MUSC 226 - Music History I: Music and the European City, 1685-1803

2023-2024 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

An examination of the relationship between music, sound more broadly, and the courts, churches, and concert halls of eighteenth-century European cities. Students learn to analyze and interpret repertoire in the classical music canon, at the same time that they gain an understanding of the personal, cultural, and political forces that shaped (and continue to shape) that canon. Students also learn to analyze and interpret the sounds of eighteenth-century European cities, gaining critical listening skills that they learn to apply their study of the sounds beyond the eighteenth-century European city.

Prerequisite(s): MUSC 110, or corequisite of MUSC 189 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every Fall Semester