Chamber Music of Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms

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The piano music, songs, and small-ensemble music of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms are suffused with a poetic, literary element that transcends genre. In this course, we will immerse ourselves in the intimate expressive world of the Hausmusik of these three closely-related composers, drawing connections across the boundary between vocal and instrumental music. Fusing scholarship with active music-making whenever possible, we will focus on selected repertoire through musicological study, analysis, discussion, and performance. Along the way, we will tackle a variety of issues, including cultural and political context, historical and contemporary performance practice, and the relevance of the composers? biographies