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GERM288

Music in the Culture of German-speaking Europe
GERM288 SP

Crosslistings: GELT288, COL 292

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       96      58         38

The course will focus on moments in the Western art music (i.e., "classical music") of primarily Austria and Germany over a period of two hundred years (approximately: Bach to Berg) and their relation to the cultural, social, and political history of their times. This is a listening course and a reading course, but not a survey course in the strictest sense, although we will explore in chronological fashion the relationships between many types of music and composers. We will try to answer these questions: 1) Are Germans/Austrians musical? 2) What political, ideological, and social role has music played within these cultures? and 3) What are the causes of the crisis of European art music in the twentieth century?

MAJOR READINGS

Selected listenings include (but are not
limited to) C.P.E. Bach, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Brahms, Wagner, Strauss, Schoenberg,
and Berg.
Readings will include letters of various composers, lyric
poetry of Goethe, stories of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Moerike, and
Mann, excerpts from Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, reviews
by Hanslick and Hoffmann, libretti of von Hofmannsthal and
others, and theoretical writings of Wagner and Schoenberg.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Several short papers as well as midterm and final exams.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

There are no prerequisites, but it would be well if students had some knowledge of European intellectual currents in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The ability to read musical notation is not required, although some awareness of the various kinds of Western art music since the time of Bach would be helpful. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA GERM

Prerequisites: None

Section 01
Frenzel, P
Times: M.W.... 2:40PM;
Grading Mode: Mixed
Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1
No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997




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