Music History 2 at Jakarta Conservatory of Music

Syllabus planned by Hazim Suhadi

Text and Materials:

1. Forney, Kristine, and Joseph Machlis. The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive
Listening. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. Print.

Term 1
Tentative Schedule
Week Topics
1 January 14 NO CLASS
2 January 21 The Spirit of Romanticism
3 January 28 NO CLASS - Chinese New Year
4 February 4 Song in the Romantic Era
Romantic Piano Music
5 February 11 Music in 19th-century America
6 February 18 Romantic Program Music
7 February 25 Absolute Music in the 19th Century
8 March 4 National Schools of Romantic Opera
9 March 11 Late Romantic and Post-Romantic Music
10 March 18 MIDTERM ASSESSMENT

Term 2
Tentative Schedule
Week Topics
11 March 25 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
12 April 1 Early Modern Musical Style
13 April 15 Music of the Early Modernists
14 April 22 European National Schools
15 April 29 American Modernism in Music
Nationalism in the Americas
16 May 6 The Rise of American Popular Styles:
Ragtime, Blues and Jazz
17 May 13 Musical Theater
Music for Films
18 May 20 New Directions in the Arts:
The New Virtuosity of the Modern Age
Contemporary Composers Look to World Music

19 May 27 Technology and Music

Some Current Trends
20 June 3 FINAL EXAM