Butler University

MH306W (Fall 2019)

Music History and Literature II (Baroque and Classical)
Section 1 - MWF 10:00-10:50 am, LH 145
Section 2 – MWF 11:00-11:50 am, LH 145

Instructor
Dr. Nicholas Johnson
Email: ndjohns1@butler.edu
Office: LH 214/221
Office Phone: 317-940-9256
Office Hours: MWF, 12:00-1:00

Teaching Assistant
Music History Graduate Assistant
Daniel Backfish-White
Grad Office: LH 18
Office Hours: Monday, 2:00-3:00; Thursday, 10:00-11:00
Email: dpwhite1@butler.edu

Course Description

MH306W is an introductory survey of the Western European traditions of art music from
the opportunity the early Baroque to the late Classical era. It is the third semester of the
four-semester music history sequence, consisting of MH305, 306, 307, and 308.

Student Learning Objectives

This course will contribute to the following Butler University School of Music student
learning objectives:

 A broad knowledge of music, including its historical and cultural context.

 The ability to gather, evaluate, and communicate musical information and ideas
verbally and in writing.

Writing Intensive

This course also fulfills the University’s writing requirement for a course taken in your
junior or senior year that focuses on writing skills needed by professionals in your
discipline. It goes without saying that working musicians, composers, conductors,
administrators and educators must be good writers. The art of marketing (i.e. attracting
agents, audiences, grant agencies, publishers, recording contracts, etc.) depends upon the
written word, and success typically attends those who effectively communicate and
market themselves through writing. This course will prepare you to be an effective
communicator, by offering you the chance to refine your writing skills and develop the

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 research skills necessary to ask and answer vital questions about the music you perform,
study, teach, or create.

Butler WAC Requirement Structure

Students must take one course at or above the 300-level in any part of the University that
provides opportunities for formal and informal writing, with opportunities for revision.
The course must be taken after the student has attained junior standing at the University.

WAC Learning Objectives

 To refine habits conducive to good writing developed at earlier stages in Core

education and education in the major.
 To use writing both as a tool for learning and as a means for communicating
about ideas within a discipline or profession.

Policy on Accommodations for Documented Disabilities

It is the policy and practice of Butler University to provide reasonable accommodations

for students with properly documented disabilities. Written notification from Student
Disability Services is required. If you are eligible to receive an accommodation and
would like to request it for this course, please contact Student Disability Services. Allow
one week advance notice to ensure enough time for reasonable accommodations to be
made. Otherwise, it is not guaranteed that the accommodation can be provided on a
timely basis. Students who have questions about Student Disability Services or who have,
or think they may have, a disability (psychiatric, attentional, learning, vision, hearing,
physical, medical, etc.) are invited to contact Student Disability Services for a
confidential discussion in Jordan Hall, Room 136 or by phone at 317-940-9308.

Policy on Accommodations for Religious Observance

Butler University respects all students’ right to religious observance and will reasonably
accommodate students’ religious practice with regard to class attendance, examinations,
and assignments when requests are made in a timely manner. Butler University
recommends that each class should have a syllabus that provides a schedule of activities
for the class. It is the student’s responsibility to inform instructors of course conflicts
resulting from religious observations at least two weeks in advance of the observance, so
that accommodations can be made. Requests must be made in writing, and the student
should include a proposed alternative due date, examination date, or make-up outline.
The professor should review the request and if the student’s proposed suggestion is
acceptable, should notify the student of the agreement. Any solution that is mutually
agreeable to both student and faculty member is acceptable. If accommodations cannot be
agreed upon, the instructor and students should seek the advice of the associate dean in
the appropriate college. No adverse or prejudicial effects will result to students because
they have made use of these provisions.

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Course Goals and Objectives

In studying music history, we will focus on the activities of three (possibly overlapping)
groups of people: composers, performers, and listeners. We will study compositional
techniques and musical styles to see how surviving musical works were made by
composers. We will consider what is known about performance practices, to understand
what performers added to the notes that have come down to us. And we will discuss what
the original audiences might have gotten out of their experiences with music.

In this course you will continue to develop the skills you have cultivated in MH305 and
will carry into MH307:

 You will be able to identify specific works of music by listening

 You will become familiar with a large number of musical styles and genres
 You will understand how changes in performance and compositional style have
occurred over time
 You will learn about European history from the seventeenth through the
eighteenth centuries as it affects music
 You will learn to write about specific works of music descriptively and
historically

You will also learn about the nature of historical evidence, and become aware of issues
that will be significant throughout your study of music history. The questions and
approaches to studying music that will be useful include:

 How have musicologists discovered what we know about the music of the past?
 How have these materials been deciphered and interpreted?
 What information is lost and can only be imagined?

In this course, students will cultivate the skills necessary to conduct research and produce
writing at the level necessary for professionals in music-related disciplines. These skills
include the effective use of library resources, both in print and electronic, and the
production of good writing.

Course Materials

Required texts and recordings are available through the Butler University bookstore, or
you may wish to purchase used copies online. The materials you purchased for MH305
are the same materials you will need for this course. You will use these materials again in
MH307.

Required Textbooks and Recordings

Barbara Hanning, Concise History of Western Music, 4th or 5th edition

Peter Burkholder and Claude Palisca, Norton Anthology of Music, Vols 1 and 2
7th edition

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 The Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, concise version, 6th edition

Suggested Resources for Further Reading

Source Readings
1. Oliver Strunk, ed., Source Readings in Music History, rev. edn. by Leo Treitler (New
York: Norton, 1998).
2. Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin, eds., Music in the Western World: A History in
Documents (New York: Schirmer, 1984).

Standard Histories
1. Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music (Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005), 6 vols.
2. Sarah Fuller. The European Musical Heritage, 800-1750 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1987).
3. John Walter Hill, Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580-1750 (New York:
Norton, 2005).
4. Philip Downs, Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (New York:
Norton, 1992).
5. Daniel Heartz, Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780 (New York:
Norton, 2003).
6. Daniel Heartz, Mozart, Haydn, and Early Beethoven (New York: Norton, 2008).
7. Daniel Heartz, Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School (New York: Norton, 1995).

Music-Related Research
1. Laurie Sampsel, Music Research: A Handbook (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2008).
2. Phillip Crabtree and Donald H. Foster, Sourcebook for Research in Music
(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005).
3. Vincent Duckles and Michael A. Keller, Music Reference and Research Materials: An
Annotated Bibliography (New York: Schirmer Books, 1996).

Writing About Music

1. Jonathan Bellman, A Short Guide to Writing About Music, second edition (New York:
Pearson Longman, 2007).
2. D. K. Holoman, Writing About Music: A Style Sheet, second edition (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2008).
3. Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations,
seventh edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
4. William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style (New York: Penguin,
2007).

STUDENT DISABILITY SERVICES COURSE SYLLABUS STATEMENT:

It is the policy and practice of Butler University to provide reasonable accommodations

for students with properly documented disabilities. Written notification from Student

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 Disability Services is required. If you are eligible to receive an accommodation and
would like to request it for this course, please contact Student Disability Services. Allow
one week advance notice to ensure enough time for reasonable accommodations to be
made. Otherwise, it is not guaranteed that the accommodation can be provided on a
timely basis. Students who have questions about Student Disability Services or who have,
or think they may have, a disability (psychiatric, attentional, learning, vision, hearing,
physical, medical, etc.) are invited to contact Student Disability Services for a
confidential discussion in Jordan Hall, Room 136 or by phone at 940-9308.

Electronic Resources

Course Website
Student grades, powerpoints, supplementary materials, recordings, and course
announcements will be posted through the Moodle site for this course. To login, you will
need the username associated with your BUmail account and password. Then, proceed to
http://moodle.butler.edu/. MH 306 should be listed as one of your enrolled courses once
you submit your login information. I will send course announcements to your Butler e-
mail address through the Moodle system. You are required to register for a university e-
mail account in order to receive these e-mails.

Norton Study Space

The publisher of your textbook, W.W. Norton, maintains an online study space for this
textbook. You can access the study space at: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/
concise-historywestern-music4/. The Norton study space contains chapter outlines,
listening quizzes, flashcards, and a glossary of terms, and is a very useful aid for learning
or reviewing the material presented in the textbook, anthology and recordings. The
listening portions of the website are password protected, because of copyright laws, so
you will need to enter the access code that comes with your textbook. You will find the
code on a card at the front of your book.

Music LibGuide
Our music librarian, Sheri Stormes, has posted a very helpful guide to music resources
available to you as a Butler student on the library website:
http://libguides.butler.edu/music_basics. Please use this website as a starting point for
your research this semester, and create a bookmark for the “libguide” in your web
browser.

Student Requirements

 Attendance
 Complete reading and listening assignments before each class period
 Participate in writing seminars
 Complete several small writing assignments and one final paper
 Prepare for and take a Midterm and Final Exam. Both exams will include aural and
written components

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Assessment and Grading

 Attendance Policy: Attendance is mandatory. Students are allowed two free absences.
After these absences each additional absence will result in a lowering of the final grade
by 1%.

 Class Participation (5%): Students are expected to come to class having read the course
material and ready to discuss. Participation is also required during writing seminars and
exam reviews.

 Listening Exams (15%): Two listening exams will be given during the semester. Each
will be multiple choice and a review sheet will be distributed online before the exams.

 Midterm (20%): One exam will be given covering specified chapters. Reviews will be
conducted during class the session prior. Consult textbook website for additional review
materials: www.wwnorton.com/college/music/musichistory/

 Final Exam (30%): The Final Exam will cover all course material.

 Writing Assignments and Final Paper (30%): Students will complete several small
writing assignments throughout the semester in preparation for a final paper of
approximately 15 pages. More details about these assignments and the final paper will be
given throughout the class. All assignments are to be submitted on the course website.

o Writing Assignment 1 (5%): Topic Free-Write – Oct. 5

o Writing Assignment 2 (5%): Annotated Bibliography – Oct. 15
o Writing Assignment 3 (2%): First Abstract – Oct. 24
o Writing Assignment 4 (5%): First Draft – Nov. 5
o Writing Assignment 5 (3%): Final Abstract – Nov. 26
o Writing Assignment 6 (10%): Final Draft – Nov. 30

 Student Presentation (Extra Credit 2%): Students will be invited to further refine and
prepare for presentation at Butler’s 29th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference in
2018. In preparation for the university-wide conference, we will host our own “Student
Research Conference” on December 4 and 6. Each student will be invited to present their
abstract and participate in a question and answer session. Guests are encouraged, and the
conference will be advertised to other students, staff, and faculty in the School of Music.

Grading Scale

A 93-100
A- 90-92
B+ 87-89
B 83-86
B- 80-82
C+ 77-79

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 C 73-76
C- 70-72
D+ 67-69
D 63-66
D- 60-62
F 59 and below

Class Schedule

Readings are from Hanning, Concise History of Western Music, Listening exercises from
Norton Anthology of Western Music, Vols. 1 and 2. Some examples are found on Spotify
as noted below. The course Spotify link may be found on Moodle. Please come to class
having already read and listened to the material as scheduled.

*Note: Because of a recent change of edition, some of these page numbers may be
inaccurate. Either the 4th or 5th edition of the textbook will be fine, but you may need to
carefully watch the page numbers. The pages shown below are for the fourth edition.

Likewise, the score books have changed. Either the 6th or 7th edition of the Norton scores
will be acceptable, but you may need to get copies of a handful of scores from the library
or a classmate. I will address these in class. Normal page and core numbers are from the
older edition, numbers in bold are for the newer edition.

Aug 28 Course Introduction

Aug 30 The Baroque: Art, Music, Science, Culture

Reading: 169-81

Sep 2 LABOR DAY – NO CLASS

Sep 4 Vocal Music of the Early Baroque and the Invention of Opera
Reading: 182-88
Listening: Giulio Caccini, Verdo ‘l mio sol, 67, 72

Sep 6 Vocal Music of the Early Baroque and the Invention of Opera
Reading: 188-96
Listening: Claudio Monteverdi, L’Orfeo, 69, 74

Sep 9 Vocal Music of the Early Baroque and the Invention of Opera
Reading: 196-99
Listening: Claudio Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea, 70, 75

Sep 11 Vocal Music for Chamber and Church in the Early Baroque
Reading: 200-07, 200-208
Listening, Barbara Strozzi, Lagrime mie, 72, 77

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Sep 13 Vocal Music for Chamber and Church in the Early Baroque
Reading: 207-15, 208-212
Listening Giacomo Carissimi, Historia di Jephte, 76b, 80b; Heinrich Schütz,
Saul, was verfolgst du mich, 78, 81

Sep 16 Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century

Reading: 216-30, 213-227
Listening: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Toccata No. 3, 79, 82; Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet
de la Guerre, Suite in A Minor, 85, 88

Sep 18 Writing Seminar 1 – Library Tour and Music Research Resources

Meet in Irwin Library

Sep 20 Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century

Reading: 231-41, 227-239
Listening: Arcangelo Corelli, Trio Sonata Op. 3, No.2, 91 c-d, 94 c-d
Listening Exam 1

Sep 23 Italian Baroque

Reading: 242-47, 240-244
Listening: Alessandro Scarlatti, Clori vezzosa, e bella, 90, 92

Sep 25 No Class, Dr. Johnson in São Paulo presenting at Conference

Online lecture - French Baroque
Reading: 247-54, 244-251
Listening: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Armide, 82, 85

Sep 27 No Class, Dr. Johnson in São Paulo presenting at University

Online lecture - English Baroque
Reading: 254-62, 252-260
Listening: Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, 86, 89

Sep 30 Baroque Music in the Early 18th Century

Reading: 263-70, 261-268
Listening: Antonia Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 3,
No. 6, 93a, 96a

Oct 2 Baroque Music in the Early 18th Century

Reading: 270-75, 269-273
Listening: François Couperin, Vingt-cinquieme ordre, 94; Jean Philippe Rameau,
Hippolyte et Aricie, 95, 97

Oct 4 Baroque Music in the Early 18th Century

Reading: 275-82, 273-279
Listening: Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, 96, 100

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Oct 7 Writing Seminar 2 – Selecting a Topic

Oct 9 Baroque Music in the Early 18th Century

Reading: 282-289, 279-288
Listening: Johann Sebastian Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, 98a, 103a

Oct 11 Baroque Music in the Early 18th Century

Reading: 289-301, 288-299
Listening: George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare, 99b, 105 Saul, 100, 106
Topic Free-Write Due

Oct 14 Writing Seminar 3 – Citations and Annotations

Oct 16 Midterm Exam

Oct 18 NO CLASS – FALL BREAK

Oct 21 Writing Seminar 4 – Abstracts and Presentations

Annotated Bibliography Due

Oct 23 18th Century Europe

Reading: 303-13, 301-311

Oct 25 The Early Classic Period: Opera and Vocal Music

Reading: 314-21, 312-320
Listening: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, La serva padrona, 101, 107

Oct 28 The Early Classic Period: Opera and Vocal Music

Reading: 321-29, 320-325
Listening: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice, 104, 110

Oct 30 The Early Classic Period: Instrumental Music

Reading: 330-36, 326-332
Listening: Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in D Major, 106, 113
First Abstract Due

Nov 1 The Early Classic Period: Instrumental Music

Reading: 336-41, 332-337
Listening: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Sonata in A Major, 107, 114

Nov 4 Writing Seminar 5 – revising

Listening Exam

Nov 6 NO CLASS – Dr. Johnson at American Musicological Society Conference

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Nov 8 NO CLASS – Dr. Johnson at American Musicological Society Conference

Nov 11 The Late 18th Century: Haydn and Mozart

Reading: 342-50, 338-346
Listening: Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 92 in G major, 112c (x)
First Draft Due

Nov 13 The Late 18th Century: Haydn and Mozart

Reading: 350-56, 346-352
Listening: Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, 111, 118

Nov 15 The Late 18th Century: Haydn and Mozart

Reading: 357-65, 353-362
Listening: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in F Major, 114, 121

Nov 18 The Late 18th Century: Haydn and Mozart

Reading: 365-67, 362-365
Listening: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 41 in C Major, 116, 123

Nov 20 Writing Seminar 6 – Second Drafts

Nov 22 The Late 18th Century: Haydn and Mozart

Reading: 368-75, 365-369
Listening: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, 117, 124

Nov 25 NO CLASS – THANKSGIVING

Nov 27 NO CLASS – THANKSGIVING

Nov 29 NO CLASS – THANKSGIVING

Dec 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, First Period

Reading: 376-80, 370-374
Listening: Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13, 118, 125
Final Abstract Due

Dec 4 Ludwig van Beethoven, Second Period

Reading: 380-89, 375-381
Listening: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, 119,
126

Dec 6 Ludwig van Beethoven, Third Period

Reading: 390-97, 381-389
Listening: Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131,
120a, 127
Final Paper Due

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Dec 9 Student Presentations

Dec 11 Student Presentations

Dec 13 Final Review

Dec 16 Final Exam 1 – 8:00-10:00

Dec 20 Final Exam 2 – 11:30-1:30

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