UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
MUSIC HISTORY SEMINAR:
"Ludwig van Beethoven"
MUH 6935 (Spring 2010)
Instructor: Scott Warfield

SECTION 1 (class # 11644) Class Meetings: Tuesday, 6:00 pm - 8:50 pm
Location: Colbourn Hall 207e

This web page and its associated links serves as a communications site for MUH 6935 (Spring 2010) 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.

Syllabus (Spring 2010) - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc.

Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Spring 2009

Assignments - Instruction Sheets for MUH 6935 out-of-class projects

Course Readings and Collective Bibliography

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

Useful Web Sites

Libraries and Search Tools

UCF Library
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 Library of Congress
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.
Doctoral Dissertations in Music On-Line
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.
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
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.
The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
"The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is an archive of texts used in 61,835 Lieder and other classical art songs, as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The collection currently indexes 37,970 texts and includes 7,600 translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages."
IPA Source
"IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts."

Useful Websites for Ludwig van Beethoven

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (San Jose State University)
One of the leading international centers for research into the music and life of Ludwig van Beethoven. The Center maintains a searchable Beethoven Gateway that indexes a vast collection of published information on Beethoven.
The Beethoven Haus (Bonn)
Web site of the museum associated with Beethoven's birthplace. Its resources include biographical information, photos, digital facsimiles, and other information in both German and English.
"All About Beethoven"
A general web site developed by unidentified Beethoven enthusiasts, with some very useful content, including biographical and bibliographical information, descriptions and analyses of his music, translated documents, some downloadable music, and many links to other useful resources.


Local Concert Information

Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
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 Festival of Orchestras
The Festival of Orchestras is a permanent concert series in Orlando’s Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, featuring five internationally acclaimed symphony orchestras each season.
The Winter Park Bach Festival
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.

Local & Regional Broadcasting Information

WUCF-FM (89.9)
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, including Saturday broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera. WUCF-FM is available to you through the Internet to anyone with a Real Player Plug-in.
WUFT-FM (89.1)
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 Sites for Downloadable Computer & Internet Tools

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