This unit examines the development of Western art music from the rise of the Classical style during the second quarter of the eighteenth century and its subsequent flowering in the music of the Viennese classical composers (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert) and continues with a study of early nineteenth-century Romanticism (Weber, Schumann, Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt) and the various later and post-Romantic styles (Wagner, Brahms, Musorgsky, Mahler, Richard Strauss) preceding the rise of twentieth-century Modernism. The unit aims to provide sound historical, technical and cultural perspectives of the repertoire and of the period studied.<br/><br/>This unit is a compulsory unit in the... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor David Symons
Prerequisites: MUSC1310 Communication Skills in Music or MUSC1350 Popular Music in Global Perspective or MUSC2331 Western Art Music 1 (Renaissance and Baroque)