MUSC 101B Western Music History (1750-1910)

Surveys major developments in European (and some U.S.-American) composition, performance practice, style and aesthetics, and music business (patronage, institutions, publishing, etc.) between approximately 1750 and 1910. Second quarter of a three-quarter chronological study of Western music. Coordinated lectures, readings, listening, and analysis of representative works: Baroque, Classical, Romantic. (Formerly History of Western Art Music.)