Textbook
Honour, Hugh. Romanticism . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780064300896.
It is also suggested that you read or at least skim the appropriate entries for the given composers in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
| LEC # | TOPICS/COMPOSERS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | An Introduction to the Romantic Genres | |
| Part 1: Intimacy and the (Self-) Portrait: Piano Music and Songs | ||
| 2 | Songs and Piano Music of Schubert and Mendelssohn | Honour. Introduction, Chapter 1. |
| 3 | Songs and Piano Music of Schumann | Honour. Chapter 7. |
| 4 | Piano Music of Chopin and Liszt | |
| 5 | Brahms, Wolf and Strauss | |
| 6 | Faure and Debussy | |
| Part 2: Romantic Chamber Music | ||
| 7 | Schubert String Quintet | |
| 8 | Brahms | |
| 9 | Chamber Music in France: Saint-Saens, Franck, Faure and Debussy | |
| 10 | Quiz 1 | |
| Part 3: Drama in the Theater and the Church: Opera and Church Music | ||
| 11 | Weber and Wagner | Honour. Chapter 8. |
| 12 | Donizetti and Verdi | |
| 13 | Verdi (cont.) and Gounod | |
| 14 | Tchaikowsky | |
| Intermezzo: Nationalism | ||
| 15 | Smetana, Grieg, Dvorak, Moussorgsky | Honour. Chapter 6. |
| Part 4: Orchestral Music: Programatic and Absolute | ||
| 16 | Mendelssohn and Schubert | |
| 17 | Berlioz | |
| 18 | Schumann and Brahms | |
| 19 | Tchaikowsky | |
| 20 | Bruckner and Sibelius | |
| 21 | Mahler | |
| 22 | Elgar, Strauss and Debussy | |
| 23 | Quiz 2 | |
| Part 5: Romanticism in America | ||
| 24 | Foster, Gottschalk, Beach, Foote and Chadwick | |
| Finale | ||
| 25 | Salon I | |
| 26 | Salon II | |