Week

  Unit

Reading 

Listening (MP3)

Powerpoint Slides

I

Baroque I

Kamien: pp. 89-144

JS Bach: "Brandenburg Concerto #2, mvmt.1
L. Bernstein's Overture to Candide

Bach and the Baroque

II

Baroque II

Kamien: pp. 89-144

GF Handel: "Hallelujah Chorus" from The Messiah

George Frederic Handel

III

Classical I

Kamien pp. 145-202

WA Mozart: "Symphony #40, Movement 1"

Mozart and the Symphony

Mozart-Symphony #40

IV

Classical II

Kamien: pp. 145-202

Mozart: "Love Scene" from Don Giovanni

V

Romantic I

Kamien: pp. 203-278

Schubert - The Erlkonig
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

VI

Romantic II

Kamien: pp. 203-278

Hector Berlioz: March to the Scaffold"
from Symphonie Fantastique
 Wagner: Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Hut on Hen's Legs from
Mussourgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

Richard Wagner
Wagner-Tristan und Isolde

VII

MIDTERM

VIII

Japan

  Shotwell: pp. 509-514

Japanese Court Music: Gagaku 

Japanese Court Music
Japanese Music

IX

China

  Shotwell pp. 503-508

Chinese Music and Beijing Opera
High Mountain and Flowing Stream
Tan Dun: Symphony of Heaven, Earth and Mankind

Gugin and the Confucian Scholar
Chinese Music
Contemporary China: Tan Dun

X

Impressionism

Kamien; pp. 296-301

Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Claire de Lune

Debussy and Impressionism

XI

Expressionism

Kamien pp. 302-326

A Schoenberg: Monstrucken from Pierrot Lunaire "

Expressionism

XII

Africa

 Shotwell: Chapter on African Music

Yoruba Pressure Drums

                         Africa

XIII

Modernism I

Kamien pp. 285-295, 

I. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring

Primitivism

XIV

Modernism II

Kamien: pp. 326-359

John Cage's  Perilous Night

John Cage & Philip Glass

XV

Modernism III

Kamien: pp. 326-359

Metallica and The San Francisco Orchestra 

TBA