This web page and its associated links serves as a communications site for MUH 3212 at the University of Central Florida. Posted here are various information pages, assignments, study guides, and links to useful web sites. Students in MUH 3212 are free to print any of these pages for their own use in the course.

Syllabus (Fall 2012) - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc.

Schedule - Tentative list of reading & listening assignments (under construction)

Daily Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Fall 2012

Assignments - Instruction Sheets for MUH 3212 out-of-class projects

• Analysis Project
• Opera Video Project

Review Sheets for Evan Bonds, A History of Music in Western Civilization, 3^rd Ed, Vol. II (Warfield)
NB. Individual review sheets will be posted after each chapter has been covered in class.

• Bonds, Prelude to Part IV
• Bonds, Chapter 11
• Bonds, Chapter 12
• Bonds, Chapter 13
• Bonds, Prelude to Part V
• Bonds, Chapter 14
• Bonds, Chapter 15
• Bonds, Chapter 16
• Bonds, Chapter 17
• Bonds, Chapter 18
• Bonds, Prelude to Part VI
• Bonds, Chapter 19
• Bonds, Chapter 20
• Bonds, Chapter 21
• Bonds, Chapter 22
• Bonds, Chapter 23
• Bonds, Chapter 24

Supplemental & Reserve Items

A list of any supplementary items (Scores, Recordings, Books, etc.) used in class and now in the UCF Library for use as supplemental materials in your studying.

PowerPoint Slides from Class Lectures

For Those without Microsoft PowerPoint installed on your computer, there are at least two free alternatives available for downloading from the web:

• Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007 will allow you to read PowerPoint slides, but not to edit them.
• Open Office is an "open source" application that is compatible with Microsoft applications, including PowerPoint.

Home page of the UCF Library, with full access to the online catalog. On-campus users and those with a UCF ISP may also have access to the online versions of the following electronic databases:

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II
• Classical Music Library
• The Music Index Online - (Available on the UCF Library's Web page under "Database Titles 'M'")
• Music Literature Abstracts (RILM) - (Available on the UCF Library's Web page under "Database Titles 'M'")

Home page of the largest library and largest music library in the world. Search its catalog via the link near the top of the page.

A searchable index of doctoral dissertations written in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Although primarily an index of American dissertations, it also includes many of the more recent European dissertations.

An excellent online essay (posted as part of the "International World History Project") that explains the basic ideas of the Enlightenment.

An informative website created by three students at the University of Michigan.

An outstanding site that includes almost anything that one might want related to W.A. Mozart

Another outstanding site devoted to Mozart, which includes numerous full-text articles, among them Neal Zaslaw's "Mozart as a Working Stiff". (Scroll down on the main page and follow the link to "Group 3," where another link opens Zaslaw's article as a PDF document.)

Although created and maintained by musical amateurs, this web site provides an excellent range of materials, including biographical and other essays, scanned images of scores, documents and photos, many other useful tools for the person interested in Mozart.

An online library exhibition at Cornell University that "presents a [scanned] collection of documents and objects that illuminate how this music was performed and understood in Mozart's time and in the two hundred fifty years since."

Home page of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University. Includes a wide range of resources, including an on-going bibliography database.

A web site devoted to Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Eroica," consisting chiefly of comparisons of numerous performances of that work.

Beethoven's "Heiligenstadt Testament"

In 1802, Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers in which he revealed his impending deafness and what that meant to him as a musician. Below are 3 websites with translations of that important document.

• Classical Music Page Historical Documents- Heiligenstädter Testament
• Ludwig van Beethoven - Heiligenstadt Testament
• The Heiligenstadt Testament

A general interest set of web pages, maintained by two British academics.

The home web page of a scholarly society devoted to the serious study of Johannes Brahms and his music.

A new web site posted in the winter of 2003 by the University of Chicago Library, which owns a significant collection of early editions of music by Fredyrick Chopin. According to their web site, "[t]hese editions are of particular interest to Chopin scholars and bibliographers because Chopin's works were often published concurrently in several countries with variant texts. Early re-printings were issued using the same plates, causing difficulties identifying first and subsequent impressions. Scholars can establish a sequence of publication by comparing a range of printings. The collection at the University of Chicago, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center, contains evidence that contributes to an understanding of the printing and publishing history of Chopin's works."

The only adequate web site on Liszt is maintained by a private individual. It does include some useful biographical information and recommendations on recordings, among other things.

A brief biographical sketch by musicologist and program anotator Richard Rodda.

This notice of Felix Mendelssohn's death appeared in The Musical Times (January 1848), the leading English-language music periodical of the time. Mendelssohn, who had visited England on several occasions, and his music was well-known in Great Britain.

A web site established on the centennial of Clara Schumann's death in 1996, with much information on one of the greatest pianists of the 19th century.

The premiere opera company in America and also one of the world's finest. Located in New York City, the "Met" is heard throughout the United States every Saturday during the opera season (late September through early May) via free public radio broadcasts. This very useful website includes a complete schedule of all performances, detailed information about the operas performed (including background, plot and casts), and search tools for locating radio stations throughout the country that carry the Met broadcasts. Broadcasts in the Orlando area may be heard on the University's own WUCF-FM (89.9) and WHIM-AM (1520).

A general web site for information of all kinds about opera. Includes links to biographical information on composers and librettists, plot summaries and translations, and current performances worldwide.

An opera web site devoted primarily to indexing recordings and performers. It also includes basic historical information. Searchable by composers, performers, operas, and opera houses/companies. Note that this site is multi-lingual (use the British flag to translate texts to English).

Home page of the "Verdi Festival Foundation," a group supported by various Italian citizens, governments, etc., to promote the music and memory of Giuseppe Verdi. The most useful links (in the menu at the left of any page) are under "Giuseppe Verdi: his life and works."

An excellent, extensive web site with much information on Wagner and his music.

A web site that claims to be "A Comprehensive Guide To The Musical Themes of Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen." While not necessarily "comprehensive," this site does include an extensive listing of most of the Leitmotifs used in the Ring, complete with a score example and sound file for each. There is a short, but useful "Introduction."

The web site of the Richard Wagner Festival and the Wagner Festspielhaus in Bayreuth that was built specifically for the production of Wagner's Music Dramas. Although the site is in German, you can negotiate the site with the menu at the left (and a bit of guesswork). To see the photographs of the building and its interior, follow the "Das Haus" link in the menu, and then choose the "Rundgang durch das Festspielhaus" option. Beneath the map of the grounds will be a list (auf Deutsch) of links to images of various places within the house. (NB. Each image that you visit will also have a number of additional images below it.)

An excellent web site with lots of information, including many pictures and a few video clips, about the leading German composer at the beginning of the 20th century.

An extensive web site devoted to the life and music of this influential composer. Follow the links to the various genres for brief sound excerpts from most of his works.

A general essay with some additional information via various links.

An excellent general web site with both biographical information and introductory essays on Berg's music.

A web site devoted to Schoenberg's second famous pupil, complete with biographical information, photographs, and soundfiles.

A web page that consists of links to several other web sites with information about the United States' most original composer.

An outstanding web site maintained by the U.S. Library of Congress. This site includes basic biographical information and a large amount of primary resources (photographs, letters, sketches, etc.) that have been digitally scanned.

The official web site of this influential American composer.

The official web site of the winner of 2003 Pultizer Prize for Music Composition.

The official web site of an organization founded sixty years ago by Aaron Copland and others to promote serious American music. Follow the link to New Music Box for all the latest news on current events in the world of American "classical" music, as well as an archive of back issues. The AMC also has a variety of resources for information on new music in the United States.

Home page of the New York-based organization founded in 1987 by Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang to promote serious new music.

Home page of one of the most successful and popular of the newest generation of American composers.

As Central Florida's local professional symphony orchestra, the OPO performs a variety of concert series in and around Orlando. Follow the “Events” link on the home page to view the various concert series they present.

The Winter Park Bach Festival is internationally known as the fourth oldest Bach Festival in the United States, having been founded in 1935 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. This organization hosts a series of classical concerts throughout the year, as well as an extended Bach Festival in the early spring, on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park.

The web site of the University of Central Florida's own non-commercial radio station. Its programming is primariliy jazz, but WUCF also carries some NPR programming and Saturday broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera. WUCF-FM is available to you through the Internet to anyone with a Real Player Plug-in.

The University of Florida's public radio station in Gainesville broadcasts a mix of classical, jazz, folk, and world music, as well as news and NPR programming 24-hours a day. WUFT-FM can be heard through the web link on their home page.

Web site of "Real Player," one of the standard plug-ins that you might need to listen to web broadcasts and streaming audio, or to play CDs through your computer. The basic player can be downloaded at now cost from this site.

Web site of "Windows Media Player," another plug-in the is used for listening to web broadcasts, streaming audio and CDs.

Web site of one of the most widely used software packages for writing and printing music with computers. Various demo versions and upgrades are available for downloading, as is a help center for users.

The Web site of Coda Music, makers of the widely used Finale program for writing and printing music. A basic form of the program is available as a free download.