Western Music and Culture II

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)

No

Syllabus

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.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Isabel Nistal Freijo

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.