyboard
instruments. In addition, students should gain insights into basic
issues of
performance style, performance practice, development of the
instruments, and
development of important genres throughout the modern history of
keyboard
music.
Text
(students should own this book):
F. E. Kirby. Music
For Piano: A short history. Portland,
Oregon: Amadeus
Press, 1995.
Recommended but
not required:
Maurice
Hinson. Guide to the Pianist¹s Repertoire. Third Edition.
Bloomington,
Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Supplementary
texts (these will be on reserve
for occasional extra reading assignments):
Keyboard Literature:
Alexander Silbiger, editor. Keyboard
Music Before 1700. 2nd
Edition:
Routledge,
2004 (ML549 .K49
2004).
Robert Marshall, editor. Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music. 2nd
Edition: Routledge, 2003 (ML705 .E37 2003).
R. Larry Todd, editor. Nineteenth-Century
Piano Music.
2nd Edition: Routledge,
2004 (ML706 .N56
2004).
Performance
Practice:
Harold Mayer Brown and Stanley
Sadie, editors. Performance
Practice: Music after 1600.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1989. (ML457 .P467 1990 v.2)
Sandra P. Rosenblum. Performance
Practices in Classic Music.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1988. (ML705 .R67 1988)
Other
Readings:
Charles Rosen. The
Classical Style:
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1982 (or 1997 if available). (ML195 .R68)
Stanley Sadie, editor. The
New Grove
Early Keyboard Instruments.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1989. (ML549 .N49 1989)
Assignments:
Reading and
listening will be assigned for each
class meeting. In addition, short
written assignments will be given three or four times in the semester.
Exams:
I will give a
midterm and final written exam.
The midterm will be a take home exam. The final will most likely be
given in
the classroom on the assigned final exam day.
Paper:
Each student is
required to write a paper (at
least ten typed [12 point], double-spaced pages) on a topic related to
the
subject matter of the course. This
paper may deal with analysis, performance practice, pedagogy, history,
or other
issues related to a specific work or group of works.
Please consult Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of
Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, sixth edition
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), for
information on format. I require
that you include full citations in footnotes for all sources that you
use. Please do not use scientific-style
parenthetical references! You must have my approval for your topic by
October
20, and turn in a preliminary bibliography by October 27.
Papers are due on Friday, December
2. Please do not ask for
extensions.
Attendance:
Given the amount
of material to be presented
quickly, as well as the participatory nature of the class, consistent
attendance is necessary. I will
allow each student two unexcused absences, after which your grade may
be
lowered one degree (e. g., ³A² to ³A-minus²) for
each subsequent absence, excused
or unexcused.
Students in good standing (one or zero
unexcused absences and up-to-date on all assignments) may be allowed
excused
absences on a case-by-case basis at my discretion.
Grading:
Midterm exam: 25%
Final exam: 25%
Paper: 25%
Class
Participation (including short written
assignments): 25%
Honor
Code:
The College of Music, along with the rest of the University of
Colorado,
has instituted an honor code. We
will discuss what constitutes original work, what constitutes
plagiarism, and
what measures you need to take in your written work to properly credit
sources. More information on the honor
code may
be found at http://www.colorado.edu/academics/honorcode/.
If
you qualify
for accommodations because of a disability, please submit to me
a
letter from
Disability Services (DS) early in the semester so that your needs
may
be
addressed. DS determines
accommodations based on documented
disabilities
(303-492-8671, Willard 322).