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Patricia Holland - Department of Music

Patricia Holland, Professor of Bassoon and Music Literature
Department of Music

Studio: NFAC 308
Office Phone: 715-346-3119
Fax: 715-346-3163
E-mail: pholland@uwsp.edu

Music 320/520 - 19th Century Music

Course Outline (Timeline approximate; additional reserve readings may be assigned.)


​Week ​Topic ​Reading in Plantinga
​1 ​Review Classicism; Introduction to Romanticism; Early Beethoven case studies:
Pathétique Sonata and Symphony No. 5
Ch 1 (skim)
Ch 2
2​ Late Beethoven case study: Symphony No. 9
Contemporaries of Beethoven               
Schubert Lieder, Song Cycles
Ch 3
pp. 79-82, 91-103
Ch 5
​3 ​Schubert's Piano, Chamber and Orchestral Music ​pp. 103-106, 82-91
​4 Mendelssohn Piano and Orchestral works, Oratorios
Fanny Hensel
​pp. 247-254
​5 Robert Schumann Background, Piano Works
Lieder, Orchestral Works
Clara Wieck Schumann
​pp. 220-246

​6 ​Opera review; 19th Century Italian opera
Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti
​pp. 127-143

​7 ​Verdi to La Traviata
French opera; Gounod, Meyerbeer
​pp. 166-173
​8 Chopin
Berlioz
​pp. 190-203
pp. 203-219
​9 ​Liszt
​pp. 173-189
​10 ​Wagner
​Ch 9
​11 Nationalism
Russians: Glinka and the Mighty Handful
​pp. 341-343; 362-383
​12 ​Russians: Glinka and the Mighty Handful
​13 ​Russians: Tchaikovsky
Bohemian Nationalism: Smetana and Dvorak
​pp. 384-389

​14 Scandinavian Nationalism
Brahms
​pp. 389-397
pp. 411-440
​15 ​Brahms, Opera after 1850
​Ch 10