Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21M.271 (Spring 2007) 
• Course Title:
• Symphony and Concerto 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Music and Theater Arts 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Lowell Lindgren 
• Course Introduction:
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  21M.271 Symphony and Concerto
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2007

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  
  
  21M.271 Symphony and Concerto
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2007

  
  
  

  

  The beginning of the final section of the 4th movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral." (Image courtesy of the Internet Music Score Library Project, IMSLP.)

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course is a survey of significant orchestral masterworks composed during three centuries. Listening assignments include 34 symphonies and 24 concertos, composed from the 1720s to the 1990s. Class discussion and oral presentations focus on the works in 18 miniature scores; prior score-reading experience is helpful. Each of the three written papers reviews a concert attended during the term. Since this is a participatory subject, each student will give oral presentations concerning composers and their symphonies and/or concertos.