MUSC 5325
Fall 2010
Course
Outline (subject to change):
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Seminar in Piano
Literature, MUSC 5325
Schedule of Topics (Subject to Change):
Part 1: 17th- and Early 18th-Century Keyboard Music
August 24: Keyboard Instruments,
genres, and overview.
Reading: Silbiger: 1-21
(Introduction)
August 26, August
31, September 2: English Virginalists: Byrd, Bull,
Gibbons, etc.; Frescobaldi.
Readings: Silbiger: 23-62;
240-245 (Italian stringed keyboard instruments), 281-292 (Frescobaldi).
Brown and Sadie: 29-43
September 7, 9, 14: D’Anglebert,
Froberger , Louis Couperin,
François Couperin, Rameau.
Silbiger: 118-146, 183-190, Marshall 1-17, 124-153. Please see the
Colin Tilney
compilation "The Art of the Unmeasured Prelude" on reserve in the
library.
September 16, 21, 23, 28, : A little
Kuhnau, a lot
of J. S. Bach. Please bring
your own or library
scores of the works we will discuss to each class from here on out as
much as possible.
Marshall:
68-123
September 28: Will include presentation on fixed forms ("17th and 18th
Century Fakebook") by Amanda Riggers
September 30: Special presentation on Stockhausen by Frank Gutschmidt,
with demonstrations. All piano majors encouraged to attend!
October
5:
Scarlatti. Marshall:
154-190. Also will include presentation by Adam Jackson on Spanish
keyboard instruments.
October 7, 12: C. P. E. Bach, J. C. Bach.
October 7: Presentation by Tigranuhi Arakelyan on Handel
Marshall: 191-229; 257-269
Midterm to be given out on October 14, due October 21.
Part 2: Later 18th- and Early 19th-Century Piano Music
October
14, 19:
Haydn 1, 2
October
21:
Mozart 1
October 26: Mozart 2
October 28:
Mozart 3, 4 (Concertos, late chamber works with piano)
Also: Presentation on Late Haydn Sonatas by Brad Marcotte
November
2: Late
Haydn plus leftovers (guest TBD). Presentations by Tigranuhi Arakelyan
on Haydn Trios and by Megan Koegel on keyboard pedagogy of the period.
November 4: The London School: Clementi,
Hummel,
Dussek, Field. Presentation by Peter Ryan on Hummel.
November 9: Beethoven I (Marshall:
394-424); November 9:
Beethoven II (Rosenblum
144-189)
(This is being compressed to accommodate the special guest appearance
on November 16 - I will spread things a bit more equitably than it
looks from this plan.)
November 11: Beethoven III (Rosen
396-404)
November 16: Special guest appearance, 12-2, by Ann Schein. Lecture to
deal with Schumann and Chopin.
November 18: Beethoven IV (Todd 55-96)
November 30: Beethoven V (Rosen 404-434)
December 2: Beethoven VI (Rosen 435-448)
Presentation by Liz Nelson on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.
December 7: Schubert I (Todd 97-145).
Papers due.
December 9: Schubert II.
Final Exam.