Course Highlights
21M.271 Symphony and Concerto
Spring 2007
The beginning of the final section of the 4th movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral." (Image courtesy of the Internet Music Score Library Project, IMSLP.)
Course Description
This course is a survey of significant orchestral masterworks composed during three centuries. Listening assignments include 34 symphonies and 24 concertos, composed from the 1720s to the 1990s. Class discussion and oral presentations focus on the works in 18 miniature scores; prior score-reading experience is helpful. Each of the three written papers reviews a concert attended during the term. Since this is a participatory subject, each student will give oral presentations concerning composers and their symphonies and/or concertos.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
This course content is a redistribution of MIT Open Courses. Access to the course materials is free to all users.
This course content is a redistribution of MIT Open Courses. Access to the course materials is free to all users.
