• Course syllabus
• How We Listen
• Sound Reasoning: A New Way to Listen
• Brandt: HOW MUSIC MAKES SENSE
• Brandt: MUSICAL EMPHASIS

• Brandt: MUSICAL FORM
• Brandt: OVERALL DESTINY
• Brandt: TIME'S EFFECT ON THE MATERIAL

NOTE: It is important that you actually listen to the musical examples provided online.

• Sonata form: the basics

9/18, 9/20 - Enlightenment thought; how "reason" pervades the Classical Style

• Condorcet: Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
• Locke: Of Civil Government (excerpt)
• Hobbes: Leviathan (excerpt) part 2
• AUTEXIER: Chapter 1 ("Promise")

UNIT 1: Romantic Utopianism - Beethoven's 9th Symphony

9/25, 9/27 - The French Revolution; Beethoven and Napoleon; the Promethean Myth; Beethoven's "Heiligenstadt Testament"

10/2, 10/4 - The Ninth Symphony, movement by movement

• Berlioz: On Beethoven's Choral Symphony
• (Listen to 2nd and 3rd movements of the 9th)
• The Ninth, cont. [2nd and 3rd movements

10/9, 10/11 - FILM: Immortal Beloved (2 full hours: meet in AC 215)

• Who Was the "Immortal Beloved?"
• Buch: Beethoven as Führer
• The Ninth as Anthem: Politics/Religion/Race [4th mvt., "Ode to Joy"]

10/16 - Ninth, cont.

10/18 - UNIT 1 TEST: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Topic Proposal with Annotated Bibliography due by Fall Break

10/23 - Intro to Romanticism (PowerPoint)

10/25 - The Shadow of Beethoven: How the symphony became Romantic; Berlioz's idée fixe -- hearing it each time it appears in the Symphonie Fantastique; hearing emotional content

• FIERO: p. 50 (Introductory paragraph, "The Romantic Style in Art and Music")
• Rousseau: A Man of Very Strong Passions
• Chateaubriand: The Sickness of the Century
• Berlioz: Spleen
• Alfred de Musset: A Lost Generation

10/30, 11/1 - primary sources, cont.

• Keats: Ode on Melancholy (poem)

11/6 - The third movement, in detail

• FIERO: pp. 3-8 in The Romantic View of Nature (Ch. 27)

11/8 - The fourth and fifth movements

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: La Bohème in Thalia Mara Hall - Sat. 7:30 $$

11/13 - Romantic lied [Schubert, Schumann]

• FIERO: pp. 47-48 "Romantic Love and Romantic Stereotypes"
• Schubert: The Erlking
• Schumann: Familien-Gemalde
• Schumann: In der Nacht ("In the Night")

11/15 - UNIT 2 TEST: Symphonie Fantastique and German Lieder (song)

11/20 - Introduction to opera; Carmen, Act 1 [FIRST DRAFT of paper due Wed., Nov. 20th]

Thanksgiving Break

11/27 - Carmen, Act I, cont. [first draft of paper returned, with comments]

• Libretto to Act 1 (link to complete libretto, with translation)

11/29 - Carmen, Act II-IV

12/4 - Carmen, cont. RESEARCH PAPER: Final draft due 12/4 @ 2:45

Viewing of Carmen: Tuesday night, Dec 4 [7:00-9:00 pm]

12/6 - Carmen, cont.

FINAL: Saturday , Dec. 15th at 6:00 pm ACCORDING TO THE EXAM SCHEDULE

UNIT 3 TEST (Carmen) [6:00-6:50 pm] / Essay Final Exam [7:00-8:00 pm]