MUSIC 254Monteverdi to Mozart: Music from 1600-1800

Units: 0.50
Faculty: Arts
Subject: Music

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2024–25.

When it runs

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

A study of Baroque and Classical music of the 17th and 18th centuries in cultural, political, and artistic contexts. Topics include the development of opera, choral music, symphony, sonata, and the music of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Mozart, and others.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

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Leads to

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From 8 ratings and 3 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

If you like classical music, you must take this course!!!

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An interesting course and a great break form my engineering classes. Great exposure to new (to me) works of music.

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The textbook was extremely expensive and didn't really feel worth its price. All you really needed were 20 pages on Sonata form for the final, and the electronic portion was useful for finding pieces that were not on YouTube. Overall, the course material was straightforward and easy to follow. The listening pieces were the only area that could be tripped up on, but with detailed notes (Prof. Laura Gray provided her own notes for us) it was very easy to study for them. I would recommend this course, even to those with no knowledge of music!

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

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Fall 2017

Oct 28, 2017 Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

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Spring 2015

Jul 30, 2015 Music electives for engineers? 3 points, 3 comments

u/LittleEponine: “I have a CSE next term and I want to take a music elective. Has anyone taken music electives from the list? MUSIC 100, MUSIC 231, MUSIC 240, MUSIC 246, MUSIC 254, MUSIC 255, MUSIC 260, MUSIC 361 If you have, how was it? Would you recommend?”