| Module Code: MUS2034 |
Module Title: CLASSICAL STUDIES |
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Module Provider: Music and Sound Recording
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Short Name: MUS2034
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Level: HE2
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Module Co-ordinator: MARK CM Dr (Music Record)
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Number of credits: 15
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Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
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| Module Availability |
Semester 1 |
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| Assessment Pattern |
Coursework: one essay of not more than 3000 words - 50%
Two-hour examination - 50%
You will need to achieve a weighted aggregate mark of 40% |
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| Module Overview |
| The purpose of this module is to enable you to build on your existing knowledge of the music of the late eighteenth century. Received views are challenged and perspectives offered by recent research explored. |
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
| None |
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| Module Aims |
• To develop an understanding of the context – historical, cultural and social – within which the major classical instrumental genres evolved.
• To develop analytical skills in relation to these genre.
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| Learning Outcomes |
By the end of the module you should be able to:
• Describe the origins of, and cross-fertilizations between, the major instrumental genres of the Classical period.
• Discuss the cultural, social, and historical factors impacting on musical composition in the late 18th century.
• Identify and classify the principal stylistic and formal features of works representative of the major Classical instrumental genres.
Transferable skills:
• Critical thinking.
• Cogent written argumentation.
• Deconstruction of problems.
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| Module Content |
The following is an indication of the topics likely to be covered:
• Context: Eighteenth-Century Culture and Aesthetics.
• The Classical Style 1750-80.
• Domestic Music I: The Piano Sonata.
• Domestic Music II: The String Quartet (Haydn).
• Domestic Music III: The String Quartet (Mozart).
• Public Music I: The Symphony (Haydn).
• Public Music II: The Symphony (Mozart).
• Public Music II: The Piano Concerto (Mozart).
• Romanticism? I: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and String Quartets.
• Romanticism? II: Beethoven's Symphonies and Piano Concertos.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
Lectures.
Group discussion.
Responding to questions in class.
Directed reading and listening.
Analytical and written assignments.
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| Selected Texts/Journals |
Compulsory Reading:
Ratner, Leonard G., 1980: Classic Music: Expression, Form and Style (New York: Schirmer)
Rosen, Charles, 2005: The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, rev. 3rd edition (London, Faber).
Taruskin, Richard, 2010: The Oxford History of Music Volume 2: Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: Oxford University Press), Chs 8–13.
Recommended Reading:
Cook, Nicholas, 1996: Analysis Through Composition: Principles of the Classical Style (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Downes, Philip G., 1992: Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (W.W. Norton and Company).
Irving, John, 2003: Mozart’s Piano Concertos (Aldershot: Ashgate).
Lowe, Melanie, 2008: Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
Schroeder, David P., 1990: Haydn and the Enlightenment: The Late Symphonies and their Audience (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
Sipe, Thomas, 1998: Beethoven: ‘Eroica’ Symphony (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Zaslaw, Neal, 1989: Mozart’s Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception (Oxford, Clarendon).
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| Last Updated |
| 11.04.11 |
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