LMusTCL Set Piece A Study I-2015-6 syllabus

LMusTCL (2015-16) Set Piece Study I

The Historical Development of Chamber Music:
Forms, Types, Styles and Aesthetics

Course Description:

The course is the Part I Unit which is designed according to the current LMusTCL (2013-14) Examination syllabus. While the Part I is the overall study of the development of chamber Music in relation to its styles and genres span from 1600 to 1900, the Part II will concentrate on exploring the development of chamber Music and developing variation techniques from the 18th century to the late 19th century with more emphasis on the formal/stylistic analysis of some masters’ chamber works (e.g. Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms works), including the set piece of Brahms’ Piano Quintet in C minor. Those students who want to enlarge their scope on the chamber music and to prepare for the examination are recommended to join the study.

The Content of the course of LMusTCL Set Piece Study I is as follows:

Lesson 1

Pianoforte: the History of the Instrument

Piano and Domestic Life (Receptive
History Of Piano)

Grove
Online

The
Piano

Lesson 2

Piano Music, Music Piano: Form, Styles,
Genres and Aesthetics (Brief History of the Piano Music)

Grove
Online

Lesson 3

Evolution of the Piano: Changing Styles
and Techniques

Three
Hundreds Years at the Keyboard

Lesson 4

Harpsichord Music: Its Forms and
Characteristics

Baroque Keyboard Genre its Issues (brief)

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

Lesson 5

Sample Studies:
Froberger, Frescobaldi, Louis Couperin, D. Scarlatti, Francoise Couperin, J S
Bach.

Analysis
of different Baroque keyboard genres

Lesson 6

Eighteenth-century
Classicism (brief)

Classical
Keyboard Music and its Issues

Five
Centuries of Keyboard Music

Lesson 7

Introduction
to the Topical Theory: Mozart and the Topos

L.
Ratner: Topical Content in Mozart’s
Keyboard Music

Lesson 8

Introduction
to the Development of Sonata Form

The
Golden Age of the Piano First Viennese School

Keyboard Music in 18th Century

Lesson 9

Piano
Romanticism: Piano Music and the Issues (brief)

The
Development of the 19th century Hausmusilk

Five
Centuries of Keyboard Music

Lesson 10

Studies: Beethoven,
Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms

Masters of the Keyboard

Music for Piano-short History

Lesson 11

The 19th
Century Piano Music and its Issues (brief)

Chopin’s
Nationalism and Liszt’s Expressive Resonance

19th Century Piano Music

Lesson 12

Impressionism
and Modernism on Piano Music

Studies: Ravel,
Debussy, and Bartok

Five
Centuries of Keyboard Music