Western Music and Culture II
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2024-2025
01012852
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
E-learning
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
- Theoretical presentation by the teacher
- Analysis of musical and bibliographical examples
- Debate in the classroom.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the semester, the students should be competent to: understand the historical evolution of western music between the 18th and 20th centuries; tell apart the individual styles of the most important composers within the time-span of the period on which the syllabus is focused; recognize visually and aurally the main instruments used in classical and Romantic music; understand the aesthetic concepts that underlie classical and Romantic music; follow some of the movements in 20th century music.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
The course aims to offer the student a panorama of Western Music, from the mid 18th century to the 20th. Subjects addressed will be: instrumental and vocal music in 18th c. Vienna (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven); Schubert and Lieder; instrumental forms in the romantic period (Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt); romantic opera in Italy and Germany; nationalism in music; impressionism; 2nd Viennese School; Stravinsky. A connection will be drawn between these musical subjects and contemporary events in painting, architecture and ballet.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
CARDOSO, José Maria Pedrosa, História Breve da Música Ocidental, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade, 2010.
GRIFFITHS, Paul, História Concisa da Música Ocidental, Lisboa, Bizâncio, 2007.
GROUT, Donald J, & PALISCA, Claude V., História da Música Ocidental, Lisboa, Gradiva, 1994. [revisão técnica de Adriana Latino].
TARUSKIN, Richard, The Oxford History of Western Music. Vol. I: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2005.
TARUSKIN, Richard, The Oxford History of Western Music. Vol. II: Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Oxford, 2005.