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Overview of Western Music History

Course
2016-2017

Description

It took composer Johannes Brahms many years to complete his first symphony. Every time when Brahms was composing music, he felt the weight of the ‘big giant’ behind him. With this big giant Brahms meant the composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his Ninth Symphony. This Ninth Symphony has been of great importance to several nineteenh-century composers. Beethoven himself was influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach, while the compositions of Brahms formed a source of inspiration for Arnold Schönberg.
These lectures will give an overview of western music. The influence of composers Bach, Haydn, Mozart en Beethoven on the development of music history will be closely examined. The teacher will furthermore deal with the development of chamber music, opera and the symphony. A variety of musical styles which have come to blossom in the twentieth century will be discussed, as well as some of the history of jazz and film music.

Schedule

2016-2017, First semester.

The courses take place at the Lipsius building (Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden), room 147, Tuesday evenings from 20.30-22.00 hrs.

The first meeting will be on Tuesday 13 September 2016.
The last meeting will be on Tuesday 13 December 2016.

PLEASE NOTE: There will not be a meeting on Tuesday 25 October 2016.

Mode of Instruction

Lecture

Assesment Method

Written paper

Literature

Donald J. Grout & Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music (Edition of choice)

Registration

Register for this course via uSis.

Contact

Rogier Schneemann
Kolja Meeuwsen

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