MUSIC-UA 102 - Baroque and Classical Music

Institution:

New York University

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Description:

Topics include the works of Monteverdi, Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; the ascendancy of the secular over the sacred resumed and maintained; a new harmonic basis for musical structure: the basso continuo; the theatricalization of music in opera, oratorio, and the cantata; the expansion of the span of time music can sustain and, in the instrumental forms of sonata and concerto, a new musical independence from nonmusical ideas; the concert as music's own occasion; musical autonomy in the symphonies and quartets of the Viennese classicists.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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