3.00 Credits
Examines the musical and historical aspects of some representative works in foursignificant repertoires of nineteenth-century music: songs, characteristic works for piano,opera, and symphonies. Further examines how the works intersect with a number of social,cultural, aesthetic, political and economic themes that pervade the century, such as the riseof the middle class, city cultures, the domestic music market, the invention of the folk, nationalism and exoticism, social and political revolutions, idealism and its successors, and the virtuoso.