HISTORY
For the adult student, PCM offers a series of music history classes exploring the various genres of Western music. Courses are ten weeks in length. A total of three music history classes will be offered this year. All classes meet for 2 hours and 15 minutes. Below is a full description of each class. A full description of offerings for adults can be found in the "Classes for Adults" brochure--which may be requested by calling 626-683-3355. Please note that these adult history classes follow a calendar different from the school calendar.
FALL 2011
Haydn, Mozart and the Classical Style
September 20 - November 29 (10 weeks)
Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Instructor: Priscilla Pawlicki
Quarterly Tuition: $275 / 250*
In 1781 Mozart and Haydn met for the first time in Vienna and began a friendship that flourished despite striking differences in personality. Haydn was even-tempered and highly-organized, while Mozart was more impulsive and mercurial in nature. Yet there was much admiration between the two composers and both acknowledged an indebtedness to the other. Explore the music of the Classical period through the instrumental works of these two composers and grasp both the similarities and striking differences in their compositional styles.
WINTER 2012
Beethoven and the Transformation of Classical Style
January 10 - March 13 (10 weeks)
Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Instructor: Priscilla Pawlicki
Quarterly Tuition: $275 / 250*
Beethoven’s piano sonatas, string quartets and symphonies chronicle the evolution of the composer’s style from his early period with its roots in the Classical tradition of Haydn and Mozart to his late works characterized by profound expressiveness and harmonic freedom that paved the way for nineteenth-century Romanticism. Follow Bee-thoven’s remarkable development through these three instrumental genres from the 1790s to the closing years of his life.
SPRING 2012
Nineteenth-Century Lieder: The Art Songs of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf
April 10 - June 12 (10 weeks)
Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Instructor: Priscilla Pawlicki
Quarterly Tuition: $275 / 250*
The special relationship between music and poetry found new expression in the 19th century with the rise of the German art song, one of the most sensitive and special ge-nres in music. Inspired by the poetry of great writers such as Goethe, Muller, Heine and Eichendorff as well as the popularity of the rapidly-developing piano, Schubert, Schu-mann, Brahms and Wolf produced a rich body of lieder that captured the drama of the texts in their vocal settings and in the inventive figurations of the piano.
*Students concurrently enrolled in individual instruction at PCM pay the reduced fee.
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