Syllabi for Winter Classes

Two courses in downtown Chicago are starting the second week of January: Beethoven Piano Sonatas and Early Modern Eastern European Masters (Bartok, Kodaly, Janacek and Martinu. Scroll down this page for class information and how to register.

There is also a one-day seminar Saturday, January 10 on introductory music literacy. Click here for information.

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Counts as a Focused Music Study course for the Language of Music Certificate.
Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas comprehensively defined the sonata and revolutionized pianistic technique. This course will examine some of Beethoven’s most influential works in the genre, such as the “Moonlight,” “Waldstein,” “Appassionata,” and “Hammerklavier” sonatas. Topics will include
the nature of Beethoven’s sonatas, their historical significance, and their unique status in Western art.

Section Number: 09W1
1/13/2009 - 3/3/2009
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Tuition: $355.00
Early-Bird Tuition: $325.00 until 12/15/2008
Location: Downtown Gleacher

Please call 773/702-1722 to register.

Syllabus

Week 1:
3 Sonatas, Op. 2 (1795); Grande Sonata, Op. 7 (1797)

Week 2:
3 Sonatas, Op. 10 (1796-98); Sonata Pathetique, Op. 13 (1799); 2 Sonatas, Op. 14 (1799)

Week 3:
Sonata, Op. 22 (1800); Sonata, Op. 26 (1801); 2 Sonatas quasi una fantasia, Op. 27 (1801)

Week 4:
Sonata Pastorale, Op. 28 (1801); 3 Sonatas, Op. 31 (1802); Two Easy Sonatas, Op. 49 (No. 1: 1798, No. 2: 1796. These will be only briefly considered.)

Week 5:
Sonata, Op. 53 “Waldstein” (1804); Sonata, Op. 54 (1804); Sonata, Op. 57 “Appassionata” (1805)

Week 6:
Sonata, Op. 78 (1809); Sonata, Op. 79 (1809); Sonata, Op. 81a (Les Adieux -1809); Sonata, Op. 90 (1814)

Week 7:
Sonata, Op. 101 (1816); Sonata, Op. 106 (1818)
Both sonatas are marked “For the Hammerklavier”

Week 8:
Sonata, Op. 109 (1820); Sonata, Op. 110 (1821); Sonata, Op. 111 (1822)

Early Modern Masters

Counts as a Music Genre course for the Language of Music Certificate.
This course will examine the explosive trends toward personal expression and nationalism at the end of the Romantic Era, with special emphasis on the early modern masters who stamped the 20th century with its signature elements. Folk music and nationalist aspirations will be examined in Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Leos Janacek, and Bohuslav Martinu.

Section Number: 09W1
1/15/2009 - 3/5/2009
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Tuition: $355.00
Early-Bird Tuition: $325.00 until 12/15/2008
Location: Downtown Gleacher

Click here to register for this course or call 773/702-1722.

Syllabus

Week 1: The String Quartet
Bartok: The 6 quartets (1909, 1917, 1927, 1928, 1934, 1939)

Janacek: Kreutzer Sonata (1923), Intimate Letters (1928)

Week 2: Stage Music I
Janacek: Jenufa (1923)

Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1917), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919, orchestrated 1924)

Week 3: Misc. Orchestral Music

Janacek: Sinfonietta (1926)

Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (1936), Concerto for Orchestra (1943)

Kodaly: Concerto for Orchestra (1942)

Week 4: The Concerto
Bartok: The 3 piano concertos (1926, 1931, 1945), Violin Concerto (1938)

Martinu: A brief overview of his many concertos

Week 5: Choral Music

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass (1926)

Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus (1926)

Bartok: Cantata Profana (1930)

Martinu: Opening of the Wells (1955)

Week 6: The Symphony

Kodaly: C Major (1961)

Martinu: The 6 symphonies (1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1951)

Week 7: Piano Music
Works subject to change

Janacek: Overgrown Path (1901), Sonata (1905)

Kodaly: 9 Pieces Op. 3 (1910)

Martinu: Brief selections from Dance Sketches (1933), Etudes and Polkas (1946)

Bartok: 7 Sketches (1911). Etudes (1918), Sonata (1926), Out of Doors (1927), Mikrokosmos (completed 1939)

N.B. Bartok is the main composer for this session.

Week 8: Stage Music II
Martinu: Juliette (1938)

Janacek: Kata Kabanova (1921), The Cunning Little Vixen (1923), From the House of the Dead (1928)