Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Music

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN THE 17TH & 18TH CENTURIES ***** Topics in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Early Opera. A study of early opera history, covering a selection of the operatic repertoire from the Italian "favole in musica" (those of Peri and Monteverdi) of the beginning of the 17th century through Mozart's operas of the 1760s and 70s. We will consider literary sources and their transformation into operatic librettos, musical forms and effective dramaturgy, and the aesthetics of the "dramma per musica" and the periodic "reform" movements of opera history. ***** Enrollment is limited to 15. Repeatable for Credit.