Assignment: Grout and Palisca, Chapter 17
            Read: 592-595 (top)
            Skim: 595 (top)-597 (bottom)
            Read: 597 (bottom)-606 (top)
            Skim: 606 (top)-615
            Read: 615-621 (top)
            Skim: 621-624

Study Questions:

1. What were the two main schools of piano playing at the beginning of the 19th
      century?--p. 592 What new schools emerged during the century?--p. 592-593
      Which composers avoided the extremes of style represented by these new
      schools?--p. 593

2. Be able to characterize Robert Schumann’s pianistic style. Who were Florestan,
      Eusebius, and Raro?--p. 598

3. How did Polish nationalism influence Chopin’s style?--p. 599

4. Be able to characterize Chopin’s pianistic style--p. 599-602 What is an
      étude?--p.601-602

5. What factors entered into the formation of Liszt’s pianistic style??p. 602-603

6. What varieties of piano music did Liszt write?--p. 603-605 How did his style
      change in his late works?--p. 605

7. Be able to describe the variety in Schubert’s melodies and harmonic
      language--p. 615-616

8. What forms does Schubert use in his songs?--p. 616

9. What function does the piano have in Schubert’s songs?--p. 616

10. How does Robert Schumann’s song style differ from that of Schubert?--p. 617

11. What role did folk style play in the songs of Brahms?--p. 618-619 How does
      his style compare with those of Schubert and the Schumanns?--p. 619*

12. What are the three major categories of choral music in the 19th century?--p.
      620—621