This web page and its associated links serves as a communications site for MUH 4351 / MUH 5356 at the University of Central Florida. Posted here are various information pages, assignments, study guides, and links to useful web sites. Students in this course are free to print any of these pages for their own use.

Undergraduate Syllabus - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc. for Undergraduates

Graduate Syllabus - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc. for Master's-level students

Daily Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Fall 2019

Assignments - Instruction Sheets for MUH 4351 / MUH 5356 out-of-class projects

• Composer Biography
• Paper on 18^th-century Theory
• Paper on 18^th-century Performance Practice
• Major Paper (UG and Grad)

Course Readings

A list of all items (Books, Articles, Scores & Recordings) used in class and now in the UCF Library (or elsewhere) for use in your studying.

Course Listening

A list of links to streaming audio and video (chiefly in YouTube) of the music examples in Rice, Anthology for Music in the Eighteenth Century, used in class for use in your studying.

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 resources under "Databases":

• Classical Music Library (Streaming Audio Recordings)
• JSTOR (online retrospective collection of Scholarly Journals in PDF)
• Oxford Music Online (includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II)
• Project Muse (online collection of currently published Scholarly Journals, including: Music and Letters, MLA Notes, The Opera Quarterly, and others)
• Eighteenth-Century Music (Cambridge Journals Online)

One of the largest web sites for free downloadable scores of choral music. Searchable by composer, title, etc. Files display and print as PDF documents.

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. Use the window at the left on the home page to search "Strauss," which gives access to a significant number of early Strauss scores that are now in the public domain. Scores may be viewed as PDFs and can be downloaded.

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.

The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is an archive of 17,733 texts used in Lieder and other classical Art Songs (Kunstlieder, Mélodies, Canzoni, Romansy, Canciones, Liederen, Canções, Sånger, Laulua, etc.) as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces (27,128 settings and growing). Several thousand translations to English, French, German, Spanish and other languages are also offered.

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

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.

The following links connect to brief (750-1000 word) biographies of a few of the more important musical figures in the 18^th century, written by members of the Fall 2011 and Spring 2014 sections of MUH 4351/5356.

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, a Sunday evening show on Bluegrass, and Saturday broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera. WUCF-FM is available to you through the Internet to anyone with a Real Player Plug-in.

Orlando's public radio station broadcasts primarily news and other NPR programming, with occasional music-related shows, 24-hours a day. Use the "pull-down" menu under "90.7" on the tool bar at the top of the home page to reach the web link for listening to WMFE's broadcast.

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.