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3.00 Credits
Studies Wagner's concept of Gesamtkunstwerk (total art work) as reflected in his music dramas and theoretical writings; their influence on the arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Greenwald
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Examines the genre of the symphony as it evolved in response to Beethoven's symphonic output. Attention given first to the Beethovenian symphonic ideal and its cultural context then to symphonies by Schubert, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Franck, Bruckner, Mahler, and others. Grade will be based on listening quizzes, short response papers on specific works and a final project on a topic to be chosen by the student. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Markovic'-Stokes
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Surveys the conventions of 19th-century Italian opera covering works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Puccini. Changes in the libretto, musical structure, and role of singers are studied through developments in individual composer's styles. Works chosen for this semester are Rossini's Barber of Seville, Verdi'sRigoletto, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly. There will be listening quizzes, short essays on the chosen operas, and an individual term project. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Greenwald
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This course traces the history of the Requiem from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. Requiems to be studied include Gregorian Chant, Ockeghem, Schütz, Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms, Verdi, Fauré, Duruflé and Britten. Emphasis will be placed on thechanging role of the church and the concepts of death and afterlife as illustrated in the music and text. Contextual works that focus on death will also be studied in each period. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Handel
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Traces developments in French music from the renaissance of the 1870s to the serial revolution of the 1950s. Representative composers include Fauré, Debussy, Satie, Poulenc, Messiaen, and Boulez. The foundation of the Société Nationale deMusique, the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889, WWI and WWII are studied as catalysts for aesthetic developments in French culture. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Handel
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the musical language, style and genres of post-romantic music. In the center of attention will be works by Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, but contextual explorations of selected pieces by their precedents (primarily Richard Wagner), contemporaries (Hugo Wolf) and antecedents (Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg) will be studied as well. The method of inquiry will be the analytical and interpretative study of selected works by Bruckner, Mahler and Strauss, with consideration of issues such as the expansion of tonal language, redefinition of traditional forms and genres, the relationship between music and text, music and program, music and religion and music and philosophy. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Markovic' -Stokes
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3.00 Credits
Examines the music and parallel careers of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Heiss
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Studies the major musical trends since 1945: extended serialism, electronic and aleatory music, return to free atonality, performance virtuosity, and improvisation. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Heiss
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Examines the music of Ives and Bartók, with emphasis on its social and ethnic context. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Heiss
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the aesthetic impulses that created a dramatic shift in musical and artistic developments in the period between the 1890's and 1920's. One pathto expressionism follows the dissolution of romanticism in the works of Mahler, Strauss, Scriabin and early Schoenberg. Another important path that will be examined is the return to the primal, uninhibited past in the works of Stravinsky and Bartok. At the center of our exploration will be the expressionist angst in works by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern where we will follow the path from the abandonment of tonality and thematicism to 12-tone technique. These works will be studied against the background of contemporaneous developments in visual arts and literature (Kokoschka, Schiele, Kandinsky, Nolde, Kirchner, Munch, Dehmel, Wedekind, Strindberg). Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Markovic'-Stokes
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