Music 371f - Topics inMusic:Nineteenth-Century ChamberMusic

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Mount Holyoke College

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(Writing-intensive course) This seminar is designed to increase familiarity with and facility in the use of primary materials for musicological and/or theoretical research, as well as in the critical evaluation of published scholarship. Engagement with a shared topic at the outset of the semester provides the context from which each student fashions an independent project. Oral presentations are integral to the course, with a major paper as the final requirement. Chamber music underwent dramatic transformation during the course of the nineteenth century. The seminar examines change in social function and performance venue, status of performers, significance within a composer's output, and the ascendancy of chamber combinations other than the string quartet. Analysis of works by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, and others reveals shi?s in style andpreference. Meets Humanities I-A requirement L. Litterick Prereq. Music 282 and 232 or permission of instructor; 4 credits

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mtholyoke.edu

Phone Number:

(413) 538-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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