Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Music

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE AGE OF MONTEVERDI ***** A study of early opera history from the beginning of the seventeenth Century through Mozart's operas of the 1760's and 70's. 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.