MUSI V3142 - Opera and Modernism

Institution:

Columbia University in the City of New York

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Description:

This course approaches the history of musical modernism through the lens of opera. Although we'll be consi dering many of the major stylistic movements of the twentieth century, we'll also be discussing how the sheer stubbornness of operatic tradition complicates narratives of development and progress. We'll be listening to six operas in their entirety: Claude Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande, Alban Berg's Wozzeck, Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The Rake's Progress, Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, and John Adams' Nixon in China.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.columbia.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-1754

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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