19th-Century Music

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Class Hours: 3 Lab/Discussion: 0 Credits: 3 Prerequisite: MUHI 301 , MUHI 302 Description: Examines the musical and historical aspects of some representative works in four significant repertoires of 19th-century music: songs, characteristic works for piano, opera, and symphonies. Further examines how the works intersect with a number of social, cultural, aesthetic, political, and economic themes that pervade the century, such as the rise of the middle class, city cultures, the domestic music market, the invention of “the folk,” nationalism and exoticism, social and political revolutions, idealism and its successors, and the virtuoso.