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Music 15, Fall 2019 Unit 2 Assignment Private and Public I: The Symphony in London and Vienna Due: Wednesday, October 2, 8pm Listening: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Symphony No. 94, “Surprise” (1791) Movement 2, Andante Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” (1803-04) Movement 1, Allegro con brio Movement 4, Allegro molto Reading: Rice, Music in the Eighteenth Century London in the 1790s, 237-243 Vienna in the Napoleonic Era, 254-256 Beethoven’s Heroic Style, 264-269 Weiss and Taruskin, Music in the Western World Haydn’s Reception in London, 313-316 The First Reactions to Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, 328-329 McVeigh, Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn Audience Attitudes and Behavior, 60-62 Assignment: I.

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After completing the reading, please answer the question below in one to two paragraphs. a. Briefly explain the role that London’s growing concert culture played in Joseph Haydn’s late career. Come up with two discussion questions. a. One about Haydn’s career as a court servant b. One which deals with the cultural and economic factors that affected Beethoven’s compositional output

Assignment cannot exceed two pages. All discussion questions must spark discussion, in other words these should be thoughtful and probing, not yes-no, true-false, would-you-rather, or hypothetical. Turn in this assignment as a Microsoft Word document by 8pm on Wednesday, October 2 in the designated assignment folder on GauchoSpace. For reference during discussion, please bring a physical copy of your assignment to your section time. Your assignment should be in standard format (name, date, section time, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, etc.). Your TA will grade this assignment, and you may be asked to share it with your classmates....