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Music Tripos, 1999: Notice

The Faculty Board of Music give notice that they have prescribed the following papers and subjects for the Music Tripos in 1999 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 354):

PART IA

Paper 3. Subjects in the history of music I

  A. Melody as ritual.
B. Foundations of twentieth-century music.

Paper 4. Subjects in the history of music II and notation

  World music and the western intellectual tradition.

PART IB

Paper I. Stylistic composition (also serves as Paper 4 of Part II)

  The composers prescribed are: Buxtehude and François Couperin.

Paper 2. Subjects in the history of music I and ethnomusicology

  A. Italian opera from Monteverdi to Handel.
B. J. S. Bach in context and reception.
C. Traditional music of the Bolivian Andes.
D. Notation, c. 1420-1520.

Paper 3. Subjects in the history of music II

  A. The operas of Mozart.
B. Historicism in music, 1829-97.
C. Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: the three Viennese and their world.

PART II

Paper 2. Set works

  'Andalusian' nawbat in Tunisia.
Handel, Rodelinda.
Da Ponte and Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro.
Brahms's chamber music with clarinet.
Berg, Lulu

Paper 4. Stylistic composition

  See Paper 1 of Part IB.

Papers 6-14. Additional papers

   6. Performance practice.
 7. Perception and performance.
 8. Dialogues in world musics.
 9. The Roman de Fauvel.
10. Music, print, and culture in the renaissance.
11. Domenico Scarlatti and eighteenth-century musical style.
12. The song cycles of Schubert and Schumann.
13. The songs of Claude Debussy.
14. Ravel.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 13 May 1998
Copyright © 1998 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.