MUTH 323 - Baroque and Classical Concerto

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3
The alternation of contrasting forcesis a compositional technique used throught the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This course explores that technique in relation to form and tonal structure in teh instrumental concerto from approximately 1680-1810. The first section investigates historical antecedents and the genre’s first flowring in the music of Corelli and Vivaldi. The second section deals with the culmination of the Baroques concderto as represented in Handel’s Concerto Grossi, Op. 6 and in Bach’s Brandenbure concertos. The third section begins with the trnasition to the Classicl concerto and concludes with study of selected movements by Mozart.
Instructor: A. Cadwallader
Prerequisites & Notes
MUTH 202 and MUTH 232. Consent of instructor required. Limit 20.

The course requires a 10-page paper on an analytical or historical topic approved by the instructor.