MUS 284 - Piano Literature

Class Schedule

[Note: Class presentations will continually connect historical styles with twentieth-century styles.]

1) Considering recorded performances - Bach Prelude and Fugue in d minor, WTC I

2) Well-Tempered Tunings and Microtonal Tunings

• Charles Ives, Ivan Wychnedgradsky, Ben Johnston
• Bach Partita in c minor, Allemande
• Turn in one listening journal entry

3) Domenico Scarlatti: Strange Shapes, and Virtuoso Technique

• Liszt, John Cage, George Crumb
• Turn in first reflection

4) Interlude One: Sons of a Bach

• Turn in book titles for pedagogy project

5) The Classical-Era Giants: Tunefulness, Structure, and Expression

• Haydn: Two nearly identical movements. Monothematica (C Major Sonata, VU 60)
• Mozart
• Beethoven: Motivic unity (Op. 10/3, Op. 28) and new forms. Op. 111
• Schubert: the sonata as song (E finale, B )
• Turn in Listening Journal for midterm report

6) Individualism: Wind Blowing Through The Hair

• Chopin: Mazurkas, Waltzes, Nocturnes, Etudes
• Chopin and Form: g Minor Ballade; Polonaise-Fantasie
• Schumann: Carnival and Kreisleriana
• Liszt: Travels (Sposalizio) and thematic transformations (Vallee d'Obermann, Sonata)
• Brahms

7) Interlude Two: Impressions of Debussy

8) Twentieth Century Individualism

• Schoenberg
• Bartok
• Stockhausen
• Cage
• Our friends around the cornor