Baroque and Classical Music History

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This course covers the transition from the late Baroque to the Classical era, and examines the various developments that recontextualize 18th century aesthetics in the 19th century's Romantic idiom. Musical practices in the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning with Beethoven's monumental and universal works and their influence on later generations; the increase in chromaticism through the romantic era, the breakdown of tonality, and the harmonic-contrapuntal techniques and structural principles of 20th-century music; Western music from Beethoven to Adams. Prerequisite(s): MUSI 1111 or permission of instructor.