This course focuses on a number of the most significant and controversial issues in the recent scholarship of Romantic music, as well as various trends in 19th-century aesthetics and performance practice. We will complement our discussion of scholarly debates with issues in musicianship such as performance practice. This focus is intended to help students develop independent and critical judgment on these issues, to strengthen their research and academic writing skills, and to sustain these skills with the aid of their performance background.

Dahlhaus, Carl. Nineteenth-Century Music. Trans. J. Bradford Robinson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Strunk, Oliver, ed., Source Readings in Music History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Charles Rosen. The Romantic Generation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Samson, Jim, ed. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.