ABSTRACT
Teaching a survey of Western art music in the so-called Classic and Romantic eras is one of the great delights and challenges that an instructor of music history can face. Both the delight and the challenge remain vitally alive for the author every year, despite having taught the course for twenty-five years now at the Eastman School of Music. When the music history survey sequence, in most colleges and music schools, restricted itself to exploring the art-music traditions of Europe and the United States. "Teach the conflicts", runs Gerald Graff's famous proposal for how to approach the canonical masterpieces with undergraduates. Some involve juxtaposing a work of Western art music with a piece that is from a very different place and time yet resembles it in various technical respects. The chapter proposes solution for bringing different repertoires into the existing survey courses.
