Music

• CFA MU 640: Music of Ludwig van Beethoven
  His work in relation to his life and times; contributions to the expansion of classic symphonic and sonata principles and developmental techniques. Emphasis on his symphonies, chamber music, sonatas, and concertos; Beethoven's influence on later nineteenth-century composers. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 641: Music of Franz Peter Schubert
  His life and times. Early training and influences. The songs, the chamber music, the symphonies, the stage works. Religious music and piano music. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 642: Music of Johannes Brahms
  The Classical Romantic. Brahms and Beethoven; the symphonies and his technique of germinal motivic construction. Brahms and Schumann; the chamber music, the songs, and the requiem. Brahms and Wagner; the composer as musicologist. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 645: Music of Igor Stravinsky
  Training with Rimsky-Korsakov and early works for the Diaghilev Ballet. Neoclassic period: from the octet to the violin concerto; his writings about music; American period: from Dumbarton Oaks to The Rake's Progress. His compositions in the serial techniques. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 647: History and Literature of Art Song
  The German Lied, the French art song, and other European art songs in the nineteenth and twentieth ceturies. Emphasis on Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Mussorgsky, Faure, and Debussey. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 648: History and Literature of Large Choral Forms
  Development of larger choral forms from the Renaissance period to the present: oratorios, cantatas, masses, and combined media-sacred and secular.
• CFA MU 705: Advanced Topics in Counterpoint
  Prereq: CFA MU 605. Analysis and writing of genres and style of contrapuntal practice, including but not limited to fuges from theAdvanced writing and analytical problems of fugues and related genres from the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. 2 cr.

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