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COURSE OUTLINE |
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Tentative Schedule |
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1.0 |
The Enlightenment |
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1.1 |
Philosophy |
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1.1.1 |
Revolutionary thought |
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1.1.2 |
The social contract |
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1.2 |
Literature |
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1.2.1 |
Satire |
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1.2.2 |
Comedy of manners |
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1.3 |
Music |
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1.3.1 |
Sonata and sonata-allegro (symphony |
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1.3.2 |
Mozart |
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1.4 |
Visual Arts |
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1.4.1 |
Rococo |
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1.4.2 |
Neoclassicism |
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1.5 |
Concepts |
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1.5.1 |
Optimism |
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1.5.2 |
Deism |
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1.5.3 |
Influence of science |
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2.0 |
Romanticism |
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2.1 |
Poetry |
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2.2 |
Music |
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2.2.1 |
Beethoven |
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2.2.2 |
Program music (vs. pure) |
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2.3 |
Painting |
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2.3.1 |
Colorists |
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2.3.2 |
Painterly |
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2.3.3 |
Landscapes |
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2.3.4 |
Development of impressionism |
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2.4 |
Philosophy - Dionysian vs. Apollonian |
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2.5 |
Concepts |
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2.5.1 |
Back-to-nature |
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2.5.2 |
The sublime |
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2.5.3 |
Primacy of feeling and imagination |
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2.5.4 |
Classicism vs. romanticism |
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2.5.5 |
Nationalism |
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3.0 |
Modernism and the 20th Century |
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3.1 |
Visual Arts |
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3.1.1 |
Expressionism |
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3.1.2 |
Abstraction |
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3.2 |
Philosophy |
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3.3 |
Literature |
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3.4 |
Music: breakdown of traditional tonality |
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3.5 |
Concepts |
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3.5.1 |
Pluralism: isms/schisms |
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3.5.2 |
Skepticism and tradition (breakdown) |