MUSC 5325
Fall 2008
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 26: Keyboard Instruments,
genres, and overview.
Reading: Silbiger: 1-21
(Introduction)
August 28, September
2, 4, 9: 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
For September 9: Professor Farr will give a guest
lecture on the unmeasured prelude. Please see the Colin Tilney
compilation "The Art of the Unmeasured Prelude" on reserve in the
library.
September 11, 16, 18: D’Anglebert,
Froberger , Louis Couperin,
François Couperin.
Silbiger: 118-146, 183-190, Marshall 1-17, 124-153.
September 23: Kuhnau: Biblical Sonatas.
Anne Choi. Begin Bach as well.
September 25, 30, October 2: 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.
September
30: Emily Takahashi (Suites), Noah Barkan (Keyboard Concertos).
Marshall:
68-123
October
7:
Scarlatti. Marshall:
154-190 Maja Svast. Rameau (Marshall 124-173). Lisa Harrington.
October 9, 14: C. P. E. Bach, J. C. Bach.
Oct. 9: Janet Pettit; Oct. 14: Kirsten Farnsworth (JC Bach Concertos)
Marshall: 191-229; 257-269
Midterm to be given out on October 16, due October 23.
Part 2: Later 18th- and Early 19th-Century Piano Music
October
16, 21:
Haydn 1, 2
October
23:
Mozart 1
October 28: Mozart 2; Mozart
Variations (Alyssa Koay)
October 30:
Mozart 3, 4 (Concertos, late chamber works with piano)
November
4: Late
Haydn (Margie Patterson) plus leftovers.
November 6: The London School: Clementi (Lisa
Harrington), Hummel,
Dussek, Field.
November 11: Beethoven I (Marshall:
394-424); Anne Choi: Beethoven's pianos
November 13: Beethoven II (Rosenblum
144-189)
November 18: Beethoven III (Rosen
396-404)
November 20: Beethoven IV (Todd 55-96)
December 2: Beethoven V (Rosen 404-434)
December 4: Beethoven VI (Rosen 435-448)
December 9: Schubert I (Todd 97-145).
Papers due. Matt Witherow: Fantasies
December 11: Schubert II. Maja Svast:
Schubert: Influences from Mozart and Beethoven
Final Exam.