MUL2010 BC Classical-period Symphonies Essay
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Your second listening journal assignment is to write a three-to-five-page paper on a musical work of your choice. Please write about a piece that corresponds to the musical periods studied since our Midterm Exam (the Classical and Romantic periods). I have provided a list of suggestions in this handout, but you are free to select a musical work that is not listed. Your paper should provide a musical analysis of your chosen piece using the established parameters designated in our course textbook and implemented in our class discussions. You have considerable flexibility regarding how you chose to approach your topic, but please provide an analysis that interrogates the elements of music and the five questions that provide the organizational foundation of our class discussions:
What is it?
How does it work?
What does it mean?
What is its history?
Where do we go from here?
Your paper should be written in standard academic English language style (double spaced/ 11 font). Please use appropriate citations if your chose to consult source materials (APA, MLA, or Chicago style sheets), and keep in mind that all papers will be electronically checked for plagiarism.
Here is the list of suggested works to study based on our recent investigations of the Classical and Romantic periods in music:
Classical-period Chamber Music: any string quartet by Franz Joseph Haydn or Ludwig van Beethoven (I recommend a look at the !te3tring quartets of Beethoven)
Classical-period Symphonies: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 (or simply the Jupiter Symphony) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical-period Opera: The Magic Flute (K. 620) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical-period Piano Music: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (known as the Appassionata sonata) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven Symphonies: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (known as the Pastoral Symphony) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Programmatic Orchestral Works: A Faust Symphony in Three Character Pictures, S.108 (known as the Faust Symphony) by Franz Liszt
Romantic Piano Music: Carnaval, Op. 9, for piano solo by Robert Schumann
Nineteenth-century Opera: The Flying Dutchman (WWV 63) or The Valkyrie (WWV 86B) by Richard Wagner
European Musical Nationalism: Finlandia (Op. 26) by Jean Sibelius or Peer Gynt (Op.23) by Edvard Grieg
Classical Music at CenturyàEnd: La mer (L. 109, CD. 111) by Claude Debussy or Rhapsodie espagnole by Maurice Ravel
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