MUH 104 - Classic-Era Music: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

3 CR

A study of classic-era music focusing on the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The discussion will be contextual, the topics multidisciplinary, and will include the influence of poetics and rhetoric; the new attention to emotion and sensibility; the changing social role of the musician; Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven as Romantic and revolutionary artists.